s' health. Other reformers, such as Robert Owen, were against child labor for children under the age of ten. Robert Owens thought that it was injurious to children under ten to be working in the factories, and that it was not beneficial to the proprietors. Owens witnessed the unsatisfactory working conditions in one of the factories at New Lanark and, as a result, adopted regulations to put an end to such an injurious system. He toured the country making speeches, hoping to encourage other factory workers to treat their child workers as he did. In his speeches, Owens argued that he was creating a "new moral world, a world from which the bitterness of divisive sectarian religion would be banished" (Spartacus).
             While there were many who were against child labor during this time, there were also those who were loyal supporters. Edward Baines, the son of Edward Baines, was born in 1800. Edward Baines was the editor and sole proprietor of the newspaper, The Leeds Mercury. Although he strongly disapproved of slave trade, he was totally opposed to factory legislation. He favored some aspects of parliamentary reform, but did not feel the working class should be given the vote. In 1835, Baines wrote the book History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain which criticized those who were against child labor for over-exaggerating what life was like in the textile factories. He claimed that many of the children were born in bad health and "sink under factory labor, as they would under any kind of labor" (Spartacus).
             Samuel Greg was also a supporter of child labor. Greg was born into a wealthy family in Belfast in 1758. He was a textile merchant who owned the Quarry Bank Mill. In 1790, Samuel Greg became convinced that the answer to his labor problem was to build an apprentice house and purchase children from workhouses. These children came from Wilmslow and Macclesfield, and as far as Liverpool and London. Children made up 50% of...