ation is a foregone conclusion. The great "declarations,"
by the fathers, regarding individual rights and the true
foundations of government, should not be glittering generalities
for demagogues to quote and ridicule, but eternal laws of
justice, as fixed in the world of morals as are the laws of
attraction and gravitation in the material universe.

In regard to the injustice of taxing unrepresented classes, Lord
Coke says: "The supreme power can not take from any man his
property without his consent in person or by representation. The
very act of taxing those who are not represented appears to me to
deprive them of one of their most sacred rights as free men, and
if continued, seems to be in effect an entire disfranchisement of
every civil right; for what one civil right is worth a rush when
a man's property is subject to be taken from him without his
consent?

Woman's right to life, liberty and happiness, to education,
property and representation, can not be denied, for if we go
back to first principles, where did the few get the right,
through all time, to rule the many? They never had it, any more
than pirates had the right to scour the high seas, and take
whatever they could lay hands upon.

Miss Elizabeth Sheldon Tillinghast (Conn.) considered The Economic
Basis of Woman Suffrage:

....However we may explain it, and whether we like it or not,
woman has become an economic factor in our country and one that
is constantly assuming larger proportions. The question is now
what treatment will make her an element of economic strength
instead of weakness as at present. The presence of women in
business now demoralizes the rate of wages even more than the
increase in the supply of labor. Why? Principally because she can
be bullied with greater impunity than voters--because she has no
adequate means of self-defense. This seems a hard accusation, but
I believe it to be true.

Trade is a fight--an antagonism of interests which are
compromised in contracts in which the economically stronger
always wins the advantage. There are many things that contribute
to economic strength besides ability, and among them the most
potent is coming more and more to be the power which arises from
organization expressing itself in political action. Without