The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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Before them, in another time,

Their worthy fathers came....

And no man tells his son the truth,

Lest he should speak of sin;

And every man cries, “Woe, alas!”

And every man goes in.

Bringing the Light

(From “A Bed of Roses”)

By W. L. George

(Contemporary English novelist. The life-story of a woman wage-earner who is driven by the pressure of want to a career of shame. In the following scene she argues with a suffrage-worker, who has called upon her, in ignorance of her true character)