advanced thinkers in the world are now claiming that intuition is the
greatest faculty given to the human race and that woman has the
biggest share of it. Oh no, women oughtn't to be allowed to take part
in any important public issue! Away back in France, some centuries
ago, a simple, uneducated country-girl, seventeen years of age--Joan
of Arc--noticed that the men of the period were not properly managing
the military affairs of her country, and she took the matter under
consideration. She stepped in among great generals and diplomats and
convinced them that she knew more about what to do than all the men in
the realm. The King listened to her, gave her power to act, and she
rode at the head of thousands of soldiers to victory first and a fiery
death later. Now, Warren Wilks will tell you that a woman of that sort
ought never be allowed to do a thing but rock a cradle, scrub a floor,
or look pretty, according to her husband's disposition or pocket-book.

"Then, after all, did you all know--while you are talking so much
about the harm of a woman voting--that if it hadn't been for a woman
there wouldn't have been a single vote cast in all these United
States? In fact, you wouldn't be sitting here now but for that woman.
Away back (as I was teaching my history class the other day) Columbus
tramped all over the then civilized land trying to get aid to make his
trial voyage, and nobody would listen to him. He was taunted and
jeered at everywhere he went. Men every bit as sensible as we have to-
day said he was plumb crazy. He was out of heart and ready to give up
as he rode away from the court of Spain on a mule, when Isabella
called him back and furnished the money out of her own pocket to buy
and man his ships. Folks, that is the kind of brain Warren Wilks and
his crowd will tell you ought to be kept at the cook-stove and the
wash-tub. Oh, women will be given the vote in time, don't you bother!"
Dolly said, with renewed conviction. "We can't have progress without