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Jessie S. Rooke and Annie Carvosso Launceston Daily Telegraph — An open letter to the women of Australia (1903)

Those elected to represent us in the Federal Parliament, in a measure stand as embodiments of our principles, because we have been helped by our votes to place them in the high positions of power they occupy. Is it not therefore desirable that we choose wisely and well, that we consider seriously the aptitude of present candidates to advance the temperance cause, to restrict gambling, to stem immorality, and to lend their voices and vote in the Federal Parliament to every measure that will safeguard the highest interests of the people?
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Jessie S. Rooke and Annie Carvosso Launceston Daily Telegraph — An open letter to the women of Australia (1903)

In using this highest expression of citizenship, we must, remember that it is an opportunity for expressing as far as we can our ideals for the State and Commonwealth, and that we are bound together with all classes and conditions people in a social system, which it is each one's duty to improve and make more favorable for each other, and those who shall live after us.
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