s. Its mission cannot end
and its work should not, so long as any radical reform shall yet
urge its demands in behalf of humanity. The civil service reform
is eminent and important. In this regard the movement of the
present administration is in the right direction, and yet it is
only a first step of many which must ultimately be taken. To the
people, not to a part of the people, belongs the sovereignty of
this nation. Let them keep it. To this end great care should be
taken to guard against the caucus system. Nothing should be more
scrupulously avoided in the management of political parties.
Anti-republican in spirit, it is sometimes exclusive in practice.
The people have the same right to nominate that they have to
elect their own officers. Why not? Ultimately, too, they will
take that right, and for its own sake no party can afford to make
itself the nursery of caucus power. The political machinery
should be simplified, that nothing which mere politicians can
desire shall stand between the people and their government. In a
genuine republic, every act of the government should be but a
practical expression of its subjects. All the subjects, too,
should share equally the power of such expression. There should
be no exclusion among intelligent, qualified classes. Involved in
this principle is the idea of woman suffrage, the next great
moral issue, in my judgment, which this country must meet, and a
reform which no party can afford to despise. Indubitably right,
as I believe it to be, I regard its success as inevitable, and
that whatever party opposes it is as surely destined to defeat,
as was the party which arrayed itself in opposition to the
anti-slavery cause.

The following letter in the _Woman's Journal_ shows that something
of the spirit of the Connecticut Smith-sisters has been found in
New Hampshire:

I have long felt a deep interest in the subject of woman's
rights, and some fifteen years ago I resisted taxation two
successive years. The second year I worked out my highway tax,
for which crime I brought down upon my guilty head a severe
persecution from both men and women, from clergymen and lawyers,
as well as other classes of my fellow townsmen. The
tax-collectors came into my house and attached furniture and sold
it at auction in orde