A man's labour is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilise it, to prevent its wasteful ...squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilisation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land bei...ng abundant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good govern...ment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their hea...ds together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labour bore fruit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread d...epends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifeti...me of pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account... of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Suffragists, hear this last call to a suffrage convention! The officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association hereby call their State auxiliaries, through their elected delegates, to meet in annual convention at Chicago, Congress Hotel, February 12th to 18th, inclusive. In other days our members and friends have been summoned to annual conventions to disseminate the propaganda for their common cause, to cheer and encourage each other, to strengthen their organized influence, to counsel as to ways and means of insuring further progress. At this time they are called to rejoice that the struggle is over, the aim achieved and the women of the nation about to enter into the enjoyment of their hard-earned political liberty. Of all the conventions held within the past fifty-one years, this will prove the most momentous. Few people live to see the actual and final realization of hopes to which they have devoted their lives. That privilege is ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were asked what are the greatest obstacles to the speedy enfranchisement of women I should answer: There are three; the first... is militarism.... The second obstacle is the unconscious, unmeasured influence upon the estimate in which women as a whole are held that emanates from that most debasing of our evil institutions, prostitution.... [ellipsis in source] The third great cause is the inertia in the growth of democracy which has come as a reaction following the aggressive movements that with possibly ill-advised haste enfranchised the foreigner, the Negro and the Indian. Perilous conditions, seeming to follow from the introduction into the body politic of vast numbers of irresponsible citizens, have made the nation timid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »