Addams argues that opponents of child labor should promote the positive results of ending child labor on children and society. The speech opened the Tenth Annual Conference on Child Labor in New Orleans.

Addams addresses the attendees in the opening speech for the start of the Tenth Annual Conference on Child Labor in New Orleans.

Newspaper summary of Addams' talk describing child labor in the Southern factories.

Shankle writes Addams about her work with her community's settlement, agricultural school, and local families.

Addams encloses E. J. Shankle's letter to Breckinridge, because she is so good at handling Southern matters.

Reed praises Addams for her new series of articles in McClure's Magazine and vents his frustration with the business class and their lack of care for the working class.

Addams' argues that mob violence, and particularly lynching against African Americans in the South, erodes respect for the all among all groups and accomplishes nothing positive for any community that condones it.