dent American woman, educated for and living by the
practice of medicine. I own property, and pay taxes on that
property. I demand of the Government that taxes me that it should
allow me an equal voice with the other tax-payers in the disposal
of the public money. I am certainly not less intelligent than
thousands who, though scarcely able to read their ballots, are
entitled to vote. I am allowed to vote in any bank or insurance
company when I choose to be a stockholder; why ought I not to
vote in the disposition of public money raised by tax, as well as
those men who do not pay taxes, or those who do either?

Answer of the aforesaid--Yah! wow! Hiss-s-s-s!

LUCY STONE: I plead for the right of woman to the control of her
own person as a moral, intelligent, accountable being. I know a
wife who has not set foot outside of her husband's house for
three years, because her husband forbids her doing so when he is
present, and locks her up when he is absent. That wife is gray
with sorrow and despair though now in middle life, but there is
no redress for her wrongs because the law makes her husband her
master, and there is no proof that he beats or bruises her; there
is nothing in his treatment of her that the law does not allow. I
protest against such a law and demand its overthrow; and I
protest against any law which limits the sphere of woman, as a
bar to her intellectual development. You say she _can not_ do
this and that, but if so, what need of a law to prevent her? You
say her intellectual achievements have not equaled those of man;
but I answer, that she has had no motive, no opportunity for such
achievement. Close all the avenues, take away all the incitement
for man's ambition, and he would do no more than woman does.
Grant her freedom, education, and opportunity, and she will do
what God intended she should do, no less, no more. Men! you
dwarf, you wrong yourselves in restraining and fettering the
intellectual development of woman! I ask for her liberty to do
whatever moral and useful deed she proves able to do--why should
I ask in vain?

Answer by time-serving Press: Men, Women, and Bloomers! Faugh!
Bah!

ANTOINETTE BROWN: I plead that the mother may not be legally
robbed of her children. I know a mother who was left a widow