told the policeman she had no intention of paying this
government for the poor privilege of coming here to demand
justice at its hands. While Miss Anthony was as calm as a June
morning, and wholly indifferent in the matter, Mrs. Belva
Lockwood, a practicing attorney in this city, raised such a din
about the policeman's ears that he took to his heels, and didn't
darken the ante-room doors of Lincoln Hall again while the
convention was in session. That license remains _in statu quo_.

Mrs. Stanton said that people were always saying women didn't
want to vote, but the fact that the word "male" was in all the
statute books showed that men knew all the time that they would
vote if they had a chance. But whether they want to or not is a
matter, she claimed, that had nothing to do with the question. It
is time woman had a civil rights bill. No woman can enter
Columbia College, Princeton, Harvard, or Yale. During the century
we have spent $16,000,000 for the boys of New York, and
$1,500,000 for the girls. Are you willing to believe, women, that
your girls are sixteen times less valuable than the boys? What is
the reason of this low valuation of woman? Because she is never
to have anything to do with the State. It is a humiliating thing
to ask, but I insist that the white women of this country be
placed on the same civil and political footing with the colored
men from the plantations of the South. If a woman traveling alone
is belated at night, the hotels slam their doors in her face and
turn her into the street. We want a civil rights bill that shall
make every white woman just as respectable as a negro or a white
man.

Mrs. Blake followed with an anecdote of a girl who applied for
admission to Ann Arbor University. One of the sentences she had
to translate from the Greek was this one from Antigone: "Seeing
then that we are women, ought we not to be modest and not try to
compete with men?" She took the highest honors in Greek, and was
ahead of every man in the class. She prepared a Greek composition
and introduced this sentence: "Seeing then that we are men, ought
we not to be ashamed that we have been vanquished by women?"

Mrs. Stanton thought if girls could come out of colleges and
schools ahead of the boys in their studies, it was pretty cl