k nothing as women but everything as human beings.
The sphere of woman is any path that she can tread, any work that
she can do. Let no one imagine that we wish to be men. In the
beginning God created them male and female. The principle of
co-equality is recognized in all of God's kingdom. We are
beginning to find in the human race, as in the vegetable and the
animal, that the male and the female are designed to be the
equals of each other.

It is because woman loves her home that she wants her country to
be pure and holy, so that she may not lose her children when they
go out from her protection. We want to be women, womanly women,
stamping the womanliness of our nature upon the country, even as
the men have stamped the manliness of their nature upon it. The
home is the sphere of woman and of man also. The home does not
mean simply bread-making and dish-washing, but also the place
into which shall enter that which makes pure manhood possible.
Give woman a chance to do her whole duty. What is education for,
what is religion for, but as a means to the end of the
development of humanity? If national life is what it ought to be
also, a means to the same end, it needs then everything that
humanity has to make it sweet and hopeful. Women have moral
sentiments and they want to record them. That is the only
difference between voting and not voting. The national life is
the reflected life of the people. It is strong with their
strength and weak with their weakness.

A letter was read to the convention by Miss Anthony from Miss Kitty
Reed, daughter of Speaker Thomas B. Reed, who had been with her father
in California during the recent suffrage campaign. In referring to
this she said:

There and elsewhere the thinking women who opposed it used this
argument: There are too many people voting already; the practical
effect of woman suffrage would be an increase in the illiterate
vote, without a proportionate increase in the intelligent vote.
They were not in favor of it unless there could be an educational
qualification. In other words, they were opposed to woman
suffrage because they were opposed to universal suffrage. I have
always regarded universal suffrage as the foundation principle of
our government. If "governments deriving their just powers from
the con