[42] Senator Brown assumes that all women are wives and the mothers of young children, and that the mother's sense of duty would not hold her to the care of her children if she had a chance to go into politics. [43] Would any man be willing to exchange his influence for that of a woman in the affairs of government? [44] This would seem to be the very influence which ought to be enforced by a vote. [45] In readjusting the qualifications for the suffrage the Southern States have been very careful to secure the right to all the illiterate _white_ men. [46] Senator Brown says in the preceding paragraph that the "delicate and lovely women" would not remain at home but would consider it an imperative duty to go to the polls. [47] Is it because women lack physical strength that they are not allowed to practice law in Georgia or to act as notaries public or to fill any office, even that of school trustee, and that no woman is permitted to enter the State University? The men should at least give their "queens" and "princesses" and "angels" an education. [48] Yes, if the husband has to enforce it with a club. This paragraph does not tally with the one in the early part of the Senator's speech where all women were placed on a throne, and all men were declared to be their natural protectors. [49] The picture of family life in Georgia is not alluring, but the Senator takes small account of the woman who does not happen to possess a "male," or rather to be possessed by one. [50] Therefore the wife should not be allowed any individuality. Statistics, however, from the States where women do vote prove exactly the opposite of this assertion in regard to divorce. [51] For account of the unconstitutional disfranchisement of the women of Washington Territory by its Supreme Court, see chapter on that State. [52] This does not seem to apply to negro suffrage in the Southern States. [53] One hearing Senator Brown's blood-curdling descriptions would think they were more than "inconveniences." [54] Observe that Senator Vest's entire argument against woman suffrage is based wholly on sentiment and emotion and is entirely devoid of logic. [55] The Senator meant that it is a right which comes from the men of the State, from one-half of its people. [56] Because of a few such brutes millions of women must be deprived of the suffrage. If women had some control over the conditions which tend to make men brutes, might the number not be lessened? The Senator ignores entirely the secret ballot which would prevent the aforesaid brutes from knowing how the women voted. [57] In the preceding paragraph she did not seem to be on a pedestal.