n but few, however, for it is too much
trouble to think.

At the evening session the Rev. Florence Kollock (Ills.) spoke on The
Ethics of Woman Suffrage, saying in part:

By what moral right stands a law upon the statute books that
infringes upon the rights and duties of womanhood, that prohibits
a mother from the full discharge of the duties of her sacred
office, as all are prohibited through the law that forbids them
the opportunity of throwing their whole moral strength, influence
and convictions against the existence and growth of social and
political iniquities and in defense of truth and purity? The
great evils of our day are of such a nature that all, regardless
of moral principles or sex, suffer from their effects, proving
clearly that all have a moral obligation in these matters, and
the fact that one human being suffers from an evil carries with
it the highest authority to remove that evil.

The silent influence of woman has failed to accomplish the
desired good of humanity, has failed to bring about the needed
moral reforms, and all observing persons are ready to concede
that posing is a weak way of combating giant evils--that
attitudism can not take the place of activity. To suppress the
full utterance of the moral convictions of those who so largely
mold the character of the race is a crime against humanity,
against progress, against God.

Mrs. Shattuck, in discussing the question, said:

It is absolutely necessary for the improvement of the race that
the manly and womanly elements shall be side by side in all walks
of life, and the fact that our social status, our literature and
our educational systems have been greatly improved by woman's
co-operation with man, points to the eternal truth that man and
woman must work hand in hand in the State also, in order that it
shall be uplifted and saved. Woman herself will not be harmed by
the ballot, for the acquisition of greater responsibilities
improves and not degrades the recipient thereof. If the ballot
has made man worse it will make woman worse, and not otherwise.
Whoever studies the history of the race from age to age and
nation to nation finds the world has advanced and not retrograded
by giving responsibility to the individual. The opposition to
woman suffrage strikes a blow a