who is to blame? It is the educated
men, the professional men, the men of wealth and culture, who are
themselves responsible when things go wrong; and the refusal to
acknowledge their responsibility will not release them from
it....

The principle of universal suffrage, like every other high ideal,
will not stand alone. It carries duties with it, duties which are
imperative and which to shirk is filching benefits without
rendering an equivalent. How dare a man plead his private ease or
comfort as an excuse for neglecting his public duties? How dare
the remonstrating women of Massachusetts declare that they fear
the loss of privileges, one of which is the immunity from
punishment for a misdemeanor committed in the husband's presence?
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child, I
understood as a child; but when I became a man, I put away
childish things."

Throughout history all women and many men have been forced, so
far as government has been concerned, to speak, think and
understand as children. Now, for the first time, we are asking
that the people, as a whole body, shall rise to their full
stature and put away childish things.

The sermon on Sunday afternoon was given by Mrs. Stetson from the
topic which was to have been considered by the Rev. Anna Garlin
Spencer, The Spiritual Significance of Democracy and Woman's Relation
to It. She spoke without notes and illustrated the central thought
that love grows where people are brought together, and that they are
brought together more in a democracy than in any other mode of living.
"Women have advanced less rapidly than men because they have always
been more isolated. They have been brought into relation with their
own families only. It is men who have held the inter-human
relation.... Everything came out of the home; but because you began
in a cradle is no reason why you should always stay there. Because
charity begins at home is no reason why it should stop there, and
because woman's first place is at home is no reason why her last and
only place should be there. Civilization has been held back because so
many men have inherited the limitations of the female sex. You can not
raise public-spirited men from private-spirited mothers, but only from
mothers who have been citizens in spite of their disfranchisement. In
holding back the mothers of the race