of our disabilities,
which now prevent our exercising the right of suffrage.

The arguments in favor of the enfranchisement of women are truths
strong and unanswerable, and as old as the free institutions of
our Government. The principle of "taxation without representation
is tyranny" applies to women as well as men, and is as true to-day
as it was a hundred years ago.

Our demand for the ballot is the great onward step of the century,
and not, as some claim, the idiosyncracies of a few unbalanced
minds.

Every argument that has been urged against this question of
woman's suffrage has been urged against every reform. Yet the
reforms have fought their way onward and become a part of the
glorious history of humanity.

So it will be with suffrage. "You can stop the crowing of the
cock, but you can not stop the dawn of the morning." And now,
gentlemen, you are responsible, not for the laws you find on the
statute books, but for those you leave there.

REMARKS BY MRS. MARY SEYMOUR HOWELL.

Miss ANTHONY. I now introduce to the committee Mrs. Mary Seymour
Howell, the president of the Albany, N.Y., State society.

Mrs. HOWELL. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee: Miss
Anthony gives me five minutes. I shall have to talk very rapidly.
I ask you for the ballot because of the very first principle that
is often repeated to you, that "taxation without representation is
tyranny." I come from the city of Albany, where many of my sisters
are taxed for millions of dollars. There are three or four women
in the city of Albany who are worth their millions, and yet they
have no voice in the laws that govern and control them. One of our
great State senators has said that you can not argue five minutes
against woman suffrage without repudiating every principle that
this great Republic is founded upon.

I ask you also for the ballot for the large class of women who are
not taxed. They need it more than the women who are taxed, I have
found in every work that I have conducted that because I am a
woman I am not paid for that work as a man is paid for similar
work.

You have heard, and perhaps some of you are thinking--I hope
not--that women should be at home. I wish to say to you that there
are millions of women in the United States who have no homes.
There are mil