nature everything lives upon something else. Life feeds upon
life. Something is lying in wait for something else, and even the
victim is weaving a web or crouching for some other victim, and
the other victim is in the same business--watching for something
else. The same is true in the human world--people are living on
each other; the cunning obtain the property of the simple; wealth
picks the pockets of poverty; success is a highwayman leaping from
the hedge. The rich combine, the poor are unorganized, without
the means to act in concert, and for that reason become the prey
of combinations and trusts. The great questions are: Will man
ever be sufficiently civilized to be honest? Will the time ever
come when it can truthfully be said that right is might? The lives
of millions of people are not worth living, because of their
ignorance and poverty, and the lives of millions of others are not
worth living, on account of their wealth and selfishness. The
palace without justice, without charity, is as terrible as the
hovel without food.

_Question_. What effect has the woman's suffrage movement had on
the breadwinners of the country?

_Answer_. I think the women who have been engaged in the struggle
for equal rights have done good for women in the direction of
obtaining equal wages for equal work. There has also been for many
years a tendency among women in our country to become independent
--a desire to make their own living--to win their own bread. So
many husbands are utterly useless, or worse, that many women hardly
feel justified in depending entirely on a husband for the future.
They feel somewhat safer to know how to do something and earn a
little money themselves. If men were what they ought to be, few
women would be allowed to labor--that is to say, to toil. It should
be the ambition of every healthy and intelligent man to take care
of, to support, to make happy, some woman. As long as women bear
the burdens of the world, the human race can never attain anything
like a splendid civilization. There will be no great generation
of men until there has been a great generation of women. For my
part, I am glad to hear this question discussed--glad to know that
thousands of women take some interest in the fortunes and in the
misfortunes of their sisters.

The question of wages for women is a thousand times more important
than sending missionaries to China or to India. There is plenty
for missionaries