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Waisbrooker, Lois. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

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me to put that grain into the ground with the groans of that dying family in my ears, but it would be better to let them starve than p] in hundred families should starve a year hence. And so of the work of reformers, and so of the menas they spend in plastering even the [] of the old.

A thousand [] expended directly [] them might [] half a [] of our unfortunate sisters from an [] [], expended in the [] of knowledge, in efforts for the redemption of woman as a sex, in [] and sending a [] lecturer into the field, thus [] it would save thousands from becoming outcasts in the next generation. Which shall we do?

But what shall we do for those who would [] such a life if they could?

Tell them that help must come from themselves. Tell them that [] will not help them [] they demand it will not respect them till they force respect. Let those who wish to leave such a life, unite [] the [] that they [] []in [], [] [] of industry and support themselves. One such effort successfully carried out, by the Magdalen herself, would [] [] [] and enfranchise this [] of women from the [] that holds them, than a thousand