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Kelley was determined to indicate that every single person in a society is equally responsible for the atrocious conditions of child labor. For example, Kelley says, “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 puts this colossal responsibility on adults and reveals their inherent unawareness of their influence on the matter thus successfully impugning her audience’s morals and hopes to instigate a stronger stance from women in the