ieved that he voted the right way. It is said
again that it would introduce division into the family, and that
a division about politics is the most bitter thing in the world.
No; there is one thing in which a difference is more bitter than
politics. What? Religion. There is no such diverging influence in
this world as a difference in religion. Yet when I look into
these matters I find that families all through the community are
divided on the subject of religion. I have known scores and
scores of families in which there were Baptists and persons of
other denominations, and they found no trouble in getting along.
You will always find where husband and wife can not agree, they
will peaceably differ. There is no danger of their ever
disturbing the family relations by that.

We are still holding, it seems, the old barbaric notion of the
inferiority of woman. Every higher class preaches, preaches,
preaches--about the inferiority of everything and everybody below
it. All the world believes that the nation in which the man is
born is the highest nation in the world. Why, we believe that we
Americans are the biggest people in the world, the Englishman
believes the English people to be the highest in the world. There
is not the least doubt in the mind of a Frenchman that he was God
Almighty's first favorite, and so on, nation by nation. So it is
with classes. So, also, it seems to be with man. All the men in
the world join hands together and agree that whatever may be the
classification as between man and man, all men are infinitely
superior to woman. Now I hold that in some things woman is
inferior to man, and in some things greatly superior to man, and
that in the general average she is fully his equal. A woman is
God's chief engineer in the home. She ought to have a clear eye
and a deep heart and a wide understanding. You can't make a woman
too broad, too strong, too high, too deep in all generous
enthusiasm for the purposes of the family, for it takes strong
women to bring up strong men and strong women. In regard to this
matter I wonder that people should attempt to separate so much by
guess. Hear people say, "What will be the effect?" As if this
thing was not already demonstrated--as if history was not already
a picture of what the result will b