s and wants the ballot, the only weapon
for the protection of individual rights recognized in this
government.

In short, this New Woman of the New South wants to be a citizen
queen as well as a queen of hearts and a queen of home, whose
throne under the present regime rests on the sandy foundation of
human generosity and human caprice. It should be remembered that
the women of the South are the daughters of their fathers, and
have as invincible a spirit in their convictions in the cause of
liberty and justice as had those fathers.

We come asking the men of our section for the right of suffrage,
not that it be bestowed on us as a gift on a suppliant, but that
our birthright, bequeathed to us by the immortal Jefferson, be
restored to us....

The most pathetic picture in all history is this great conflict
which women are waging for their liberty. Men armed with all the
death-dealing weapons devised by human ingenuity, and with the
wealth of nations at their backs, have waged wars of
extermination to gain freedom; but women with no weapon save
argument, and no wealth save the justice of their cause, are
carrying on a war of education for their liberty, and no earthly
power can keep them from winning the victory.

The Next Phase of the Woman Question was considered by Miss Mary C.
Francis (O.) from the standpoint of a practical newspaper woman. Mrs.
Chapman Catt, chairman of the national organization committee, made
the last address, taking for a subject Eternal Justice. The
_Constitution_ said: "As a rapid, logical and fluent speaker it is
doubtful if America ever has produced one more gifted, and the
suffrage movement is fortunate in having so brilliant a woman for its
champion."

Henry B. Blackwell urged the South to adopt woman suffrage as one
solution of the negro problem:

Apply it to your own State of Georgia, where there are 149,895
white women who can read and write, and 143,471 negro voters, of
whom 116,516 are illiterates.

The time has come when this question should be considered. An
educational qualification for suffrage may or may not be wise,
but it is not necessarily unjust. If each voter governed only
himself, his intelligence would concern himself alone, but his
vote helps to govern everybody else. Society in conceding his
right has itself a right