duced by Miss
Addams as one who was not a member of the House but was eligible. In
the course of a winning speech she said: "The United States is
committed to a democratic form of government, a government by the
people. Those who do not believe in the ideals of democracy are the
only ones who can consistently oppose woman suffrage. The hope of
democracy is in education. There is food for thought in the fact that
the early education of all the citizens is now administered by a class
who have no vote.... Our recent California Legislature when it
submitted the amendments which were to be referred to the voters on
October 10 did a very sensible and intelligent thing. Speeches for and
against each one of these amendments were published in a little
pamphlet which was sent to every voter. One man--and he was a good
man, too--who argued against woman suffrage said that women should not
descend into the dirty mire of politics, that the vote would be of no
value to them. In the same speech he said that the women should teach
their sons the sacred duties of citizens and to hold the ballot as the
most precious inheritance of every American boy. Can we really bring
up our sons with a clear sense of the civic responsibility which we
ourselves have not? We believe that our children need what we shall
learn in becoming voters and that the State needs what we have learned
in being mothers and home makers."

"May I present next," said Miss Addams, "Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, of
New York? She has been before other Congressional committees with Miss
Susan B. Anthony, who for so many years came here to present this
cause. Mrs. Harper has written a history of the equal suffrage
movement and a very fine biography of Miss Anthony and it is with
special pleasure that I present her. She will make the constitutional
argument."

Mrs. Harper said in beginning: "This argument shall be based entirely
on the Federal Constitution and the only authorities cited will be the
utterances of two Presidents of the United States within the past
month." She then quoted from speeches of President Taft and former
President Roosevelt extolling the Constitution as guaranteeing
self-government to all the people with the right to change it when
this seems necessary, and she showed the utter fallacy of this
statement when applied to women. In closing she said: "Forty-three
years in asking Congress for this amendment of the Federal
Constitution to enfranchise women the