Pursuing this further, Kelley uses pathos to gain sympathy from the audience for young and innocent children when she repeatedly states “tonight while we sleep” (18-35). The idea that “while we sleep” children are working in horrible work conditions so that the audience may have shirts to clothe their backs and shoes to warm their feet instills pity and disgust in the audience (35). When Kelley states “we do not wish this” (78), she is sympathizing with the audience by including herself in this statement. In addition, expressing to the audience the fact that “we are almost powerless” indicates there is something the audience and herself can do to take a stand (79-80). She asks the audience, “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? (59-63). Kelley asks this question to make the audience realize being mothers themselves, if they where able to vote such laws would favor the children. Kelley continues, by asking the audience “What can we do to free our consciences?” (85). In doing so, she wants the audience to think about the question to engage them into a very important line in this speech: “We can enlist the workingmen on behalf of our enfranchisement…as we
Pursuing this further, Kelley uses pathos to gain sympathy from the audience for young and innocent children when she repeatedly states “tonight while we sleep” (18-35). The idea that “while we sleep” children are working in horrible work conditions so that the audience may have shirts to clothe their backs and shoes to warm their feet instills pity and disgust in the audience (35). When Kelley states “we do not wish this” (78), she is sympathizing with the audience by including herself in this statement. In addition, expressing to the audience the fact that “we are almost powerless” indicates there is something the audience and herself can do to take a stand (79-80). She asks the audience, “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? (59-63). Kelley asks this question to make the audience realize being mothers themselves, if they where able to vote such laws would favor the children. Kelley continues, by asking the audience “What can we do to free our consciences?” (85). In doing so, she wants the audience to think about the question to engage them into a very important line in this speech: “We can enlist the workingmen on behalf of our enfranchisement…as we