t to that most sacred principle
of our republic. So long as you and I and all women are political
slaves, it ill becomes us to meddle with the weightier discussions
of our sovereign masters. It will be quite time enough for us, with
self-respect, to declare ourselves for or against any party upon
the intrinsic merit of its policy, when men shall recognize us as
their political equals, duly register our names and respectfully
count our opinions at the ballot-box, as a constitutional
right--not as a high crime, punishable with "$500 fine or six
months' imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court."

If all the "suffragists" of all the States could see eye to eye on
this point, and stand shoulder to shoulder against every party and
politician not fully and unequivocally committed to "Equal Rights
for Women," we should become at once a moral balance of power which
could not fail to compel the party of highest intelligence to
proclaim woman suffrage the chief plank of its platform. "In union
alone there is strength." Until that good day comes, I shall
continue to invoke the party in power, and each party struggling to
get into power, to pledge itself to the emancipation of our
enslaved half of the people; and in turn, I shall promise to do all
a "subject" can do, for the success of the party which thus
declares its purpose "to undo the heavy burdens and let the
oppressed go free."

[Footnote 91: That women will, by voting, lose nothing of man's
courteous, chivalric attention and respect is admirably proven by the
manner in which Congress, in the midst of the most anxious and
perplexing presidential conflict in our history, received their appeals
for a Sixteenth Amendment protecting the rights of women. In both
Houses, by unanimous consent, the petitions were presented and read in
open session, and the most prominent senators impressed upon the Senate
the importance of the question.... The ladies naturally feel greatly
encouraged by the evident interest of both parties in the proposed
amendment.--Washington Star.

The time has evidently arrived when demands for a recognition of the
personal, civil and political rights of one-half--unquestionably the
better half--of the people can not be laughed down or sneered down, and
recent indications are that they can not much longer be voted down. The
speaker of the House set a commendabl