o say that I know from my travels all
over the country, conferring with the intelligent women to bring
before them this great principle, that the good work is going on.
It may be deafness yesterday and partial hearing to-day, but it
will be full hearing to-morrow. To-day we may be blind to the
truth; to-morrow we shall see the whole truth. We may not have
another centennial before we shall see justice for all human
kind.

You know, gentlemen, that this Government exists for only three
things, and in those every woman is as much interested as every
man. It exists for the administration of justice, for the
protection of person and property, and for the development of
society. Just as you and all men have persons and property to
protect, so we women have. We are because of our nature and
because it seems as if the Almighty had intended it should be so,
more interested than men in the development of society. Wherever
there is any movement for the uplifting of society you will find
women in the forefront. There never has been any great movement
in this nation when women have not stood side by side with the
noblest and truest men.

We do to-day nine-tenths of the philanthropic work, nine-tenths
of the church work, and form three-fourths of the church
membership. We are the teachers of the young; we are the mothers
of the race. If you want the noblest men you must have the
noblest mothers. "Eye hath not seen, nor hath ear heard, nor hath
it entered into the heart of man to conceive" the kind of men and
women God had in view when He created man in His own likeness and
gave to male and female dominion over the world, to subdue it and
to bring out of it the best things.

You who talk of a great Government in which the voice of God is
heard must remember that, if "the voice of the people is the
voice of God," you never will know what that is until you get the
voice of the people, and you will find it has a soprano as well
as a bass. You must join the soprano voice of God to the bass
voice in order to get the harmony of the Divine voice. Then you
will have a law which will enable you to say, "We are a people
justly ruled, because in this nation the voice of the people is
the voice of God, and the voice of the people has been heard."

Mrs. Ellen