, or love, when nothing can influence
save drink? The law gives man the power to say, "I will have
drink; I will put this into my mouth." If the ballot were
given to women they would vote against drunkenness. It is
not sentiment, it is logic, if there be any logic in votes
and in a home saved.

The Rev. R. L. COLLIER, in reply to Miss Dickinson, quoted a
story from an English author of a drunkard who was reclaimed
by a daughter's love and devotion. He never wanted to hear a
woman say that law could accomplish what love could not.

Miss DICKINSON: I only want to ask Mr. Collier a question,
and it is this: Whether he does not think that man would
have been a great deal better off if this woman's vote could
have offset his vote, and the rum thereby prevented from
being sold at the outset?

Mr. COLLIER: I wish to say that law never yet cured crime;
that men are not our only drunkards. Women are drunkards as
well as men.

Miss DICKINSON (excitedly): It is not so, in anything like
the same proportion; a drunken woman is a rare sight.

Mr. COLLIER: I wish to say that intemperance can never be
cured by law.

Miss DICKINSON: Very well. You tell me that there are woman
in the land who are drunkards. Doubtless there are. Then I
stand here as a woman to entreat, to beseech, to pray
against this sin. For the sake of these drunken woman, I ask
the ballot to drag them back from the rum-shops and shut
their doors [applause]. God forbid that I should underrate
the power of love; that I should discard tenderness. Let us
have entreaty, let us have prayers, and let us have the
ballot, to eradicate this evil. Mr. Collier says he is full
of sympathy, and intimates that women should stand here and
elevate love above law. So long as a man can be influenced
by love, well and good. When a man has sunk to the point
where he beats his wife and children, and burns the house
over them, reduces his family to starvation to get this
accursed drink; when a man has sunk to such a level, is
woman to stand still and entreat? Is this all woman is to
do? No! She is to have the p