lpmeet does
is to precipitate him into sin. I have unbounded faith in the
plans of God and in His ability to carry them out, and when He
said He would make a helpmeet I believe He did it, and that Eve
helped Adam, gave him an impetus toward perfection, instead of
causing him to fall. Man was a noble animal and endowed with
intellectual ability, but Eve found him a moral infant and tried
to teach him to discriminate between good and evil. That is the
first and greatest good which comes to anybody, and Adam, instead
of falling down when he ate the apple, rose up. There is no moral
or spiritual growth possible without being able to discern good
from evil. Adam was an animal superior to all others that
preceded him, but it needed a woman to quicken his spiritual
perceptions.

Eve having taken it upon herself to teach man to know the
difference between good and evil, the responsibility rests upon
woman to teach man to choose the good and refuse the evil. She
will do this if she has freedom of opportunity.

Man has been given schools to develop brain power, and I do not
underrate their value. He has nearly entered into his domain as
far as the material forces are concerned, but there is a moral
and spiritual element in humanity which eludes his grasp in
practically everything he undertakes. This lack of the moral
element is to-day our greatest danger. We do not ask for the
ballot because men are tyrants, but because God has made us the
conservators of the race. To-day we are queens without a scepter;
the penalty to the nation is that men are largely indifferent to
its best interests and many do not vote. Men are under the
influence of women during the formative period of their lives,
first of their mothers, then of women teachers; how can they do
otherwise than underestimate the value of citizenship? How can
the young men of this nation be inspired with a love of justice?
It is a dangerous thing that the education of citizens is given
over to women, unless these teachers have themselves the rights
of citizens. How can you expect such women as have addressed you
here in this convention to teach the youth to honor a Government
which thus dishonors women?

The world has never known but one Susan B. Anthony. God and the
world needed her an