are struck with the significance
of the symbolism on every side; we view the adornments in the
beautiful room, and we find here everywhere emblematically woman's
figure. Here is woman representing even war, and there are women
representing grace and loveliness and the fullness of the harvest;
and, above all, they are extending their protecting arms over the
little children. Gentlemen, I leave you under this symbolism,
hoping that you will see in it the type of a coming day when we
shall have women and men united together in the national councils
in this great building.

REMARKS BY DR. CLEMENCE S. LOZIER.

Miss ANTHONY. I meant to have said, as I introduced Mrs. Blake,
that sitting on the sofa is Dr. Clemence S. Lozier, who declines
to speak, but I want her to stand up, because she represents New
York city.

Dr. LOZIER. I thank you, I am very happy to be here, but I am not
a fluent speaker. I feel in my heart that I know what justice
means; that I know what mercy means, and in all my rounds of duty
in my profession I am happy to extend not only food but shelter to
many poor ones. The need of the ballot for working-girls and those
who pay no taxes is not understood. The Saviour said, seeing the
poor widow cast her two mites, which make a farthing, into the
public treasury, "This poor widow hath cast more in than all they
which have cast into the treasury." I see this among the poor
working-girls of the city of New York; sick, in a little garret
bedroom, perhaps, and although needing medical care and needing
food, they will say to me, "above all things else, if I could
only pay the rent." The rent of their little rooms goes into the
coffers of their landlords and pays taxes. The poor women of the
city of New York and everywhere are the grandest upholders of this
Government. I believe they pay indirectly more taxes than the
monopoly kings of our country. It is for them that I want the
ballot.

REMARKS BY MRS. ELIZABETH BOYNTON HARBERT.

Miss ANTHONY. I now introduce to the committee Mrs. Elizabeth
Boynton Harbert, of Illinois, and before Mrs. Harbert speaks
I wish to say that for the last six years she has edited a
department of the Chicago Inter-Ocean called the "Women's
Kingdom."

Mrs. HARBERT. Mr. Chairman and honorable gentlemen of the
committee