ich those who are able and willing to work can choose their own
fellow-workers and adopt the center of activity which best
corresponds with their feeling and with their homes. The
experience of two years has confirmed our opinion of the
propriety of the measures then adopted. We made no attempt to
cajole or allure those who did not belong to us.

I am sure that as our work in common has gone on we have grown in
good-will. We are fighting our battle still, but do not see our
victory yet. We are not opposing men and women, but the enemies
of men and women--ignorance, prejudice, and injustice. Many
people bring into a new movement the whole intensity and unreason
of their personal desires and discontents, and the train of
progress must carry all this luggage along with it. Woman
suffrage means equality in and out of marriage.

Mrs. Howe referred to the fact that women had been educated not
to depend upon themselves, and drew a graphic picture of their
condition should the tide of prosperity ebb from under them.
Remember, too, I pray you, that power to do ill can not be denied
without including the power to do good. The question as to
whether men, in case that women should vote, would be less polite
to women, was touched upon. The speaker said, "that if ladies
wish to retain this deference, they certainly pay a dear price
for it." The speaker was opposed to arguing that the right of
woman suffrage was guaranteed in the XIV. and XV. Amendments. I
go further back and find the spirit of all liberality in every
liberal clause, and the spirit of all freedom.

ROBERT DALE OWEN followed, and said woman suffrage was the only
means of rectifying the injustice of the laws. His attention was
first called to the value of suffrage when he endeavored to get a
modification of the property laws for married women in 1836. As a
member of the Indiana Legislature, he tried three successive
years in vain to obtain for wives a right to their own earnings.
He was fifteen years in effecting it. When the law was passed
securing married women in their earnings, one of his
fellow-members solemnly warned him that homes would be broken up
and family happiness ruined, and that for all this unmeasured
misery he would hereafter be held responsible. But the law still
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