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Florence Kelley persuades the audience to fight for childrens rights as mother, due to
child labor laws Kelley sounds very critical about children suffering as she shifts from discussing
the age of the children to the hours that the children are working also Kelley believes that if
women had the right to vote they may have the right to vote against child labor laws because
For the sake of the children (12) without change our society wont progress. Childrens
distinct hardship caused them to be robbed of school life (9), Kelley emphasizes free the
children (12) making it seem as if the children were prisoners of the sweatshops. If the
mothers and teachers of Georgia could vote (9), Kelley targets women more due to the fact
that women are more sensitive than men, and Kelley was determined to change children labor
laws.
Kelley uses guilt in a logical way for her audience in order to show that changes needs to
be done with the childrens terrible hours and the voting rights for women as well as to get a
more productive society. Kelley sensibly uses data based information to state that two million
childrenare earning their bread. (1) Proving logic like that states the childrens ages and that
they are working at a young age, creating guilt, hoping the audience does something about the
childrens loss of childhood. Kelleys usage of facts insures that her audience does something
about childrens underage working. Kelley guilt trips the audience in hope that they respond by
helping to stop the laws of little kids being employed. Discussing where child labor is located,
Kelley rhetorically asks Would the New Jersey Legislature have passed the shameful repeal bill
enabling girls of the fourteen years to work all night, if the mothers of New Jersey were

enfranchised?(9) Kelley answers until the mothers in the great industrial states are
enfranchised we shall none of us be able to free our consciences from participation in this great
evil. (9) In Kelleys rhetorical question she focuses on the location and the women of that
state. The women of New Jersey are not able to vote against the cruelty the children are facing.
If women had the right to vote they may have the right mind to vote against child labor
laws which Florence Kelley is highly critical about. The right to vote can compare to history
when Susan B. Anthony fought for womens right to vote in 1919. Before the 1900s, it was
normal for women not to have the right to vote. Child labor and womens right to vote was all
around the world in the 1800s 1900s. Children worked in sweatshops all day and night and
women had to fight for the right to vote.