the enfranchisement of women.

MRS. ANNIE L. DIGGS (Kan.): You remember the time when the
theoretical objection was often urged that if the suffrage was
given to women, men would cease to show them the proper respect.
For instance, the weighty argument was made that they would not
raise their hats when they met women on the street, and that they
would not give up their seats in the cars. But, gentlemen, you
should just see how they take off their hats to us in Kansas, and
how every man of them gets up and offers us his seat when we come
into a street car!

It was also urged that if the ballot were put into the hands of
women it would be detrimental to the interests of the home. There
is not a man in the State to-day who would venture to go before a
Kansas audience and urge that objection. There is not a man there
who would be willing to jeopardize his political, social or
business interests by casting any kind of obloquy upon the women
who have exercised the right of the elective franchise for the
last five years. This is the result of success. We have Municipal
Suffrage. One little ounce of fact outweighs whole tons of
theory....

THE REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW (Penn.): Yesterday I noticed in a
report of our hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the House
the headline, "Appeals to Deaf Ears". And I said, "Has it come to
this, that when earnest and sincere women of this great country
make an appeal to the heads of the Government it is dubbed an
'Appeal to Deaf Ears'?" Time was when the British Government
thought our ancestors had not sufficient merit in their cause to
be heard, and when they made an "appeal to deaf ears". But the
time came when those ears were unstopped and they heard, and what
they heard was the cry of victory by a free people. We may be
appealing to deaf ears to-day, but the time is coming when it
will not be so. Men will hear and, hearing, they will answer,
because ultimately men desire the right. If I were asked what I
conscientiously believe the real condition of the hearts of most
men to be, I should say they are positively ignorant in regard to
the justice of this matter, and if it could be brought properly
before them, they would stand on the side of justice and right
for women.

Therefore I desire only t