ood and true
in the world, lift up our hands and voices, through
yourself, to protest against these men whose names we bear."
Ah! that Mr. Collier could have seen these drunkards' wives,
standing with tears streaming down their cheeks, and
begging for power, begging for the ballot to save their
homes, and themselves, and their children. Do you tell this
audience--do you tell any mother or daughter here this
afternoon, that she protests against the purity of
womanhood, and lifts her powers against the laws of God?
Pardon me for taking this much of your time. I will simply
add a thought. This is the cause of purity. This is the
cause which is to strengthen young girls, which is to give
them self-reliance and self-respect. This is the thing that
is to put these girls on their feet; say to them "you are an
independent being; you are to earn the clothes that cover
you," and this will allow them to walk with steady feet
through rough places. This thing which is to give these
women such power, certainly will be strengthening to them by
making them independent and self-reliant. The ballot is to
save womanhood and save purity, which he says is in
danger--the feminine element of dependence and weakness and
tenderness, of clinging helplessness, which he so much
adores. Let justice be done. Give us the ballot. Here is the
power to defend yourself when your rights are assailed; when
your home is entered. Here is the authority to tell the
spoiler to stand back; when our sons are being brought up to
wickedness and our daughters to lives of shame, here is the
power in the mother's hand which says these children shall
be taken from the wrong place and put in the right one. For
the rights of mothers I plead. Let us allow, from one end of
this country to the other, every man and woman, black and
white, to go to the polls to defend their own rights and the
rights of their homes.

The Rev. R. L. COLLIER said he would to God that every woman
in America had such a heart and such a voice for woman's
rights. But sympathy was one thing and logic was another. If
he thought the ballo