MARION, MASSACHUSFTTS.
June 27th, 1901.
[DEAR MOTHER:]
In those wonderful years of yours you never thought of
the blessing you were to us, only of what good you could find
in us. All that time, you were helping us and others, and
making us better, happier, even nobler people. From the day
you struck the first blow for labor, in The Iron Mills on
to the editorials in The Tribune, The Youth's
Companion and
The Independent, with all the good the novels, the stories
brought to people, you were always year after year making the
ways straighter, lifting up people, making them happier and
better. No woman ever did better for her time than you and no
shrieking suffragette will ever understand the influence you
wielded, greater than hundreds of thousands of women's votes.
We love you dear, dear mother, and we know you and
may
your coming years be many and as full of happiness for
yourself as they are for us.
RICHARD.
