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cendiary document." The Republic offered, as its only excuse for coming into being, that it meant to establish "equality for all,"-yet it is ever ready to brand as a traitress every woman therein who objects to being placed by it under the absolute and irresponsible despotism of millions of rulers. The Republic was founded upon the principle that people have a right to overthrow a government based upon any other standard than liberty and equality for all its members-yet it is ever ready to brand as a traitress every woman who objects to being placed by it upon the identical public plane she would occupy as a subject of Turkey.

QUOTATIONS AND SUMMARIES

(The following are quotations and summaries from the writings and speeches of noted Americans and others. A few of them being quoted from memory, may deviate slightly verbally from the original, but in no case is the sense altered or modified.),

OPINIONS OF WOMEN

The American Republic dishonours woman, and it should expect no woman to honour it.Mrs. Z. Wallace (Mother of General Lew Wallace).

To the everlasting shame of the American Republic, a delegation of ladies from the aristocracies of England, Russia, Sweden and Norway, appeared before its Congress, February, 1902, to implore it to pass a National enactment which would force the States of the Union to cease classing women politically with their criminals and lunatics, with their mental and moral outcasts. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, in introducing the speakers, said: "Although I have always lived in this Republic, having been a resident of four different States, a tax-payer, and able to pass every qualification, I have never been permitted to vote for the smallest thing, and yet I have the privilege of introducing to the American Congress a Russian woman who has voted in her country ever since she was twenty-one years of age."

Madam Freedland said: "Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Congress-In a country like Russia, with an absolute government, there is but little suffrage for either men or women, but what there is is equally shared by men and women. We do not (men or women) vote for our Czars, but about all the municipal officers are elected by the votes of real-estate owners, regardless of sex, and this is a far greater justice than is shown to American women. Russia has the most liberal laws in Europe regarding the civil capacity of her women. For centuries marriage has not changed the rights of a wife to her property; the husband has no legal right over the property of the wife, and the wife is in no respect under the husband's guardianship."

Mrs. Ewald, of Sweden, said: "I stand before the legislative power of America, representing a country where women have voted since the seventeenth century, and Swedish women voted before any man upon American soil ever voted. Our men granted votes to women without women ever requesting the same. The tax-payers of Sweden, irrespective of sex, can vote. Women have voted

since 1736 1or every office for which men vote on the same terms, except in the second chamber of the Riksdage."

Mrs. Drewson, of Norway, said: "All women in Norway who pay taxes on an income of $100 a year have municipal suffrage upon exact terms as the men of that land."

Mrs. Fenwick-Miller, of England, said: "Women have the municipal suffrage in England upon the same qualifications as men."

Mrs. Goldstein, of Australia, said: "Women have full suffrage in New Zealand, West and South Australia, and the Isle of Man, in the British Empire, and municipal suffrage in Canada, England, Ireland and Scotland."

These ladies then pleaded with the Congressional Committee (which had been appointed not to listen to any of their speeches) to grant the rights to American women upon the like terms and conditions upon which Congress had granted such rights to the negro men of the land.

"English women have a much greater opportunity than their American sisters to engage in

public and political affairs. The English woman occupies nearly all her working hours with meetings and functions of various kinds, many of them of a semi-public nature. In politics the influence of English women is direct, whereas it is so limited among American women as to be inappreciable.”—Mrs. Cornwallis-West.

NEED FOR REFORM

I call the attention of the Legislature to the desirability of gradually extending the sphere in which the suffrage can be exercised by women. -Message of President Roosevelt, when Governor of New York.

Man, who tramples on the rights of others, is the greatest stickler for his own. Liberty being feminine, modest man naturally imagines that, like everything else feminine, Liberty belongs entirely and only to him.-L. de V. Matthewman.

Women in republics have no genuine public influence. Men flatter them into believing they have in order to keep them good, just as they

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