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<v Speaker 1>Chapter forty seven of Philip Drew, Administrator by Edward House.

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<v Speaker 1>This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, recorded by

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<v Speaker 1>the Progressing America Project. Chapter forty seven, The Wise Disposition

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<v Speaker 1>of a fortune continued. If your fortune were mine, Senator Selwyn,

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<v Speaker 1>said Philip Drew, I would devote it to the uplift

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<v Speaker 1>of women. Their full rights will be accorded them in time,

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<v Speaker 1>but their cause could be accelerated by you, and meantime,

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<v Speaker 1>untold misery and unhappiness averted. Man who is dependent upon

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<v Speaker 1>woman has largely failed in his duty to her, not

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<v Speaker 1>alone as an individual, but as a sex. Laws are enacted,

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<v Speaker 1>unions formed, and what not done for man's protection. But

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<v Speaker 1>the working woman is generally ignored. With your money, and

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<v Speaker 1>even more with your ability, you could change for the

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<v Speaker 1>better the condition of girlhood and womanhood in every city

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<v Speaker 1>and in every factory throughout the land. Largely because they

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<v Speaker 1>are unorganized. Women are overworked and underpaid to such an

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<v Speaker 1>extent that other evils which we deplore follow as a

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<v Speaker 1>natural sequence by proper organization. By exciting public interest and

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<v Speaker 1>enlisting the sympathy and active support of the humane element

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<v Speaker 1>which is to be found in every community, you will

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<v Speaker 1>be able to bring about better conditions. If I were you,

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<v Speaker 1>I would start my crusade in New York and work

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<v Speaker 1>out a model organization there, so that you could educate

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<v Speaker 1>your coadjutors as to the best methods, and then send

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<v Speaker 1>them elsewhere to inaugurate the movement. Moreover, I would not

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<v Speaker 1>confine my energies entirely to America, but Europe and other

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<v Speaker 1>parts of the world should share its benefits. For human

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<v Speaker 1>misery knows no sheltering land. In conjunction with this plan,

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<v Speaker 1>I would carry along still another workingmen have their clubs,

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<v Speaker 1>their societies, and many places for social gathering, but the

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<v Speaker 1>women in most cities have none. As you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>great majority of working girls live in tenements, crowded with

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<v Speaker 1>their families in a room or two, or they live

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<v Speaker 1>in cheap and lonely boarding houses. They have no chance

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<v Speaker 1>for recory after working hours or on holidays unless they

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<v Speaker 1>go to places it would be better to keep away from.

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<v Speaker 1>If men wish to visit them, it must be in

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<v Speaker 1>their bedrooms, on the street, or in some questionable resort.

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<v Speaker 1>How am I to change this condition? Said Selwyn? In

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<v Speaker 1>many ways, said Drew have clubs for them, where they

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<v Speaker 1>may sing, dance, read, exercise, and have their friends visit them.

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<v Speaker 1>Have good women in charge, so that the influence will

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<v Speaker 1>be of the best. Have occasional plays and entertainments for

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<v Speaker 1>them to which they may each invite a friend, and

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<v Speaker 1>make such places pleasanter than others where they might go.

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<v Speaker 1>And all the time protect them, and preferably in a

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<v Speaker 1>way they are not conscious of. By careful attention to

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<v Speaker 1>the reading matter, interesting stories should be selected, each of

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<v Speaker 1>which would bear its own moral quiet, And informal talks

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<v Speaker 1>by the matron and others at opportune times would give

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<v Speaker 1>them an insight into the pitfalls around them, and make

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<v Speaker 1>it more difficult for the human vultures to accomplish their undoing.

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<v Speaker 1>There is no greater stain upon our vaunted civilization continued

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<v Speaker 1>drew than our failure to protect the weak, the unhappy,

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<v Speaker 1>and the abjectly poor of Womenkind. Philosophers still treat of

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<v Speaker 1>it in the abstract. Moralists speak of it now and

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<v Speaker 1>then in an academic way, But it is a subject

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<v Speaker 1>generally shunned and thought hopelessly impossible. It is only here

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<v Speaker 1>and there that a big, noble, hearted woman can be

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<v Speaker 1>found to approach it, and then a hull house is started,

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<v Speaker 1>and under its sheltering roof, unreckoned numbers of innocent hearted

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<v Speaker 1>girls are saved to bless at a later day, its

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<v Speaker 1>patron saint, start hull houses, Senator Selwyn, along with your

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<v Speaker 1>other plan, for it is all of a kind and

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<v Speaker 1>works to the betterment of woman. The vicious, the evil minded,

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<v Speaker 1>and the mature sensualist we will always have with us.

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<v Speaker 1>But stretch out your mighty arm, buttressed as it is

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<v Speaker 1>by fabulous wealth, and save from the lair of the

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<v Speaker 1>libertines the innocent whose only crime is poverty and a

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<v Speaker 1>hopeless despair. In your propaganda for good continued Drew, do

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<v Speaker 1>not overlook the education of mothers to the importance of

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<v Speaker 1>sex hygiene, so that they may impart to their daughters

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<v Speaker 1>the truth, and not let them gather their knowledge from

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<v Speaker 1>the streets. You may go into this great work, Senator Selwyn,

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<v Speaker 1>with the consciousness that you are reaching a condition fraught

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<v Speaker 1>with more consequence to society than any other that confronts it.

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<v Speaker 1>For its ramifications for evil are beyond belief of any

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<v Speaker 1>but the sociologist who has gone to its foundations. End

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<v Speaker 1>of chapter forty seven