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The weight of evidence that may he presumed to be worthy of confidence and consideration would seem to leave no doubt that the normal, the God-appointed work of woman, wherein lie her full equality, her peerage, her glory, and her power, is that of the home and the mother, the rearer, the trainer, the blessing of man.
To the “ noble army of martyrs,” the tens of thousands of working-women, of all ages, in America to-day, who patiently and hopefully toil on year by year, under the abnormal burdens a disjointed and unreflective society imposes, I pay the tribute of my earnest sympathy, my admiration, and my humble effort. I am assured, that, out of the labyrinth of perplexity that has entangled the question of woman’s rights, there will sooner or later be evolved this certainty: that the highest moral and physical well-being of a race demands that there shall be nothing in its conditions of life and labor that shall injure the richness and purity of the chief source whence its existence and its best influences come.