the world by passing the most humane, righteous, just, and
liberal laws, carrying them out on the plan of tempering justice with
mercy; but in matters concerning the interests and welfare of the Gipsies
we are, as I have shown previously, a long way in the rear. We have
passed laws to improve the condition of the agricultural labourer's
child, children working in mines, children working in factories,
performing boys, climbing boys, children working in brick-yards, children
working and living on canal-boats, and a thousand others; but we have
done nothing for the poor Gipsy child or its home. In things pertaining
to their present and eternal welfare they have asked for bread and we
have given them a stone; and they have asked for fish and we have given
them a serpent. We have allowed them to wander and lose themselves in
the dark wilds of sin and iniquity without shedding upon their path the
light of Gospel truths or the blessings of education; and to-day the
Gipsy children are dying, where thousands have died before, among the
brambles and in the thicket of bad example, ignorance, and evil training,
into which we have allowed them to stray blinded by the evil associations
of Gipsy life.

"An aged woman walks along,
Her piercing scream is on the air,
Her head and streaming locks are bare,
She sadly sobs 'My child, my child!'"

A faint voice is heard in the distance calling out--

"My dying daughter, where art thou?
Call on our gods and they shall come."

"So mote it be."

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