when they sit in the office of mayor and in all the
offices of our city, and rule us with a rod of iron, it is time
that American men should inquire if we have any rights that
foreigners are bound to respect....

The last census shows, I think, that there are in the United
States three times as many American-born women as the whole
foreign population, men and women together, so that the votes of
women will eventually be the only means of overcoming this
foreign influence and maintaining our free institutions. There is
no possible safety for our free school, our free church or our
republican government, unless women are given the suffrage and
that right speedily.... The question in every political caucus,
in every political convention, is not what great principles shall
we announce, but what kind of a document can we draw up that will
please the foreigners?...

When we remember that the first foot to touch Plymouth Rock was a
woman's--that in the first settlement of this country women
endured trials and privations and stood bravely at the post of
duty, even fighting in the ranks that we might have a
republic--and that in our great Western world women came at an
early day to make the wilderness blossom as the rose, and rocked
their babies' cradles in the log cabins when the Indians'
war-whoop was heard on the prairies and the wolves howled around
their doors--when we remember that in the last war thousands of
women in the Northwest bravely took upon themselves the work of
the households and the fields that their husbands and sons might
fight the battles of liberty--when we recollect all this, and
then are told that loyal women, pioneer women, the descendants of
the Pilgrim Fathers, are not even to ask for the right of
suffrage lest the Scandinavians should be offended, it is time to
rise in indignation and ask, Whose country is this? Who made it?
Who have periled their lives for it?

Our American women are property holders and pay large taxes; but
the foreigner who has lived only one year in the State, and ten
days in the precinct, who does not own a foot of land, may vote
away their property in the form of taxes in the most reckless
manner, regardless of their interests and their rights. Women are
well-educated; they are graduating from