sequence. Their right to the ballot does
not rest on the way in which they vote. This, however, must be
admitted, and that is, that there are women in this country who
will vote much more wisely than some men in New York and
Philadelphia. You, my brothers, claim the right to vote because
you are taxed, because you are one of the governed; and you know
if an attempt was made to touch your right to vote, you would
sacrifice everything to defend it. What would money be worth to
you without it? You call it the symbol of your citizenship; and
without it you would be slaves--not free. Listen, then, when a
woman tells you that her freedom is but nominal without it. And
when you ask what women are going to do with it, ask yourselves
what you want it for and what you are going to do with it. There
never was a class of people able to take care of the rights of
another class....

Mrs. LUCY STONE next addressed the meeting briefly: If you have a
man, said she, who is a fool or a felon, you put him over the
line alongside of your mother. Every man of you before he sleeps
should go on his knees to his mother, and beg her pardon, and you
should tell her you are ashamed of yourselves.

The Rev. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, one of the editors of the
_Independent_, rose to answer Mrs. Grew's question--why the
_Tribune_ does not inquire about these ignorant men who are
abusing the franchise? He could inform her. It is because they
can not afford to. They are all politicians there. They want
votes. They can not afford to tell the truth about these ignorant
and vicious voters. He proceeded to give a sad picture of the
political world at present and to show how little conscience,
culture, or common honesty finds its way to the ballot-box. He
didn't think the ballot had done anything for the education of
the ignorant foreigner who had come to this country; he doubted
whether it would do anything for the education of woman. He
didn't wish to be classed with the opposers to woman suffrage,
and yet he didn't see his way clear to espouse it as others on
the platform did. He believed in impartial suffrage--impartial
for men and women, but not universal. He would have men and women
fitted for the suffrage before they exercised it.

GRACE GREENWOOD gave a sketch of society