is opinions, the
moment the carpet was unrolled, the carpet knight would step out,
and his first remark to his wife would probably be, "My dear, you
can now return to the kitchen. I will do the voting, because I
have the physical strength to stand by the Government."

Woman, in time of war, has her mission, as man has his. It is
idle to talk about her "sphere"--as her sphere is generally
interpreted. Even in the most disastrous war, the mission of
woman is plainly to be discerned in deeds of self-denial and
self-sacrifice. Women have worked themselves literally to death
through the toils and exposures of war. Of all the semblances of
argument that can be brought against the right of woman to the
suffrage--of all the figments of the brain that men devise, there
is nothing idler than to object to this right on the ground that
suffrage and bearing arms should go together. In times of war the
women of our country did aid and comfort and bless our suffering
armies, and hundreds of returned soldiers owe their restoration
to health and life to the ministering labors and devotedness of
some woman. Such men will not use the argument that woman should
not have the suffrage because she can not bear arms.

The ballot of woman is needed to render our civilization more
complete and harmonious. I knew a lady who rode with the first
party of ladies over the mountains into a mining town of
California. The whole population turned out to see the novel
spectacle. What did they say when the women came among them? Did
they say, "Go away from here; this is no place for women; you
will unsex yourself?" Oh, no! The first sound heard from that
silent and expectant throng of miners was a rough voice calling
out, "Three cheers for the ladies who have come to make us
better!" It is this coming of the new influence--not a purer
influence merely, for doubtless a great part of what is called
the purity of woman is but the purity of ignorance, that rough
contact with the world would seem to endanger--it is not merely
the greater purity, but it is because she is the other part of
the human race; it is because without her we have fathers in the
State, but no mothers; it is because without her in our
legislative halls, we have laws that take from the mother the
right to e