The record-union., 1896-09-24
the front and took advantage of the
opportunity to introduce
MRC CHApMAN NATn

the front and took advantage of the
opportunity to introduce
MRS. CHAPMAN-CATT
OF New York. In the fourth century
of the Christian era, Mrs. Gait said,
church council admitted that women
were human beings and accountable to
their Creator for their acts. In the
eighth century another church council
was called which by a small majority
declared that women should be allowed
to learn to read and write, provided
they did not get beyond the A B Cs.
The speaker said with Victor Hugo
that this was woman's century. To-
day there were in the United States
10000 women graduates, and one
fourth of all the women in the country
were bread winners. During the last
century there was no one crowned in
this country except men, and they
crowned themselves, but at the coming
election men should lift the crown from
| their heads and touch it upon the brows
of the women.
The speaker claimed that the ballot
had never been extended except for
political purposes. The ballot had been
| extended to the negroes in order to
make the Republican party solid in the
South A few philanthropists were
sincere in their effort to get the ballot
extended to the negro, but the rank
and file knew what was expected. No
Territory had ever been admitted to
the Union unless that same Territory
would help to swell the votes of the
party In power.
When the question Of extending the
franchise to women in Utah came up
the Democrats counted up the women
and found that the majority Of them
would vote the Democratic ticket, and
the result was that every Democrat In
Utah voted to extend the suffrage to
women. The trouble with men was
not that they were afraid women would
not vote if given a chance, but that
they We're afraid the women would not
vote the way they did.
She, with George Eliot, did not blame
the women for being foolish-they had
to be-to even up matters with the
men. A certain man, said the speaker,
in looking over the grocery bill which
had been run up by his wife, found
such items as one pound of coffee, and
next, one pound ditto. He called his
wife to account, who declared she had
never bought pound Of ditto in her
life. Thereupon the man in question
carried the account book to the grocer,
and when he returned his wife asked:
Did you find anything about ditto?"
YES" replied he Il found out that
was fool and that you were ditto"
While she was not well acquainted
with the politicians Of California, the
speaker said she imagined that they
were, like their brethren in the East,
like the treetoad-they always took on
the color of the tree on which they
rested. 1t was natural, in other words,
that the politician should take the color
of the people they looked to for votes.
Even the most rabid politician, had
he been present, would have been
obliged to admit that Mrs. Cats speech
was non-partisan. She was talking for
votes, but she didn't care where they
came from, and plainly told her audi
ence that women, if given the ballot,
would vote for any party they chose
without asking favors.
Women in politics, said the speaker,
would never gain a point unless they
were one of the constituency; but give
her the ballot, make her one Of that
same constituency, and she would have
a motive and a way to accomplish it.
In conclusion she made a strong ap-
peal to the voters present to vote to
give women the ballot, and from that
day on she would go down the centu-
ries hand in hand with him, assisting
him to solve the problems of Govern
ment-assisting him with her voice,
her vote and her best nature.
The speaker concluded by stating
that a collection would be taken up.
and that every man present would give
according to his means, and not his
meanness.
The ushers accordingly circulated
through the audience, and when the
offering had been taken to the altar
the glee club sang America" after
which the audience melted away and
the meeting was a thing of the past.