on many public matters, concluding thus:

"If men would only think of the question without paying attention
to prejudice or precedent, simply as one of political economy, they
would soon begin to regard woman, and woman's rights, just as they
regard themselves and their own rights," said she.

"The W.C.T.U. are doing good work, are they not?"

"Yes, Miss Willard is doing noble work, but I can not coincide with
her views, and my new lecture, 'Will Home Protection Protect,' will
combat them. The officer who holds his position by the votes of men
who want free whiskey, can not prosecute the whiskey-sellers. The
district-attorney and the judge can not enforce the law when they
know that to do so will defeat them at the next election. If women
had votes the officials would no longer fear to enforce the law, as
they would know that though they lost the votes of 5,000
whiskey-sellers and drinkers, they would gain those of 20,000
women. Miss Willard has a lever, but she has no fulcrum on which to
place it."

"Where do you find the strongest antipathy to woman suffrage?"

"In the fears of various parties that it might he disastrous to
their interests. The Protestants fear it lest there should be a
majority of Catholic women to increase the power of that church;
the free-thinkers are afraid that, as the majority of
church-members are women, they would put God in the Constitution;
the free-whiskey men are opposed because they think women would
vote down their interests; the Republicans would put a suffrage
plank in their platform if they knew they could secure the majority
vote of the women, and so would the Democrats, but each party fears
the result might help the other. Thus, you see, we can not appeal
to the self-interest of anybody and this is our great source of
weakness."

It was decided to bold this year's May Anniversary in St. Louis instead
of New York, and all arrangements having been made by Virginia L. Minor
and Phoebe Couzins, the convention opened formally on the evening of
May 7, to quote the newspapers, "in the presence of a magnificent
audience which packed every part of St. George's Hall, crowding gallery
and stairs and leaving hardly standing room in the aisles." They also
paid many compliments to the intellectual character of the audience,
its evident sympathy with the cause for which the c