have raised the standard of morality rather than lowered it.

The results have not been those which were predicted. The homes
have not been broken up; for human hearts are and always will be
the same, and so long as God has established in this world a
greater force than all other forces combined--which we call the
divine gravity of love--just so long human hearts will continue
to be drawn together, homes will be founded, families will be
reared; and never so good a home, never so good a family, as
those founded in justice and educated upon right principles.
Consequently the industrial emancipation of women has been of
benefit to the home, to women and to men.

The claim is made that we are building a barrier between men and
women; that we are antagonistic because men are men and we are
women. This is not true. We believe there never was a time when
men and women were such good friends as now, when they esteemed
each other as they do now. We have coeducation in our schools;
boys and girls work side by side and study and recite together.
When coeducation was first tried men thought they would easily
carry off the honors; but soon they learned their mistake. That
experience gave to men a better opinion of woman's intellectual
ability.

There is nothing in liberty which can harm either man or woman.
There is nothing in justice which can work against the highest
good of humanity; and when on the ground of expediency this
measure is opposed, in the words of Wendell Phillips, "Whatever
is just, God will see that it is expedient." There is no greater
inexpediency than injustice....

We do not ask the ballot because we do not believe in men or
because we think men unjust or unfair. We do not ask to speak for
ourselves because we believe men unwilling to speak for us; but
because men by their very nature never can speak for women. It
would be as impossible for all men to understand the needs of
women and care for their interests as it would be for all women
to understand the needs and care for the interests of men. So
long as laws affect both men and women, both should make the
laws.

Gentlemen, we leave our case with you. I wish those who oppose
this measure could know the great need of the power of the ballot
in the hands of those wh