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Title: Beauty for ashes
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bacon, Albion Fellows, 1865-1933
Subjects: Working class Tenement houses Poor
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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. There is no need to dwell upon the details of thatsession. Trip after trip I made home, and backagain, waiting for the bill to come to its third read-ing. It was a severe winter. Snow storms delayedthe trains, and I was sick half the time from ex-posure in icy sleepers and from going to and fromthe state house, in sleet or rain. But even when Igot up out of bed to go, in response to telegrams, thefamily only cheered me on, and helped me to start.They knew how much it meant. I remember mymothers disgust at the stupid men who couldntsee the need of a state-wide law. Even the maid wasglad to contribute her important part, and the chil-dren cheerfully volunteered, Well pray for the billevery night. There was one, too, who was ready topray, pay and fight. Why shouldnt a woman dare,with such backing? If we could only have fought! But we worked,watched and waited, waited in an unending night-mare of difficulties and delays. The end of the ses-sion was at hand, and our bill had not yet been
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Those who need the bill most cannot come I DEFEAT 253 allowed to come to its third reading. Four times ithad been made a special order, and four times therules had been set aside, and the order broken, onthe plea of party measures still unattended to. Andstill a poll showed a good majority in favour of thebill. Im tired of this guerilla warfare, this beingstruck in the back by some one hiding in the dark,thundered Senator Durre. I dare you to come outand fight in the open, and let the bill go to a votenow. The last day came, and our friends in the Senaterallied for a last charge. Senator Durre fasted thatday. He made me think of a lion who was beingmade ready for human flesh, as he paced the aisles,with his jaw squarely set, and red lightning in hiseye. The panic rush of the last business swept over theSenate all day. At the end of the day we got ahearing. Every cause and every interest has hadits hearing in this Senate, declared Senator Tilden, but the cause of the poor has been push

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