thony said: "For several years a big box of oranges has come to
me from Florida. Not long ago, I got home on one of the coldest
nights of the year, and found a box standing in my woodshed, full
of magnificent oranges. Next morning the papers reported that all
the oranges in Florida were frozen; but the president of the
suffrage association saved that boxful for me."

MRS. ELLA C. CHAMBERLAIN: Those were all we saved.... A man in
Florida who hires himself and his wife out to hoe corn, charges
$1.25 for his own services and 75 cents for hers, although she
does just as much work as he, so the men who employ them tell me.
It costs his wife 50 cents a day to be a woman.

VOICE IN THE AUDIENCE: And the 75 cents paid for her work belongs
to her husband.

MISS ANTHONY: I suppose those are colored men.

MRS. CHAMBERLAIN: No, they are white.

MISS ANTHONY: White men have always controlled their wives'
wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves
became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

The delegate from the District of Columbia answered in a very faint
tone of voice, and Miss Anthony remarked that "this was through
mortification because even the men there had no more rights than
women." When another delegate could not be heard she said: "Women have
always been taught that it is immodest to speak in a loud voice, and
it is hard for them to get out of the old rut." At another time:

MISS LAVINA A. HATCH: In Massachusetts there are between 103,000
and 105,000 families which have no male head. Some of these pay
large taxes and none of them has any representation.

MRS. MARIANA W. CHAPMAN: In about two-thirds of the State of New
York, and not including New York City, women are assessed on
$348,177,107.

MRS. LOUISA SOUTHWORTH: This year, with the new income tax, I
shall pay in taxes, national, State and municipal, $5,300.

MISS ANTHONY: Yet why should she have a right to vote?
Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

MRS. MERIWETHER: Tennessee caps the climax in taxation without
representation. In Shelby County there are two young women,
sisters, who own farms. Both are married, and both were sensible
enough to have their farms secured to themselves and their
children. In one case, at least, it proved a wise preca