I
made up my mind to go and see things for myself. My husband was
told it was no place for a woman there among 60,000 men and 1,500
animals; but he had business at home which he did not think I
could attend to, and he thought I could go to Chickamauga just as
well as he....

If there had been women on the commission, would they have
pitched the camp five miles from water? Or provided only one
horse and one mule to bring the water for two companies? Or
ordered the soldiers to filter and boil their drinking water,
without furnishing any filters or any vessels to boil it in? It
is said that suffragists do not know how to keep house. If so,
the men who managed the war must all be suffragists.

But Clara Barton and the women nurses have won golden opinions
from every one. If any man had given a tithe of what Helen Gould
did, he could have had any office in the gift of the
administration. So could she, if she had been a voter. She might
even have been Secretary of War.

We raise our sons to die not for their country--no woman grudges
her sons to her country--but to die unnecessarily of disease and
neglect, because of red tape....

History furnishes no parallel to the women of America during the
last year's war. They were fully alive to its issues,
intelligently conversant with its causes, its purposes and
possibilities; they studied camp locations, conditions and
military rules; and through the hand the heart found constant
expression, as many a company of grateful boys can testify. The
experience of this war ought to have effectually destroyed the
last trace of mediaeval sentiment concerning the propriety of
women mixing in the affairs of government, and also the last
shadow of doubt as to the expediency of recognizing them as
voters.

Mrs. Josephine K. Henry (Ky.) made an address sparkling with the
epigrams for which she was noted, entitled A Plea for the Ballot:

....The light and the eager interest in the faces of American
women show that they are going somewhere; and when women have
started for somewhere, they are harder to head off than a
comet.... All roads for women lead to suffrage, even if they do
not know it. We are Daughters of Evolution, and who can stop old
Dame Evolution?... We must live up to our principles, or, as a