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34 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

years must be consumed in education and agitation before the fruits of this harvest of enlightened judicial interpretation can be fully reaped and enjoyed by the toilers throughout the United States. No time should be lost ; the work should begin at once.

Florence Kelley. Hull House, Chicago.

Note. — Cases to which reference is made in the foregoing : Ritchie vs. the People, Illinois, March 15, 1898; Law vs. Rees Publishing Company, Nebraska, June 6, 1894 ; People vs. Hamilton Manufacturing Company, 120 Massachusetts, 383, 1876; Holden vs. Hardy, United States supreme court, February 28, 1896.