Excerpt from Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland, 1907

In submitting the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland, and the fourth during my administration of the office, I feel a pardonable pride in the results as shown herein. While my predecessor in office undoubtedly broke the ground for much of the good work accomplished by the Bureau, I feel that during the last four years the State has more than been recompensed for its outlay of money by the splendid results accomplished by the work of the Department. This applies not only to the enforcement of the new laws, but to the perfecting of the system in the office. Of course, I well understand that there may be criticisms of the methods of the Department and the manner of performing its work, but I also feel that these criticisms arise more often from lack of knowledge of what has been accomplished and the failure of those who criticise to make inquiries into and understand the work that has been performed by those employed by the State in the performance of their duties. At all times we have courted inspection of our work, and welcome the suggestions and criticisms of those interested in the Department, but realizing that my duties not only call upon me for the enforcement of the laws, but also recognition of the fact that the intent of the Legislature was, and is, as far as possible, not to disturb the existing business conditions, which might nullify the efforts of our merchants and manufacturers in competing with those States where progressive laws were not enforced, and whose employers and employes were left absolutely free to do as they pleased, irrespective of the effect upon the community or its future citizenship. This is particularly so with reference to the enforcement of Chapter 192, Acts of 1906, known as the Child-Labor Law.

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