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" " This Republic is one , " said Florence Kelley , of the National Consumers ' League , in a paragraph quoted by several Congressional advocates of the Keating Bill , " and we can not go on forever with a favored class of children in the Northwestern States , where there is a requirement that the children shall not work until they are fifteen years of age , and they are kept in school throughout the eighth grade , while in the Southern cotton-manufacturing States there is no compulsory education , and either entire lack of legislation by the State or a collection of nugatory laws .