like you who have achieved
high positions, had the good sense to train your sisters in the
same way, and that it is a pity the State has lost that other
half of the conservative power which comes from a Christian
rearing and a Christian character.

I have spoken thus on the principles which have made me, a
conservative woman, devoted to the idea of the ballot, and one in
heart with all these good and true suffrage women, though not one
in organic community. I represent before you the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union and not a suffrage society, but I
bring these principles to your sight, and I ask you, my brothers,
to be grand and chivalrous towards us in this new departure which
we now wish to make.

I ask you to remember that it is women who have given the
costliest hostages to fortune, and out into the battle of life
they have sent their best beloved into snares that have been
legalized on every hand. From the arms which held him long, the
boy has gone forever, for he will not come back again to the
home. Then let the world in the person of its womanhood go forth
and make a home in the State and in society. By all the pains and
dangers the mother has shared, by the hours of patient watching
over beds where little children tossed in fever and pain, by the
incense of ten thousand prayers wafted to God from earnest lips,
I charge you, gentlemen, give woman power to go forth, so that
when her son undertakes life's treacherous battle, his mother
will still walk beside him clad in the garments of power.

Miss Anthony, who knew better than anyone else when not another word
was needed, said at the close of Miss Willard's touching address:
"Now, gentlemen, we are greatly obliged to you. I feel very proud of
all my 'girls' who have come before you this morning, and you may
consider the meeting adjourned."

FOOTNOTES:

[64] The following report was prepared by Mrs. Parker: At a large and
influential gathering of the friends of woman suffrage, at Parliament
Terrace, Liverpool, November 16, 1883, convened by E. Whittle, M. D.,
to meet Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony prior to their return to
America, a resolution was proposed by Mrs. Parker of Penketh, seconded
by Mrs. McLaren of Edinburgh, and unanimously passed: "Recognizing
that union is strength and that the time has come when women all over
the