the moral standard for men be what it now is for women, and it is none too high.  Let it grow the more elevated by our growth in spirituality, by every aspiration which we receive from the God whence we draw our life and whence we draw our impulses of life.  Let our standard remain where it is and be more elevated.  Yours must come up to match it, and never will it until we are your equals politically.  So it is for men, as well as for women, that I make my appeal.

I know that there are some gentlemen upon this committee who, when we were here two years ago, had something to say about the rights of the States and of their disinclination to interfere with the rights of the States in this matter.  I have great sympathy with the gentlemen from the South, who, I hope, do not forget that they are representing the women of the South in their work here at the national capital.  Already some Northern States are making rapid strides towards the enfranchisement of their women.  The men of some of the Northern States see that they can no longer accomplish the purposes politically which they desire to accomplish without the aid of the women of their respective States.  Washington is the third Territory that has added women to its voting force, and consequently to its political power at the national capital as well as its own capital.  Oregon will undoubtedly, as her representative will tell you to-day, soon add its women to its voting force.  The men who believe, that each State must be left to do this for itself will soon find that the balance of power between the North and South is destroyed, unless the women of the South are brought forward to add to the political force of the South as the women of the North are being brought forward to add to the political force of the North.

This should not be acted upon as a partisan measure.  We do not appeal to you as Republicans or as Democrats.  We have among us Republicans and Democrats; we have our party affiliations.  We, of course, were reared with our brothers under the political belief and faith of our fathers, and probably as much influenced by that rearing as our brothers were.  We shall go to strengthen both the political parties, neither one nor the other the more, probably.  So that it is not as a partisan measure; it is as a just measure, which is our due, not because of what we are, gentlemen, but because of what you are, and because of what we are through you, of what you shall be through us; of what we, men and women, both are by virtue of our heritage and our one Father, our one mother eternal, the spirit created and progressive, that has thus far sustained us, and that will carry us and you forward to the action which we demand of you to take, and to the results which we anticipate will attend upon that action.

    REMARKS BY MRS. HELEN M. GOUGAR.

    Miss Anthony.  I think I will call upon the other representative
    of the State of Indiana to speak now, Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of
    Lafayette, Ind.