he highest
considerations of justice and good government demand equal suffrage
for all women."

Dr. Shaw in closing the hearing said in part:

I have in my hand a document which was today sent, I believe, to
every Senator and Representative, signed by the ladies
representing societies opposed to the further extension of the
suffrage to women. Of those which purport to be State societies,
three at least are merely local clubs in cities. These ladies
have petitioned this honorable body and the House of
Representatives not to grant the appeal of the women who have
come here with this very large petition on the ground that it
would be an interference on your part with the rights which the
States have reserved to themselves, if you were to submit an
amendment to the Federal Constitution giving full suffrage to
women.... I see by this document that the great danger with which
you are threatened if you do this unjust thing is that you admit
into the body politic a vast non-fighting horde of people, a most
dangerous class. Man suffrage is a method adopted, it says, for
the peaceful attainment of the will of the majority, to which the
minority must submit.

If there is anything which must appeal to every sense of justice,
it is the struggle of the industrial world to get out from under
the domineering, military power. The age in which we live is no
longer a militant age. Today it is not so much the question of
which nation can produce the greatest number of soldiers as of
which can produce the greatest number of things the world needs
to buy. It is a problem of industry and into this problem women,
either by force or by desire, have come.... In olden times women
could control the hours of their labor and the conditions
affecting their health and the health of their families; they
could regulate the price of the product which they themselves
produced in the home but since men have taken from it the
industries, the necessity for women to protect themselves in the
workshop, in the sweatshop, in the factory has come about.
Wherever man has taken woman's work the woman must follow it and
she must have the same method of protecting herself which man
must have and there is no other means save through the ballot....

We have been over forty years, a longer per