Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
Man has been given schools to develop brain power, and I do not
underrate their value. He has nearly entered into his domain as
far as the material forces are concerned, but there is a moral
and spiritual element in humanity which eludes his grasp in
practically everything he undertakes. This lack of the moral
element is to-day our greatest danger. We do not ask for the
ballot because men are tyrants, but because God has made us the
conservators of the race. To-day we are queens without a scepter;
the penalty to the nation is that men are largely indifferent to
its best interests and many do not vote. Men are under the
influence of women during the formative period of their lives,
first of their mothers, then of women teachers; how can they do
otherwise than underestimate the value of citizenship? How can
the young men of this nation be inspired with a love of justice?
It is a dangerous thing that the education of citizens is given
over to women, unless these teachers have themselves the rights
of citizens. How can you expect such women as have addressed you
here in this convention to teach the youth to honor a Government
which thus dishonors women?
The world has never known but one Susan B. Anthony. God and the
world needed her and God gave her to the world and to humanity.
The next Statue of Liberty will have her features. Of all the
newspaper criticisms and remarks which have been made about her I
read one the other day which exactly suited me; it called her
"that grand old champion of progress."
The women are coming and the men will be better for their coming.
Men say women are not fit to govern because they can not fight.
When men live upon a very low plane so there is only one way to
manage them and that is to knock them on the head, that is true.
It probably was true of government in the beginning, but we are
to grow up out of this low state.
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