now crowded into days. Who will venture to judge the future by
any political almanac of by-gone times? I can say with old Thomas
Carlyle, "One strong thing I find here below, the just thing, the
true thing." And no man or party is strong enough, no earthly
power is strong enough to stay the grand march of events through
which the hand of God is visibly guiding the Republic to
universal liberty, and through that to enduring prosperity and
peace.

Mr. ARNELL, of Tennessee, said--_Mrs. Hooker and Ladies_: You
have been kind enough to refer to me by name. I think you have
been over-generous in your estimation of my poor services. If I
have accomplished anything, no matter how inconsiderable, for
your cause, I greatly rejoice. Yet, in reality, it is my cause as
much as yours--a man's cause as much as a woman's; for the
inquiry you have raised is a great fundamental question, broad as
humanity itself. I thank you for your wide interpretation of the
invitation I gave you to occupy the Committee-room of Education
and Labor. You have rightly touched its true meaning. The doors
were opened hopefully, invitingly to you as the advance-guard of
American women, who are soon, I trust, to take equal part with
their brothers, husbands and fathers in the government of this
great and free Republic.

There is a bit of history connected with this room of Education
and Labor. A hard-working woman was once driven from it by vote
of the House of Representatives. She carried her work across the
ocean, rested it under the Italian skies, until it blossomed into
everlasting stone. Then she brought it back. A great admiring
city and the self-same men who had voted her out, marveled and
said, "Well done, woman." Her success is a triumph for woman.
Meantime you, representing, arguing a higher cause than Art, had
found a footing in this very apartment from which she had been
turned out. This was a higher triumph. The amiable New York
_Tribune_, chuckling over a false rumor that you were denied its
further use, has misstated the facts. The _Tribune_ only
advertised its own narrow, pretentious wishes.

In bringing the proposition before Congress to pay women the same
price as men for the same work performed, I desired not only to
help those spirited, deserving w