What Jane Addams thinks about government

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American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935); Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1931; author of Democracy and Social Ethics.

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2 dated positions, c. 1906, in their own words. Our reading of what Jane Addams has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1906

   Our readingThe government itself should have won the devotion immigrants gave to the labour union

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   Their wordsThis devotion, this comradeship, and this fine esprit de corps should have been won by the Government itself from these newly arrived, scared, and untrained citizens.

   ↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book

3. c. 1906

   Our readingBearing arms as the test of a voter seems no longer fitted to the modern city

   Their wordsBut rival cities have long since ceased to settle their claims by force of arms, and we shall have to admit, I think, that this early test of the elector is no longer fitted to the modern city, whatever may be true, in the last analysis, of the basis for the Federal Government.

   ↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book