The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-11
MRS. TROUP'S PAPER
Most Instructive Lecture Given on Question of Woman
 Suffrage.
THEIR RIGHTS AND METHODS
opinion That Woman in Politics Would be Better Than Average
 Ward Politician.

Mrs. Alexander Troup read an In- terestlng and instructive paper. yes- terday afternoon, before the Political Equality club at City Mission hall ana the lecturer held the attention of n large audience. Mrs. Kenyon was elected treasurer to succeed Mrs Pratt, who resigned. Mrs. Tronp's topic was The Methods and Rights of Woman Suifraglsts, and she spoke as follows.
 Recently in glanclng over some exchanges an item which attracted my attention. read: "A French Pro lessor of Physics has just proved to the satisfaction of every one. that a woman's loquacity does not proceed | Gas her detractors have asserted, from the futillty of her mind. but is due to the 'solidlty of her chest" By measuring, what ne calls tho volume of tho pressure of air" which leaves the masculine and the feminine chest, this French scientist claims to have found that the man when spcak- Ing tires himself four times hs much as the woman does and that woman eXponds less effort in talking than in flaming herself, From this" says Paris newspaper. "it must he con cludcd that the loquaclty of women Is a Kind of superiority which they have over the so-called stronger sex"
 This item may prove nattering or not, just as we choose to regard 1t. AS the name of the French savant was not given, the scientific value of his conclusion is open to debate. How ever, it may he consollng to learn that t has been admitted that women's ability to talk is not the result of her "futility of mind" but is due to her superiority of "chest soidity." How consoing to know that q scientist acknowledges that women are super ioi to men in any respect.
 The above Is preface to, or dl- gressdn from my subject, as you may prefer to regard lt My reason for presenting it is that lt is duty that women owe to her sex never to allow any tribute to their superiority to pass unchronicled, fearing that If hey should fail in its proclamation, 1t might never be known.
 Now fortified by the consciousness of their "chest solldty," are not wo- men justified in believing that this ability is given them to enable them to champion the cause of suffrage for women, That thus by presenting their cause logically, by discussing it clearly and calmly, and by advocating 1t with all fervor--evon if 1t is an un- popular cause--that they will he moro successful eventually In winning than they would be by adopting the methods of the English women sui fragists, who have literally grdled on the armour of battle and who have actually stormod the fortresscs of the enemy, and who, it seems to many, | have adopted the methods of the most undesirable class in politics. Arc they not while seeking their political rights--sacriilcing their womanly dig nifty?
 There are strong advocates of these aggressive methods, who assert that for many years women have been 1 ignored. More recently they have been literally fighting for it, with the result at least that they have re- ccived some recognition and awak- ened thought and interest in the sub 1 feet of their political disabilities, even if accompanied by opposition. Even admitting this method to he gain, we would ask; Arc they not | furnishing their opponents with the argument that these women'a politi- cal methods, would not be superior to those of an ordinary ward politicianY In fact would be regarded as evidence that "she would stoop to conauor.'
 will not the great facts of the injus- ticc done women by taxing them without representation, again the truth, that women can be hanged, and by laws in which they have had no voice in making be entirely lost sight of in this melee?
 will the smoke of political battle so cloud the memory that 1t will be for- gotten that women are not even given 1 the opportunity to say: Who shall make the laws?" although they are amenable to them, just the same as men are? The fact that they are wo- | men does not exempt them from any of their legal qualities when they are culprits
 Certainly to deprive one class in a community of their political or legal rights means a lack of ballast in leg islation.
 DO men ever realize that criminals, paupers, untaxed Indians, idiots and ] women are the only classes in this country who cannot vote? We do not
 want men to forget this category in
 which they hay2 placed women those