To balance gold and pain?
Need the Vote for the Children
By M. Carey Thomas
Women need a vote for the sake of children. No state, modern or ancient, has ever cared properly for its children. Children are at the present time horribly neglected in every country, even when they are not, as in many states of the United States, horribly abused. All women whatever their nationality care more than all men for the welfare of all children. This is true even of female animals in the animal world. It is supremely true in our human world. Children are, and always will be, the special interest of women. Wherever women already vote, their influence is felt immediately and persistently in ameliorative measures for the protection, reformation, and education of little children. No one with any knowledge of the facts can deny that the political power of women is exercised on behalf of children. We are now learning that children should be the chief concern of our present civilization because in them lies the hope of the future. For the sake of children, women must vote.
Fettered Little Children
By Mary E. Carbutt
(In “The Progressive Woman.” Contemporary. Prominent California Club Woman.)
Oh blind and cruel nation,
In your selfish race for wealth,