Today, youth like myself are allowed to pursue education and get jobs when they are willing. When the youth do end up getting their first jobs, we have limited hours. However, this wasn't so in 1905. Florence Kelley's famous speech in 1905 is based on the laws of child labor. Florence Kelley is a social activist for children and women.Florence Kelly speech is for the factories and governments putting these kids through misery. Florence Kelly argues that child labor is corrupt and it's not justified for children to pave a way for themselves by working day and night. Children should reserve the right to earn an education instead of being forced to work in unsettling, dangerous workplaces. To start off, Florence Kelly argues that the child labor …show more content…
Now, therefore, in New Jersey, boys and girls after their 14th birthday get to enjoy the pitiful privilege of working all night long.” (6) Florence Kelly positions Alabama good law against New Jersey's unfair rule. She also goes as far as to describe it as a pitiful privilege. She uses this decision to get the audience motivated to change these unfair conditions. Despite being a young age, you work all day in New Jersey at as low as 14. In addition, Florence Kelly goes on to talk about industrial state laws: In Pennsylvania until last May it was lawful for children, 13 years of age, to work twelve hours at night. A little girl, on her thirteenth birthday, could start away from her home at half past five in the afternoon, carrying her pail of luncheon as happier people carry their midday luncheon, and could work in the mill from six at night until six in the morning, without violating any law of the common heath. (7) Florence Kelley uses the choice of commonwealth to show that everything is going against the commonwealth of these …show more content…
“Would the New Jersey legislature have passed that shameful repeal bill enabling girls of fourteen years to work all night, if the mothers in New Jersey were enfranchised? Until the mothers in the great industrial states are enfranchised, we shall none of us be able to free our concessions from participation in this great evil. (9) Florence Kelley uses the word enfranchised to show these women are denied their natural rights and furthermore cannot take action in freeing their children from their burden. And that all that take no action in this must feel the dread of showing no participation in saving their children. Finally Florence Kelly talks about how these children who are working so hard are the face of their future and if they don't take a stand now then this will never change.“For the sake of the children, for the Republic in which these children would vote for after we are dead, and for the sake of our cause, we should enlist the workingmen voters with us, in this task of freeing children from toil.” Florence Kelly alludes to the Republic that these adults who fought so hard, are what they leave behind for these young kids to vote for once there is no more. ready. Then the sand is