ust and generous and chivalric toward woman, and
that she can not possibly need other protection than he gives her
with his own right arm--while he forgets that it is from man
alone woman needs protection, and often does she need the right
to protect herself from the avarice, brutality or neglect of the
one nearest to her. The only remedy for her, as for man himself,
in this republic, is the ballot in her hand. He thinks he is
generous to woman when he supplies her wants, forgetting that he
has first robbed her by law of all her property in marriage, and
then may or may not give her that which is her own by right of
inheritance....

A mother, legally so, has no right to her child, the husband
having the right to will it to whom he pleases, and even to will
away from the mother the unborn child at his death. The wife does
not own her own property, personal or real, unless given for her
sole use and benefit. If a husband may rent the wife's land, or
use it during his life and hers, and take the increase or rental
of it, and after her death still hold it and deprive her children
of its use, which he does by curtesy, and if she can not make a
will and bequeath it at her death, then I say she is robbed, and
insulted in the bargain, by such so-called ownership of land. "A
woman fleeing from her husband and seeking refuge or protection
in a neighbor's house, the man protecting her makes himself
liable to the husband, who can recover damages by law." "If a
husband refuse to sue for a wife who has been slandered or
beaten, she can not sue for herself." These are Kentucky laws.

Mrs. Harriette R. Shattuck closed her record for Massachusetts by
saying: "The dead wall of indifference is at last broken down and the
women 'remonstrants,' by their active resistance to our advancing
progress, are not only turning the attention of the public in our
direction and making the whole community interested, but also are
paving the way for future political action themselves. By
remonstrating they have expressed their opinion and entered into
politics."

Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway gave a full report of the situation in
Oregon, and a hopeful outlook for the success of the pending suffrage
amendment.[13] This was followed later by a strong address. A letter
was read from Mrs. Sallie Clay Bennett (Ky.). Dr. Clemence S. Loz