oosing
Dr. Eaton of Minneapolis, chairman of this local committee, as one of
the auditors for the coming year."[11]

A closely reasoned address on the Ethics of Suffrage was made by Louis
F. Post of Chicago, in the course of which he said:

Suffrage is a right, not a privilege. That it is a right of every
individual is the only basis for women's demanding it. If it is
not a right but a privilege that may be granted to men and
withheld from women, be granted to the white and withheld from
the black, be given to those who have red hair and kept from
those with black hair; if it may be rightfully given to the
millionaire and kept from the day laborer; rightfully extended to
those who can read and withheld from those who cannot, or to
those with a college education and from those who have only a
common-school education--if these are the only bases on which
women claim a share in government, then the fundamental argument
for woman suffrage disappears.

Reason back far enough on the privilege line of argument and you
soon come to that fetish of tradition, the divine right of kings.
So if you cannot put your claim on any better ground than
privilege you would better not go on.... Being a right, it is
also a duty. He who has a right to maintain has a duty to
perform. This is the firm rock upon which woman suffrage must
rest. It must be demanded because women are members of the
community, because they have common interests in the common
property and affairs of the community; in a word, they have
rights in the community and duties toward it which are the same
as the rights and duties of every other sane person of mature age
who keeps out of the penitentiary.

An unexpected pleasure was a brief address by Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi,
a veteran suffragist and prominent physician of New York, who was
attending the convention of the American Medical Association. She
based her argument for equal suffrage on the injustice practiced
toward women physicians when they seek the opportunity for hospital
practice. Mrs. F. W. Hunt, wife of the Governor of Idaho, testified to
the good results of woman suffrage in that State for the past five
years. Others who gave addresses were the Rev. Alice Ball Loomis
(Wis.), The Feminine Doctor in Society; Mrs. Lydia Phillips Williams,
president of the Minnesota Federation of Clubs, Grow