als and imbeciles, where they do not belong, and
placed in the respectable company of men who choose their
lawmakers, and give an intelligent consent to the legal power
which controls them.

Do women deserve nothing? Are they not worthy? They have a noble
cause, and they beg you to treat it magnanimously.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lyle Saxon (La.) described in an interesting manner
Club Life among the Women of the South. Mrs. Blake gave a powerful
address on Wife, Mother and Citizen. Miss Shaw closed the meeting with
an impromptu speech in which, according to the reporter, she said: "It
is declared that women are too emotional to vote; but the morning
paper described a pugilistic encounter between two members of Congress
which looked as if excitability were not limited to women. It is said
that 'the legal male mind' is the only mind fit for suffrage." Miss
Shaw then made her wit play around the legal male mind like chain
lightning. "It is said that women are illogical, and jump to their
conclusions, flea-like. I shall not try to prove that women are
logical, for I know they are not, but it is beyond me how men ever got
it into their heads that _they_ are. When we read the arguments
against woman suffrage, we see that flea-like jumping is by no means
confined to women."

On one evening the Hon. Henry C. Hammond of Georgia made the opening
address, which was thus reported:

After declaring that the atmosphere of the nineteenth century is
surcharged with the sentiment of woman's emancipation, he traced
the gradual evolution of this sentiment, showing that one by one
the shackles had been stricken from the limbs of woman until now
she was making her final protest against tyranny and her last
appeal for liberty. "What is meant," said he, "by this mysterious
dictum, 'Out of her sphere?' It is merely a sentimental phrase
without either sense or reason." He then proceeded to say that if
woman had a sphere the privilege of voting was clearly within its
limitations. There was no doubt in his mind as to woman's moral
superiority, and the politics of the country was in need of her
purifying touch. In its present distracted and unhappy condition,
the adoption of the woman suffrage platform and the incorporation
of equal rights into the supreme law of the land was the only
hope of its ultimate salvation....

J. Colton Lynes of Georgia, tak