Florence Kelley, a U.S. social worker, gives a speech before the convention of The National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia addressing child labor and how it could be outlawed if woman suffrage was passed as legislature. Kelley was an advocate for women gaining the right to vote and for children being forbidden to work in harsh conditions. She uses logical appeal and guilt people to show how child labor is a practice that can be prohibited were women to have the right to vote.
The author evokes an emotion of guilt upon her audience by stating how children are working in conditions that are harsh and unsafe. Florence Kelley refers to the children and their predicament by describing, “ Tonight while we sleep several thousand