ed.
Right, sooner or later, will come into its kingdom. Women
are no longer children to be frightened by imaginary bears,
neither will they be satisfied with playthings, who ask for
better. The distance between men and women is lessening
every year. Colleges are bringing them on to the same plane,
and the agitation of this question of woman's right to a
voice in the government, has given and is giving men new
ideas respecting the strength of woman's intellect and her
determination to be more than a doll in this busy world.

Whether we are made voting citizens or not, let no man
beguile himself with the thought that the old order of
things will be restored. They who step into light and
freedom will not retrace their steps. This end is equality,
civil, religious and political--there is no stopping-place
this side of that. My best wishes are with you and yours.

MIRIAM M. COLE.

Miss HULDAH B. LOUD, of East Abington, Mass., was the first
speaker: Scorned by the Democrats and fawned upon by the
Republicans, who profess but to betray, under these circumstances
we come again to the fight. We believe in liberty in the highest
degree, such liberty as our fathers fought for, and this struggle
will go on until that liberty is gained; liberty is the pursuit
of life, health, and happiness. We look in vain for honesty in
political life. We turn in disgust from the meaningless
platitudes of the Republican Convention at Worcester, from the
incidental admission of a plank in the platform which means
nothing.

If we would be recognized as a power by political parties, every
suffragist should withhold his ballot, and thus politicians would
be brought to their senses. If we labor for anything, if we mean
anything, we mean woman suffrage, and let us not give a moral or
material support, politically, to the man who is not in harmony
with the principle of free suffrage in its broadest significance.

We are called unwomanly for our advocacy of this priceless boon
to women. We are willing that our womanly character should stand
by the side of those who oppose this movement. Do you call Lucy
Stone, the woman reformer of the world, with