Page:History of Woman Suffrage Volume 4.djvu/300

 “If you will come I will show you the sweetest girl baby you ever saw.’


 * Let it be recorded that the first bill introduced by a woman member in any State Legislature was a bill for the protection of girls.

On motion of Mrs. Colby, it was voted to send a telegram of congratulation to the Hon. Mrs. Holley.

Again:

Before introducing the president of the Florida W. S. A. Miss Anthony said: “For several years a big box of oranges has come to me from Florida. Not long ago, I got home on one of the coldest nights of the year, and found a box standing in my woodshed, full of magnificent oranges. Next morning the papers reported that all the oranges in Florida were frozen; but the president of the suffrage association saved that boxful for me.’


 * Those were all we saved.

A man in Florida who hires himself and his wife out to hoe corn, charges $1.25 for his own services and 75 cents for hers, although she does just as much work as he, so the men who employ them tell me. It costs his wife 50 cents a day to be a woman.


 * And the 75 cents paid for her work belongs to her husband.


 * I suppose those are colored men.


 * No, they are white.


 * White men have always controlled their wives’ wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

The delegate from the District of Columbia answered in a very faint tone of voice, and Miss Anthony remarked that “this was through mortification because even the men there had no more rights than women.” When another delegate could not be heard she said: “Women have always been taught that it is immodest to speak in a loud voice, and it is hard for them to get out of the old rut.” At another time:

In Massachusetts there are between 103,000 and 105,000 families which have no male head. Some of these pay large taxes and none of them has any representation.


 * In about two-thirds of the State of New York, and not including New York City, women are assessed on $348,177,107.


 * This year, with the new income tax, I shall pay in taxes, national, State and municipal, $5,300.


 * Yet why should she have a right to vote? Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.


 * Tennessee caps the climax in taxation with-