Shall we say to the children who have worked all day in the factories, "Child labor is a local issue and so are your starvation wages; something to be solved or left unsolved by the jurisdiction of forty-eight States?
Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of addressing child labor and starvation wages as national concerns rather than local issues.
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