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1776 – The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.[8]
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world’s first collected descriptions of what builds nations’ wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets.[1]
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Born On This Day
1863 – Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (d. 1950)[57]
Mary Elizabeth Harris Armor (sometimes spelled Armour; March 9, 1863 – November 5, 1950) was an American suffragist. She was the state president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and is often credited for the passing of prohibition legislature in Georgia.
Personal life
Mary Elizabeth Harris was born on March 9, 1863 in Georgia to physician William Harris. She married Walter Florence Armor in August 1883.[1]
Career
Armor often used the suffragette movement to advocate for prohibition in Georgia. Between 1903 and 1915, while serving in state and national offices with the WCTU, she lobbied for Congress to “protect women and children especially through prohibition legislature.”[2] As a result, Armor is often credited for the passing of prohibition legislature in Georgia.[3] Upon the passing of a State-wide prohibition law in 1907, the newspaper Atlanta Constitution described her as the voice “that aroused the Christian conscience of the State and put it on the march.”[4] She predicted that “brewery stock in this country will not be worth as much as Confederate money was in 1865.”[5]
Armor was often nicknamed the “Georgia Cyclone.”[6] She lectured and campaigned across the United States for the prohibition cause. Her speeches were so moving she was sometimes referred to as “Joan of Arc.” In one instances, she raised $7,000 for WCTU in one night through an empowering speech.[7] As a result of her campaigning, Armor was the recipient of an honorary law degree from Wesleyan College in 1918.[8] During the 1920s, she travelled to New Zealand to promote prohibition.[9][10]
However, Armor and the WCTU campaigned for prohibition on a racial based platform. On their maps of “wet and dry” counties came with the caption “Shall the Blacks rule the Whites?” As part of her movement, Armor attempted to get Fred Loring Seely of The Atlanta Georgian to allow the WCUT to publish prohibition propaganda in his newspapers. He refused as his newspaper was presenting the prohibition as an assertion of masculinity.[11] Upon the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, she joined the League of Women Voters.[1]
Armor died on November 5, 1950.[1]
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