The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.