d God gave her to the world and to humanity.
The next Statue of Liberty will have her features. Of all the
newspaper criticisms and remarks which have been made about her I
read one the other day which exactly suited me; it called her
"that grand old champion of progress."

The women are coming and the men will be better for their coming.
Men say women are not fit to govern because they can not fight.
When men live upon a very low plane so there is only one way to
manage them and that is to knock them on the head, that is true.
It probably was true of government in the beginning, but we are
to grow up out of this low state.

When we reach the highest development, moral and spiritual forces
will govern. That women can and do govern even in our present
undeveloped condition is shown by the fact that three-fourths of
our educators are women. I remember when it used to be said, "You
can not put the boys and girls into the hands of women, because
they can not thrash them." To-day brute force is almost entirely
eliminated from our schools. That women should not take part in
government because they can not fight was probably true in ages
gone by when governments were maintained by brute force, but it
does not obtain in a government ruled by public opinion expressed
on a little piece of paper. Women as a class do not fight, and
that is the reason they are needed to introduce into government a
power of another kind, the power with which women govern their
children and their husbands, that beautiful law of love which is
to be the only thing that remains forever....

Our statesmen are doubting the success of self-government. They
say universal suffrage is a failure, forgetting that we have
never had universal suffrage. The majority of the race has never
expressed its sense in government. We are a living falsehood when
we compare the basic principles of our Government with things as
they are now. It is becoming a common expression, "The voice of
the people is not the voice of God." If you do not find God in
the voice of the people you can not find him anywhere. It is
said, "Power inheres in the people," and the nation is shorn of
half its power for progress as long as the ballot is not in the
hands of women.

What has caused heretofore the downfa