ill be a "now." The trouble is that below all this lies the
fact that man can govern alone and that, though woman has the
right, man wants to do it; and if she wait for him to ask her, she
will never vote.

There never was a cause with so much unembodied strength, and with
so little working power; and the problem is how to vitalize and
organize it. One of two things, I think, must occur; either man
must be made to see and feel, as he never has done yet, the need of
woman's help in the great field of human government, and so demand
it; or woman must arise and come forward as she never has, and take
her place. I still think that one of the main hindrances is with
women. The fact is, that the worst bugbear is the never-seen,
ever-felt law of caste which has always walled woman around, and
which few have the courage to step over.

[Autograph:

Sincerely yours
A.G. Riddle]

At the close of the convention Miss Anthony accepted the invitation
of Mrs. Hooker, the State president, to join her in a month's tour
through Connecticut. They spoke in nineteen different cities and
towns, Mrs. Hooker assuming all financial responsibility and paying
Miss Anthony $25 for each lecture. They had excellent audiences and
were entertained in many beautiful homes. In Miss Anthony's diary,
March 11, she says: "Senator Sumner died today, the noblest Roman
of them all; true to the negro, but never a public word for woman.
How I have pleaded with him for years, and he always admitted that
his principles logically carried out gave woman an equal guarantee
with man."

In the spring of 1874 the women's temperance crusade began in
Rochester and, although their methods were very different from
those Miss Anthony would have employed, she met with them at their
request to help them organize. After this was effected they called
on her for a speech and she said in brief:

I am always glad to welcome every association of women for any good
purpose, because I know that they will quickly learn the
impossibility of accomplishing any substantial end. Women never
realize their inability to effect a reform until they attempt it,
and then they find how closely interwoven with politics are all
such matters, and how entirely without political power are they
themselves.... Now my good women, the best thing this org