women wheeling earth for railroad embankments." Does he not
remember that Switzerland and Germany are Christian countries and
that it is part of their civilization that while women do this
work, some man takes the pay and puts it in his own pocket quite
in heathen fashion? The reverend doctor in the usual style of
opposition to woman--which is to quote something or other having
no bearing upon the question--refers to Cornelia's "jewels,"
forgetting to say that Cornelia delivered public lectures upon
philosophy in Rome, and that Cicero paid the very highest tribute
to her learning and genius.

Dr. Strong advocates the old theory that woman and man are not
two classes standing upon the same level, but that the two are
one--that one on the time-worn theory of common law, the husband;
and talks of the "dignity and delicacy of woman" being due to the
fact of her not having been in public life, and that this
"dignity and delicacy" would all evaporate if once she were
allowed to vote, which reminds one of the story of Baron
Munchausen's horn, into which a certain coach-driver blew all
manner of wicked tunes. The weather being very cold, these tunes
remained frozen in the horn. When hung by the fire, the horn
began to thaw out, and these wicked tunes came pealing forth to
the great amazement of the by-standers. The reverend gentlemen
seems to think women are full of frozen wickedness, which if they
enter public life will be thawed out to the utter demolition of
their "dignity and delicacy" and the disgust of society. He deems
it "too hazardous" to allow women to vote. "Bad women would
vote." Well, what of it? Have they not equal right with bad men,
to self-government? Bad is a relative term. It strikes us that
the very reverend Dr. Strong is a "bad" man--a man who does not
understand true Christianity--who is not just--who would strike
those who are down--who would keep woman in slavery--who quotes
the Bible as his authority: thus fettering woman's conscience,
binding her will, and playing upon her hopes and fears to keep
her in subjection.

From Augustine, down, theologians have tried to compel people to
accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the
tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the
stake, the persec