When, in the British
Parliament, the suffrage was extended to a million new voters,
even Lord Derby and Disraeli, who were opposed to the measure,
said at once, now, if this class are to vote, we must establish
schools for their education, showing the increased importance of
every man who has a voice in the government, and the new interest
of the rulers in his education. Where all vote all must be
educated; our public school system is the result of this
principle in our government. When women vote, Harvard, Yale, and
Princeton will throw wide open their doors.

Woman is not an anomalous being outside all law, that one need
make any special arguments to prove that what elevates and
dignifies man will educate and dignify woman also. When she
exercises her right of suffrage, she will study the science of
government, gain new importance in the eyes of politicians, and
have a free pass in the world of work. If the masses knew their
power, they could turn the whole legislation of this country to
their own advantage, and drive poverty, rags, and ignorance into
the Pacific Ocean. If they would learn wisdom in the National
Labor Conventions and not sell their votes to political
tricksters, a system of Finance, Trade, and Commerce, and
Co-operation could soon be established that would secure the
rights of Labor and put an end to the concentration of wealth in
the hands of the few. Labor holds the ballot now, let it learn
how to use it. Educated women know how to use it now, let them
have it.

Immediately after the convention in Washington, Mrs. Stanton and Miss
Anthony made their first tour through the Western States, speaking at
various points in Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Ohio, having been
invited to attend several State Conventions. The editorial
correspondence in _The Revolution_, gives a brief summary of this
Western trip, so valuable in its results, in the organization of many
suffrage associations. These meetings aroused the women who had been
absorbed by the war to new and higher duties, showing them that
although the battles of freedom had been fought and settled by the
sword, many questions growing out of the conflict were still to be
adjusted by discussion and legislation, and that, all important as
their work had been in helping to save the life of the nation, there
were other duties