is noted and which perhaps leave
a more lasting impression than a labored argument. Mrs. Catharine
Waugh McCulloch, a practicing lawyer of Chicago, considered the
hackneyed phrase All the Rights We Want, showing up in a humorous way
the legal disabilities of women in her own State. The wife's earnings
may be seized to pay for her husband's clothes; she can not testify
against her husband; she can not enter into a business partnership
without his consent; a married mother has no right to her children;
the age of protection for girls is only fourteen, etc.

President George A. Gates of Iowa College said in part: "I never heard
or read a single sound argument against the suffrage of women in a
democracy. There are a hundred arguments for it. The question now is
one of organization, of agitation, of perseverance. In my judgment he
who sneers at suffrage not only proclaims himself a boor and casts
discredit on at least four women--his mother, his wife, his sister and
his daughter--but he reveals a depth of ignorance that is pitiable.
Let the appeal be to experience. Not one of the direful consequences
predicted has come to pass where suffrage is enjoyed. Homes have not
been deserted, bad women have not flocked to the polls, conjugal
strife has not been aroused, bad effects have not come but good
effects have. Bad men seek office in vain where women have the ballot.
New States are coming into line and the triumph of the cause can not
much longer be delayed."

Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson spoke with her usual ability on Duty
and Honor:

Underlying the objections to woman suffrage is a reason of which,
as an American, I am deeply ashamed. I do not think either men or
women have the same honest pride in our democracy that they had
fifty years ago. We are becoming a little afraid of what Europe
has always told us was an experiment, but one reason it has not
yet been all we could wish is that it is not a democracy at all,
but a semi-democracy, one-half of the race ruling over the other
half.

Another deep-seated feeling is that, while development is the
general rule, yet the production of the best men and women
requires "the maternal sacrifice," _i. e._ that the mother shall
be sacrificed to her children, and incidentally to her husband.
If the sacrifice is necessary, well and good; but how if it is
not?... It has been regarded as dangerous to improve th