be made, the better
for all concerned; and the woman who undertakes to put her sex in
an antagonistic position to man, who undertakes by the use of
some independent political power to contend and fight against
man, displays a spirit which would, if able, convert all the now
harmonious elements of society into a state of war, and make
every home a hell upon earth. Women do not bear their proportion
and share, they can not bear their proportion and share of the
public burdens. Men represent them in the Army and in the Navy;
men represent them at the polls and in the affairs of the
Government; and though it be true that individual women do own
property that is taxed, yet nine-tenths of the property and the
business from which the revenues of the Government are derived
are in the hands and belong to and are controlled by the men.
Sir, when the women of this country come to be sailors and
soldiers; when they come to navigate the ocean and to follow the
plow; when they love to be jostled and crowded by all sorts of
men in the thoroughfares of trade and business; when they love
the treachery and the turmoil of politics; when they love the
dissoluteness of the camp and the smoke and the thunder and the
blood of battle better than they love the enjoyments of home and
family, then it will be time to talk about making the women
voters; but until that time the question is not fairly before the
country.

Mr. COWAN: Mr. President, I had not intended to say anything on
this subject beyond what I offered to the Senate yesterday
evening, and I should not do so if it were not for the suggestion
of a friend, and I am glad to say a friend who believes as I do,
that it is the general supposition that I am not serious and not
in earnest in the amendment which I have moved; and I only rise
now for the purpose of disabusing the minds of Senators and
others from any impression they may have had of that sort.

I am perfectly free to admit that I have always been opposed to
change. I do not know why it is. Whether I have felt myself old
or not, I have not ranged myself in the category of "old fogies"
as yet. Although I feel an indisposition to exchange the "ills we
suffer" for "those we know not of," and am not desirous to launch
myself away from that which is as