iptures have marked
out for her. It is idiotic not to want one's liberty; it is
insane not to value one's inalienable rights and it is criminal
to neglect one's God-given responsibilities. God placed woman
originally in the same sphere with man, with the same
inspirations and aspirations, the same emotions and intellect and
accountability.... The Chinamen for centuries have taken peculiar
means for restricting women's activities by binding the feet of
girl babies and yet there remains the significant fact that,
after centuries of constraint, God continues to send the female
child into the world with feet well formed, with a foundation as
substantial to stand upon as that of the male child. As in this
instance, so in all cases of restriction put upon women--they do
not come from God but from man, beginning at birth.... For
thousands of centuries woman has heard what sphere God wanted her
to move in from men, God's self-ordained proxies. The thing for
woman to do is to blaze the way of her sex so thoroughly that
sixteen-year-old boys in the next generation will not dare ask a
scholarly woman incredulously if she really thinks women have
sense enough to vote. Woman can enter into the larger sphere her
great Creator has assigned her only when she has an equal voice
with man in forming public opinion, which crystalizes customs;
only when her voice is heard in the pulpit, applying Scripture to
man and woman equally, and when it is heard in the Legislature.
Only then can be realized the full import of God's words when He
said, "It is not well for man to be alone."

Mrs. Douglas analyzed without mercy the pronouncements of Paul
regarding women and said: "The pulpits may insist that Paul was
infallible but I prefer to believe that he was human and liable to
err." When she had finished Dr. Shaw remarked dryly: "I have often
thought that Paul was never equalled in his advice to wife, mother and
maiden aunt except by the present occupant of the Presidential chair"
[Roosevelt].

To Mrs. Blatch was given the privilege of speaking to the resolution
so strenuously insisted upon by her mother: "It is the duty of the
women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to
the elective franchise." In the course of an animated speech she said:

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