nation, we are not going to live at all. Then it will be time for
Liberty to throw down her torch, and go out of the enlightening
business.... "Woman's sphere"--these are the two hardest-worked
words in the dictionary.... They call in the mental and moral
wreckage of foreign nations to help rule us. A man was asked,
"How are you going to vote on the constitution?" He answered: "My
constitution's mighty poorly; my mother was feeble before me."
There is deep tragedy in giving such men control of the lives and
property of American women.... There is not so much the matter
with the U. S. Constitution as with the constitutions of some of
our statesmen.... It is not an expansion of territory that we
need so much as an expansion of justice to our own women....
American men have had a hard struggle for their own liberty, and
some of them are afraid there will not be liberty enough to go
around.... What relation is woman to the State? She is a very
poor relation, yet her tax-money is demanded promptly.

Dr. Mary H. Barker Bates, of the Denver School Board, discussed Our
Gains and Our Losses, and said in closing: "We have learned that in
politics we must have a machine, only it should be used for good
government, not for corruption. Make your machine as perfect as you
can, without a flaw in it anywhere, and then use it for good ends."
Mrs. Mary B. Clay (Ky.) gave a careful survey of conditions resulting
from The Removal of Industries from the Home, which had forced woman
to follow them and made her an industrial factor in the outside world.
Miss Griffin being again called on told these anecdotes:

In my home in Alabama there are four educated women. My father
has passed away. My sisters are widows and I am an old maid. We
have as our gardener a negro boy twenty-three years old. When he
came to us he said that he had been in the Second Reader for ten
years, but on election day he goes over and votes to represent
our family. If we complain of having no vote on the expenditure
of our tax-money, we are told we must "influence" men; in other
words, we must influence that gardener. But when we start to do
so, and ask him how he means to vote, he says he doesn't know
yet, because he hasn't seen "Uncle Peter," the colored minister.

In my section men are chivalric and say, "Don't you know that you
sh