"We are beginning to create a sentiment for suffrage," she protested. "Yes, in women. But can women give it to you? What's the good of undertaking the impossible? The income from this Foundation will not exceed twenty thousand dollars a year. That would not be a drop in the bucket in a state campaign, where you would be compelled to fight the most powerful political machines, and the graft and vice elements of the cities, all of which are naturally opposed to suffrage for women." "Still, I don't see what we can do here in this county alone with the whole state against us," she objected. "That is the question Mrs. Mosely answered. This little old woman fading into a mere shadow behind the doors of her house saw the solution which the rest of you missed with all your breadth of vision--too much breadth of vision, Susan, is as bad as not having any at all. No focus to it, not enough rays to burn through." "I think you know I have had some experience in political affairs, more than most women, and I must say I don't see yet where Sarah Mosely focussed her rays," snapped Susan. "I had several conferences with her. It appeared that she had thought of nothing else for years but this Foundation. She got the idea, she told me, from living with her husband. He was a man whose wife was his rib, not a separate human being. He was kind to her, but she had no more liberty than a child. She never knew anything of his affairs. She told me that she was and had always been absolutely incapable of attending to any business. She had been obliged to trust an agent. In any case she would have been forced to trust some one. She thought most women were in this condition of helplessness, and that they would remain so, always the prey of circumstances of the forces about them. And she wished to change that." "Go on," the old lady commanded as the Judge paused. He did go on. He called attention to certain laws governing county elections. "With all your knowledge of the needs of women, and your bitter sense of injustice, you women never thought of this simple means by which you may win. And it was the thing Sarah Mosely grasped. She was the first woman in America, so far as I know, to grasp the significance of this easy and effective method of obtaining suffrage for women. And instead of leaving her money to a hospital, or to endow a chair or two in some university, she has left it for this purpose. It's amazing--her vision, and the directness with which she reasoned to the right conclusion!" "Still I don't see how we can _force_ this issue here," Mrs. Walton insisted. "Do you know, Susan, why men have the ballot and why women have not got it?" "I have my suspicions, John. It's because they've got everything else, including us. Because they've got pockets in their breeches, for one thing."