come before Congress in
person, and the nineteenth by petitions, asking national protection
for the citizen's right to vote, when the citizen happens to be a
woman."

MRS. HARRIET R. SHATTUCK (Mass.): We canvassed four localities in
the city of Boston, two in smaller cities, two in country
districts and made one record also of school teachers in nine
schools of one town. The teachers were unanimously in favor of
woman suffrage, and in the nine localities we found that the
proportion of women in favor was very much larger than of those
opposed. The total of women canvassed was 814. Those in favor
were 405, those opposed, 44; indifferent, 166; refused to sign,
160; not seen, 39. These canvasses were made by respectable,
responsible women, and they swore before a Justice of the Peace
as to the truth of their statements. Thus we have in
Massachusetts this reliable canvass of women showing those in
favor are to those opposed as nine to one....

MRS. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL (Ind.): ... My friend has said that men
have always kept us just a little below them where they could
shower upon us favors and they have done that generously. So they
have, but, gentlemen, has your sex been more generous to women
than they have been generous toward you in their favors? Neither
can dispense with the service of the other, neither can dispense
with the reverence of the other or with the aid of the other in
social life. The men of this nation are rapidly finding that they
can not dispense with the service of woman in business life. I
know that they are also feeling the need of the moral support of
woman in their political life.

You, gentlemen, by lifting the women of the nation into political
equality would simply place us where we could lift you where you
never yet have stood--upon a moral equality with us. I do not
speak to you as individuals but as the representatives of your
sex, as I stand here the representative of mine, and never until
we are your equals politically will the moral standard for men be
what it now is for women, and it is none too high. Let woman's
standard be still more elevated, and let yours come up to match
it.

We do not appeal to you as Republicans or as Democrats. We were
reared with our brothers under the political belief and faith of