ts down an'
cries when we ought to git up an' heave brickbats. What's de
reason dat we women can't vote, an' ain't got no say-so 'bout
makin' de laws dat bosses us? Ain't we got de right on our side?
Yassir, but we'se got no backbone in us to just retch out an'
grab dat ballot.

Dere ain't nobody 'sputing dat we'se got to scrape up de money to
pay de tax collector, even if we does have to get down into a
skirt pocket for hit insted of pants' pocket, an' our belongin'
to de angel sect ain't gwine to keep us out of jail if we gits in
a fight wid anodder lady or we swipes a ruffled petticote off de
clothesline next do'. Fudermo', when de meat trust puts up de
price of po'k chops, hits de woman dat has to squeeze de eagle on
de dollar ontel hit holler a little louder an' pare de potato
peelin's a little thinner. An' dat makes us women jest a-achin'
to have a finger in dat government pie an' see if we can't put a
little mo' sweetnin' in hit, an' make hit a little lighter so dat
hit won't get so heavy an' ondigestible on de stomachs of dem
what ain't millionaires.

Yassir, we'se jest a-honin' for de franchise an' we might have
had hit any time dese last forty years ef we'd had enough
backbone to riz up an' fit one good fight for hit, but instead of
dat we set around a-holdin' our hands an' all we'se done is to
say in a meek voice: "Please, sir, I don't lak to trouble you but
ef you'd kindly pass me de ballot hit sho'ly would be agreeable
to me." An' instead of givin' hit to us, men has kinder winked
one eye at de odder an' said: "Lawd, she don't want hit or else
she's make a row about hit. Dat's de way we men did. We didn't go
after de right to vote wid our pink tea manners on."

Yassir, dat's de true word, an' you listen to me--de day dat
women spunks up an' rolls up dere sleeves an' says to dere
husband dat dey ain't a-gwine to do no' mo' cookin' in his house,
nor darnin' of socks, nor patchin' of britches untel dere is some
female votin', why dat day de ballot will be fetched home to
women on a silver platter. All dat stands between women an'
suffrage is de lack of a spinal colum.

An able address was given by Henry Wilbur, as representative of the
Friends' Equal Rights Association. Max Eastman, assistant professor
in Columbia University, represe