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The only way of adjusting things between man and woman is to arrange as do the different professions. Let the topics concerning us be discussed in open conference. This little band here at Longwood, which has always looked upon woman as an equal of man, is different from the rest of the world. People are learning and some day we will have a government wise with all the wisdom of all the people. Recently I saw a composite picture of the members of the Senate, and the drunkenness and debauchery expressed was so appalling that I was shocked at it for it is your picture, and it is just right for those men are the representatives of the people.

The question being open for general discussion HENRY S. KENT said:

The franchise being a privilege of the state should be regulated by it. These people coming to our shores are not capable of self government and therefore my resolution was offered. I think the educational qualification for suffrage a most proper one. If I go to another country I do not expect to be allowed a voice in the government until I have been there a sufficient time to acquire a knowledge of their mode of government and I think the rule should work both ways.

MISS EASTMAN added: America needs the foreigner more than the foreigner needs America. The greatest danger is that we may fall on account of our own demoralization. I have much faith though in America and her institutions and do not fear the foreigner.

S. B. LOOMIS, of Wisconsin, said: The question of suffrage is one very dear to me. In regard to the remark made on the platform about our fore-mothers not being able to read and write I wish to congratulate their granddaughters upon the progress made since. These granddaughters have achieved greatness along many lines and their future is very promising. The question of the right of suffrage comes to girls as soon as to boys. The right of the one should be the right of the other. Human beings are human beings whether born in America or China, and when this fact is recognized there will come a republic as broad as the world of humanity.

THOMAS WALTER, of Philadelphia, said: I do not want to exclude anybody from the elective franchise because he cannot read and write. The draymen at the door who sees many phases of life knows better what is good government than the merchant in his counting room who sees only the richer classes. Squire McMullin makes a better councilman in PhilaPhiladelphia than would I, for he represent a class which I could not. All are governed so we should allow all to vote. Years ago there was perhaps more feeling against the Irish than there is to-day against the Chinese, yet the Irish have added as much wealth to America as any other three nationalities. 'Tis only a political ruse and will ever be a stigma upon us if we send the Chinaman away. If we do so it will be proving ourselves the heathen. I am not afraid to see a foreigner come to this country. Maybe we can do him some good and if we are what we claim to be he can do us no harm. It is not in accordance with our principle of hospitality to turn him away. The hour having arrived for the noon recess the meeting adjourned until 2 p. m.

SIXTH-DAY, Afternoon Session.

The meeting opened by the audience joining the Swayne Family in singing the hymn commencing

"O Life that maketh all things new."

The committee on nominations reported for Clerks, FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY, Florence, Mass., and ELIZABETH B. PASSMORE, Oxford. Pa. For Treasurer, AARON MENDENHALL, of Hamorton, Pa.

The report was adopted. The question of the morning being again taken up, HENRY S. KENT reread the resolution on Suffrage.

J. WILLIAMS THORNE said: The question of suffrage lies on a fundamental principle of Republican or Democratic government. Unless the whole people are enfranchised it is not a republic. I have long advocated that people have the use of the elective franchise whether or not they are ignorant. Subsequent to our late war Massachusetts enacted a law which

made it necessary for a voter to be sufficiently educated to read and write. This was a bad example for some of the greatest fools I have ever known could do both. On the other hand some very bright men I have known could do neither. Mississippi had a bitter hatred against the former slaves, and thinking to deprive them of their rights followed the example of Massachusetts and enacted a similar law. They escaped the censure it would otherwise have brought upon them, by pointing to Massachusetts and saying "why we are only following the example of Massachusetts."

Russia is no more a despotism than is the United States so long as we disfranchise one individual unjustly. The principle is the same whether it be one or many.

Let us consider now who is responsible for the liquor traffic in the United States. Is it the low, degraded classes? Not at all. It is the judges of our courts-the educated judges who bring all this misery upon us.

JACOB HARVEY, Unionville, said: I am afraid of ignorant men in our Republic. I think there could be an educational criterion established which would largely benefit us. By this criterion we should allow both men and women to vote. There is no argument against this. Did you ever hear of any one making a speech against woman suffrage? There is a good objection however against the ignorant voting. They do not understand the rules of government. It is only ignorance we must fear.

LUNDY KENT, of Wilmington, said: I wish to add my testimony to those who have spoken against this resolution. We must not curtail the elective franchise. It is the right of every citizen. An ignorant person is not dangerous, but a malignant person well educated is greatly to be feared. Thos. Jefferson said it was not the masses but the classes which he feared.

S. B. LOOMIS, Wisconsin, added: Judging from the conditions into which we have brought affairs I think we men had better sit down and allow the women to try running the government for the next 100 years. I think they would succeed far

better than we have done.

THOS. WALTER, of Philadelphia, said: If there is not enough virtue in the educated persons of our country to save it let it go down. I have much confidence in our people for in them I believe there is always more good than evil. There is no time in this world for the discrimination of man against man. Do you suppose that if in HENRY KENT'S county the majority of the people voted the Prohibition ticket, that he would much question their ignorance? I am not much afraid of education and not at all afraid of common sense well applied. J. WILLIAMS THORNE said: If the women vote for the next hundred years, whether or not the men do, the world will be far better than it is to-day. The saloons and gambling hells will certainly be abolished if no other good is accomplished.

As there seemed to be so much objection offered to the resolution and as it was feared that a voting down of the resolution would record the meeting as opposed to woman suffrage it was decided to offer a second resolution, not as a substitute for the first but to be voted on with it. The following is the second resolution:

SUFFRAGE TESTIMONY.

It is the sense of this meeting that the exercise of the elective franchise is an inalienable right of every adult citizen.

That exclusion on account of the accident of sex, color or nationality violates reason and works injustice.

The resolutions being put to vote the first one was voted down and the second adopted. This ended the discussion on this subject.

The next topic on the program was Universal Temper ance. HENRY S. KENT read the following resolution which had been prepared by the business committee.

TEMPERANCE TESTIMONY.

We again renew our testimony against the drink habit as a vice producing untold human misery, and the legalized traffic in intoxicants as a crime against every true interest of the state.

We believe that intemperance in its widest sense covers a multitude of pernicious indulgences which can only be cured by genuine educational methods, by training from early childhood to habits of high self-mastery, by the establishment of such institutions as open the way to a higher and more permanent class of enjoyments, the creation of better opportunities to rise to higher condition, while making use of our ballots in such a way as shall strike the most effective blow for the total Prohibition of the liquor traffic in all its branches.

The question was opened by the chairman REV. F. A. HINCKLEY, of Florence, Mass. We give his address in full:

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Strange as it may seem, friends, I am ambitious enough. and presuming enough, to try to say something new on the Temperance question to-day; something which may be suggestive of a little new thought and possibly a little new work, on this old, vexed, ever-present, as yet unsolved problem.

You may think I ask the impossible, but I demand of myself and I beg of you, for the hour, that we forget and lay aside all prejudice of attitude, if any we have, and assume such a judicial mood, as belongs to the treatment of a new problem. I do this not in antagonism to any of the old views or old methods of work (that I trust it is not necessary for me to say) but in the interests of the truth, and with the supreme desire to promote a sober, high-toned, progressive manhood and womanhood. All action in this life which is to produce worthy results must be based on sound philosophy. I want to address myself, first, now, to

The Philosophy of Temperance.

I think the very first proposition, seemingly unanswerable, when we approach the question in the clear, white light of philosophy, is that the problem is a universal, and not as is frequently thought, a special one. We have specialized the meaning of the very word Temperance, until in our common language, we associate it, almost exclusively with one special

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