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Rh you say, theory, for granting absolute equality of rights to the female sex? Yes or no.

SCHUERZE — I hold that the entire female sex has absolutely equal rights.

JULIE VOM BERG — I see. You mean to say that one woman has as many, that is as few, rights as the other. I shall now vote that Mr. Schuerze is not to have any "office."

Mr. Schuerze departs amid general merriment.

Not discouraged by this failure, another opponent appears. It is a man with very little forehead, but much beard, and a powerful voice. He gives his name as Gerstaeker. Several questions from the meeting: "Are you the traveler and writer, Gerstaeker?"

GERSTAEKER — I am his namesake and likewise a traveler, but I travel for a wine-house. But that makes no difference. I only wanted to say something that my namesake has said. He said it ‘in the "Gartenlaube," with which you are probably acquainted; it is the most distinguished and brightest paper in our German fatherland. My namesake is of the opinion that the emancipation of woman is against her own interests. For, he says, so long as she is not emancipated, that is, not on a footing of equality with man, he will protect her; she is for him the weaker sex, over whom he must watch, and for whom he must show tender consideration. But when she is made his equal, he will treat her as his equal, and will abandon all