a herdsman say if you told him
his sheepfold was all that was needed, and refused to give him a
gun? What would the farmer say if you gave him a cultivator but
no plough? What would Christianity be if it had only the Ten
Commandments and not the Golden Rule?

He who thinks the ballot is given simply as a means of
protection--protection in a limited sense, against fraud and
violence--has but a limited conception of the duties of American
citizenship. The old let-alone theory of government has been
found a failure, and instead of it people are coming to think
that government is good to do anything that it can do best--just
as they have already learned that it is proper for woman to do
anything that she can do well. In a word, as Mrs. Howe said the
other evening, the ballot is a means of getting things done which
we want done.

When your good friend with a kind and prosperous husband, a
pleasant home and nothing lacking which better laws could secure
for her, says she thinks women are already pretty well treated
and she doesn't know that she would care for the ballot, ask her
how she would feel if she were a teacher and were expected to
work beside a man, equal work and equal time, he to get $60 and
she $40 a month? Ask her whether she would not want to have a
vote then? Isn't this a case, kind mistress of a home, where you
should remember those in bonds as bound with them? I very much
fear there never will be a time when all the good people in this
world can dispense with any effective weapon against wrong.

And, beyond this, there are all the offensive, aggressive uses of
the ballot. We want a sewer here, a bridge there, a lamp-post or
a hydrant yonder. A woman's nose will scent a defective drain
where ten men pass it by, but votes get these things looked
after. We want a new schoolhouse, or more brains or more fresh
air in an old one. Don't you know that women will attend to such
needs sooner than men?

Mr. Foulke said in part:

It is said that woman suffragists are dreamers. There was a time
within our memory when human flesh in this our free America was
sold at auction. In those days a few earnest men dreamed of a
time when our flag should no longer unfurl itself over a slave.
Inspired by this great vision they bore the persecutio