The decrease, often by leaps and bounds in the number of children under years employed in factories, a decrease that is shown in an astonishing manner by the English statistics of the last years, was for the most part, according to the evidence of the factory inspectors themselves, the work of the certifying surgeons, who overstated the age of the children, agreeably to the capitalist's greed for exploitation, and the sordid trafficking needs of the parents.