that, I say
we have just half enough, for a majority of the opinions of all the
people combined is sure to be better than the opinions of any one
class. They call it a "mistake" giving to poor and uneducated men
the right to vote; whereas, the greatest wrongs in our government
are perpetrated by rich men, the wire-pulling agents of the
corporations and monopolies, in which the poor and the ignorant
have no part.

No, they can not persuade me that it would be a right or even a
politic thing to ask that only educated, tax-paying women be
enfranchised. It would antagonize not only every man who had
neither property nor education but also every one whose wife had
neither, and all such would vote against the enfranchisement of the
rich and educated women. You can not start a demand for any sort of
restrictive qualification for women which will not lose more votes
for the measure in one direction than it can possibly gain in
another.

The habit of many women of continually intruding their religious beliefs
into their public work was a great annoyance to Miss Anthony. To a
prominent speaker on the Prohibition platform with whom she was well
acquainted, she wrote: "It seems to me that by your using constantly the
words 'God' and 'Jesus' as if they were material beings, when to you
they are no longer such, you impress upon your audience, grounded as the
vast majority yet are in the old beliefs, that you still hold to the
idea of their personality. The world, especially women, love to cling to
a personal, material help--God a strong man, Jesus a loving man." And
then a little further on, referring to the common habit of regarding
physical misfortunes as the punishment of God, she said: "God is not
responsible for our human ills and we should not believe or disbelieve
in Him on account of our aches and pains. It surely is not the good
people who escape bodily ailments. Certain fixed laws govern all, and
those who come nearest to obeying these laws will suffer least; but even
then we must suffer for the failures of our ancestors."

One of the leading women in a State where a suffrage amendment was
pending, wrote her that she felt sure the Lord would interpose in its
behalf and she should try to influence the voters by prayer. In response
Miss Anthony said:

I think you do not fully realize that the vast majority of the men
whom you have t