er by ignorance; not only in respect to the
right of suffrage, but in every other respect the peer and equal of
her brother, man.

[Illustration: Autograph: "J N Dolph"]

Senator Vest, of Missouri, came to the rescue of Senator Brown and in
the course of his speech said:

I pity the man who can consider any question affecting the
influence of woman, with the cold, dry logic of business. What man
can, without aversion, turn from the blessed memory of that dear
old grandmother, or the gentle words and caressing hand of that
blessed mother gone to the unknown world, to face in its stead the
idea of a female justice of the peace or township constable? For my
part, I want when I go to my home--when I turn from the arena where
man contends with man for what we call the prizes of this paltry
world--I want to go back, not to be received in the masculine
embrace of some female ward politician, but to the earnest, loving
look and touch of a true woman. I want to go back to the
jurisdiction of the wife, the mother; and instead of a lecture upon
finance or the tariff, or upon the construction of the
Constitution, I want those blessed, loving details of domestic life
and domestic love.

I have said I would not speak of the inconveniences to arise from
woman suffrage. I care not whether the mother is called upon to
decide as a juryman, or a jurywoman, rights of property or rights
of life, whilst her baby is "mewling and puking" in solitary
confinement at home. There are other considerations more important,
and one of them to my mind is insuperable. I speak now respecting
women as a sex. I believe that they are better than men, but I do
not believe they are adapted to the political work of this world. I
do not believe that the Great Intelligence ever intended them to
invade the sphere of work given to men, tearing down and destroying
all the best influences for which God has intended them. The great
evil in this country today is emotional suffrage. Women are
essentially emotional. What we want in this country is to avoid
emotional suffrage, and what we need is to put more logic into
public affairs and less feeling.[31]

He presented a remonstrance against giving the ballot to women, signed
by nearly 200 New England men, headed by President Eliot, of Harvard
University, an