Brianna Lehning INJUSTICES It is not fair that grief should go abound That the poor women of our country are treated as if they were no better than slaves. Every attempt woman has made to strike off the shackles of slavery has ended in defeat. No matter what a man does to a woman, she must not resist. She can never be free until she is mistress of her own body. The lowest of the working women is the factory girl For in the eyes of her overseer she is but a brute, a slave, to be beaten, pinched and pushed around. Never can she express her opinion She is to be bound by to her employer because of poverty. Great injustices are done to her character: She is repressed and subjected to influences that must destroy her purity and self-respect. She displays the same strenuous endeavor, self-sacrifice, and readiness to meet death every day. She suffers enough in one day to last her the rest of her life No, her life can not have been an easy one. There are also girls who do not work, who live in comfortable homes, and yet are found on the street; married women who prostitute themselves in order to have luxuries. They sacrifice their souls for these indulgences, To them have been left the evil things Everywhere want and degradation can be found There can never be a free humanity until woman is freed from ignorance and poverty We must rise up, O’men to save.