The Voices (novel)

Described as a novel for the 1920 United States presidential election, it revolves around a present-day Joan, not of Ark, but of one who listened to small voices within and became, in consequence, a leader in industrial and political happenings.

[1] "Equal rights to all — unions and non-unions, organized and unorganized labor", declares the heroine, her intelligence stimulated by the mystic voices that speak to her from out the impalpable air.

[3] At the great mass meetings, held in the Civic Auditorium by this San Francisco woman of public wisdom and private honor, both sides of the picture are presented to her audiences.

At another great mass meeting in the Civic Auditorium, at which Joan Lynn answers many questions and sways her audience, she sketches for them the industrial and political conditions in Europe in the Middle Ages when the guilds excluded apprentices.

[2] Joan Lynn is a stenographer, born amidst an industrial population, educated at the University of California, and inspired to utter truths that indicate the panacea for various governmental and economic defects to be discussed in the forthcoming Presidential contest.

Protective tariff, an eight-hour day, a minimum wage, restriction of immigration, strikes, deportation of anarchists, and the proper teaching of Americanization were all discussed by Joan Lynn.