ABSTRACT
We are separated by many barriers of caste, creed, and education. How vast is the interval which divides the rich lady from the poor mill-worker; but these divisions, though they are very real, are not deep or high. Weare too much apart, but they do not separate the hearts of womanhood that beat in unity, nor the sunlight of God's justice that shines down upon the rich and poor alike. In the name of this common womanhood we are gathered here to-night, rich and poor, educated and untaught, to raise our voices altogether to ask for justice. The richest woman to-night that is the mother of children loves them dearly; the poorest does no less. And the laws which wrong the mother's love are an outrage on the commoh womanhood by the bond of which we have all been drawn together.
