In her speech, Florence Kelley states, “For the sake of the children, for the Republic in which these children will vote after we are dead, and for the sake of our cause, we should enlist the workingmen voters, with us, in this task of freeing the children from toil!” (Kelley 12). On July 22, 1905, Florence Kelley gave a speech before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia. This speech regarded both aspect of woman suffrage and child labor laws, both, she avidly fought for. Kelley calls for action in the recalling of child labor laws, as she introduces several horrifying facts of the hours children work all day and night. She asks women to help her convince men and others to end child labor. In
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In her speech, Kelley states, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy” (Kelley 3). Kelley easily displays the use of pathos in this statement because she is attempting to cause her listeners to feel sympathy and sorrowness for the children. She is appealing to the emotions of the listeners by stating information that causes them to feel guilty. She is making her listeners feel guilty by stating that thousands of little girls are working through the night, while adults are sleeping just to produce a product they will buy. This is also impacting the listeners by making them feel selfish for buying products that little girls stayed up all night making for them to buy. This is an attempt to touch the hearts, minds and emotions of the listeners to not want these little girls to have to go through this any longer. Later in her speech, Kelley states, “They stamp buckles and metal ornaments of all kinds, as well as pins and hat-pins. …show more content…
In her speech, Florence Kelley states, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills … North and South Carolina and Georgia place no restriction upon the work of children at night; and while we sleep little white girls will be working tonight in the mills in those states … In Georgia there is no restriction whatever! A girl of six or seven years, just tall enough to reach the bobbins, may work eleven hours by day or by night. And they will do so tonight, while we sleep” (Kelley 3 and 4). Throughout this stretch of her speech, Kelley repeats “while we sleep” at the beginning or end of several statements to emphasize the phrase. She is repeating the statement “while we sleep” to add the emotion of guilt that she is attempting to impose on her audience. The repetition of “while we sleep” causes the listeners to truly realize that they, as adults are sleeping, while children are working hard and long throughout the night. The repetition is causing it so the listener can not avoid or ignore the problem that is at hand any longer. It is making it so the adults realize they need to wake up and do something about the issue of child labor. Later in her speech, Kelley states, “The children make our shoes in the shoe factories; they knit our stockings, our knitted underwear in the knitting factories. They spin and
In her speech, Kelley states, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy” (Kelley 3). Kelley easily displays the use of pathos in this statement because she is attempting to cause her listeners to feel sympathy and sorrowness for the children. She is appealing to the emotions of the listeners by stating information that causes them to feel guilty. She is making her listeners feel guilty by stating that thousands of little girls are working through the night, while adults are sleeping just to produce a product they will buy. This is also impacting the listeners by making them feel selfish for buying products that little girls stayed up all night making for them to buy. This is an attempt to touch the hearts, minds and emotions of the listeners to not want these little girls to have to go through this any longer. Later in her speech, Kelley states, “They stamp buckles and metal ornaments of all kinds, as well as pins and hat-pins. …show more content…
In her speech, Florence Kelley states, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills … North and South Carolina and Georgia place no restriction upon the work of children at night; and while we sleep little white girls will be working tonight in the mills in those states … In Georgia there is no restriction whatever! A girl of six or seven years, just tall enough to reach the bobbins, may work eleven hours by day or by night. And they will do so tonight, while we sleep” (Kelley 3 and 4). Throughout this stretch of her speech, Kelley repeats “while we sleep” at the beginning or end of several statements to emphasize the phrase. She is repeating the statement “while we sleep” to add the emotion of guilt that she is attempting to impose on her audience. The repetition of “while we sleep” causes the listeners to truly realize that they, as adults are sleeping, while children are working hard and long throughout the night. The repetition is causing it so the listener can not avoid or ignore the problem that is at hand any longer. It is making it so the adults realize they need to wake up and do something about the issue of child labor. Later in her speech, Kelley states, “The children make our shoes in the shoe factories; they knit our stockings, our knitted underwear in the knitting factories. They spin and