seventeen years while it was a Territory, until
Congress abolished it for political reasons. But when Utah was
about to be admitted to statehood the men in framing their
constitution restored the suffrage to women. Would they have done
so if it had proved injurious to their homes? Impossible! You
have eight Senators and seven Representatives in Congress from
the four States where women have the full franchise. Ask them if
it has demoralized their homes or the homes of their
fellow-citizens, and your fears, if you have any, will be forever
set at rest....

Believe me, gentlemen, it is not patriotism, it is not a passion
for justice, it is not loyalty to sister women, it is not a
desire to better her country, which will make a woman neglect her
husband. Society women, superficial, selfish, silly women, the
butterflies of the ballroom, the seekers for every new sensation,
the worldly-minded aspirants for social position, these are the
women who neglect their homes; and not the brave, earnest,
serious-minded, generous, unselfish women who ask for the ballot
in order by its use to make the world better. In the twentieth
century, already dawning, we shall have a republican family in a
republican nation, a true democracy, a government of the people,
by the people and for the people, men and women co-operating
harmoniously on terms of absolute equality in the home and in the
State.

The Senate Hearing closed with the paper of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton on the Significance and History of the Ballot, which was in
part as follows:

The recent bills on Immigration, by Senators Lodge of
Massachusetts and Kyle of South Dakota, indirectly affect the
interests of woman. Their proposition to demand a reading and
writing qualification on landing strikes me as arbitrary and
equally detrimental to our mutual interests. The danger is not in
their landing and living in this country, but in their speedy
appearance at the ballot-box and there becoming an impoverished
and ignorant balance of power in the hands of wily politicians.
While we should not allow our country to be a dumping ground for
the refuse population of the Old World, still we should welcome
all hardy, common-sense laborers here, as we have plenty of room
and work for them. Here they can improve their