Puzzle Paragraph

This week, we were asked to puzzle our post together around the following set of words and punctuations
Words to use: 

1. ;
2. Once upon a time
3. everyone
4. today
5. rhetoric
6. pink elephants
7. :
8. Jesus

Today, both women's suffrage and the elimination of child labor have become a reality in the U.S., but during 19th and 20th, the thought of either becoming reality was probably as far fetched as pink elephants waltzing down the streets of D.C.. By opening with the plight of children, Florence Kelley elicited the sympathy of her audience and, when linking it to the enfranchisement of women, easily advanced the path to women's suffrage. Thus, Kelley's masterful use of rhetoric in her speech serves two purposes: to bring about a "line of action" that will reverse the injustices of child labor, and to generate support for the women's suffrage movement. Kelley's use of sarcastic tones and vivid imagery illustrates the "pitiful privilege" given to the "little beasts of burden" that are forced into toiling during the wake of night. Perhaps the most compelling argument against child labor that Kelley provides is her usage of statistics and pathos. The "two million children" employed into this system are undoubtedly a great source of resentment for Kelley; their cruel working conditions and common attributes within their work link everyone in the audience, mothers, daughters, wives, maids, together. Along with linking the end of child labor to the enfranchisement of women, Kelley uses men’s perception of the female role to argue for women’s rights. Once upon a time, most men believed it was a woman's job to take care of children, and thus Kelley's logic that giving suffrage to woman will lead to eliminated, or at least bettered, child labor systems is rather hard to refute. So Kelley's argument has a convoluted route but it undeniably echoes the teachings of Jesus and the equality for men, women, adults, children, and everyone else.