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8o The Century of the Child
work by children under fifteen years of
age.
It is urged also that if women are hindered
by legislation from fulfilling the demands of
their occupation, the result will be, not that
they are protected in their occupation, but that
the occupation is protected against them. The
remedy in this case is certainly difficult, but
not impossible to find. Let only the tenth part
of the energy now used in agitation for the
free right of women to labour be employed
in preparing women for such labour as they
are suited to undertake. But even when
this cannot be done protective legislation car-
ries with it its own corrective. It is always
urged that the occupation will be destroyed
by protective legislation. Then new methods
and new machines will be invented to replace
cheap labour power. Those who are pro-
tected often themselves complain that they
suffer economically under protective legisla-
tion, but a long experience will show them
how, through the reciprocal effects of all fac-
tors in production, the temporary failures will
be balanced. A potent remedy for this effect
of protective legislation may be looked for in
the assertion, found in the programmes of all
labour parties, of the right of the unemployed
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