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(Mr. Webb, of North Carolina, recently voted against a bill to restrict child labour. But he said in his anti-suffrage speech: "The most sacred and potential spot on earth is the fireside shrine, and over this shrine the devoted mother presides, the uncrowned queen.")

, home is a shrine for a mother, it may be, But a shrine is no place for a promising baby. Small children are fond of disturbance and riot, But a shrine should be sacred and lonely and quiet.

O, come all ye factory owners, combine; Though the world misinterpret your noble design, Keep children away from a spot so divine, So potential and pure as the fireside shrine.

O woman, O mother, we love and respect you,