r of politics that it is a _prima facie_ evidence of littleness
to hold office under our form of government? Great men get into office
sometimes, but what this country needs is men that will do what we
tell them to do. This nation--where the people rule--is governed by the
people, for the people, and so long as it is, then the office-holder is
but the servant of the people, and the Bible says the servant cannot
be greater than the master. The Bible says, "He that is sent cannot be
greater than Him who sent Him." The people rule, or should rule, and if
they do, we do not need the greater men in office. If the great men in
America took our offices, we would change to an empire in the next ten
years.

I know of a great many young women, now that woman's suffrage is coming,
who say, "I am going to be President of the United States some day."
I believe in woman's suffrage, and there is no doubt but what it is
coming, and I am getting out of the way, anyhow. I may want an office by
and by myself; but if the ambition for an office influences the women in
their desire to vote, I want to say right here what I say to the young
men, that if you only get the privilege of casting one vote, you don't
get anything that is worth while. Unless you can control more than
one vote, you will be unknown, and your influence so dissipated as
practically not to be felt. This country is not run by votes. Do
you think it is? It is governed by influence. It is governed by the
ambitions and the enterprises which control votes. The young woman that
thinks she is going to vote for the sake of holding an office is making
an awful blunder.

That other young man gets up and says, "There are going to be great men
in this country and in Philadelphia." "Is that so? When?" "When there
comes a great war, when we get into difficulty through watchful waiting
in Mexico; when we get into war with England over some frivolous deed,
or with Japan or China or New Jersey or some distant country. Then
I will march up to the cannon's mouth; I will sweep up among the
glistening bayonets; I will leap into the arena and tear down the flag
and bear it away in triumph. I will come home with stars on my shoulder,
and hold every office in the gift of the nation, and I will be great."
No, you won't. You think you are going to be made great by an office,
but remember that if you are not great before you get the office, you
won't be great when you secure it. It will only be a b