erest which she
is entitled to protect.

"But she can control legislation by her influence." If it were
proposed to take away our right to vote, we would think it a
satisfactory answer that our influence would still remain? If she
has influence she is entitled to that and her vote too. You have
no right to burn down a man's house because you leave him his
lot.

"But woman does not want the suffrage." How do you know? have you
given her an opportunity of saying so? Wherever the right has
been accorded it has been generally exercised, and the best proof
of her wishes is the actual use which she makes of the ballot
when she has it. But it makes no difference whether all women
want to vote or whether most women want to vote, so long as there
is one woman who insists upon this simple right, the justice of
America can not afford to deny it....

At the close of Mr. Foulke's address Mrs. Stanton was obliged to leave
in order to reach New York City in time for her steamer. The entire
audience arose, the women waving handkerchiefs and the men joining in
three farewell cheers.

One splendid address followed another, morning and evening, while the
afternoons were occupied with business meetings, and even here there
were many little speeches which were worthy of preservation. Among
them was one of Miss Anthony's, in which she said: "If it is
necessary, I will fight forty years more to make our platform free for
the Christian to stand upon, whether she be a Catholic and counts her
beads, or a Protestant of the straightest orthodox sect, just as I
have fought for the rights of the 'infidels' the last forty years.
These are the principles I want to maintain--that our platform may be
kept as broad as the universe, that upon it may stand the
representatives of all creeds and of no creeds--Jew and Christian,
Protestant and Catholic, Gentile and Mormon, believer and atheist."

Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker (Conn.) discussed The Centennial of 1892,
demanding the recognition of women. Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell (N. Y.)
spoke on the Present, the Destiny of To-day. Mrs. Ormiston Chant
(Eng.) depicted the glory of The Coming Woman. Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt made her first appearance on the national platform with an
address on The Symbol of Liberty, describing political conditions with
a keen knowledge of the facts and showing their need of the
intelligence, morality a