312 HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL. 



The education of the masses is the hope of the world, and a healthy 

 public sentiment must be created in the interest of labor. Poverty must 

 be abolished, and the natural rights of the people must be respected. 

 It is unnecessary for me to pay any tribute to, or heap any abuse upon, 

 woman. She is precisely what her opportunities have made her, whether 

 she is found in a palace or a hovel. She is flesh and blood, and what- 

 ever virtues or vices she may possess, can only be attributed to environ- 

 ment and opportunity. 



What we need, above all things else, is a better womanhood, a 

 womanhood with the courage of conviction, armed with intelligence and 

 the greatest virtues of her sex, acknowledging no master and accepting 

 no compromise. When her enemies shall have laid down their arms, 

 and her proper position in society is recognized, she will be prepared to 

 take upon herself the responsibilities of life, and civilization will be 

 advanced to that point where intellect instead of brute force will rule the 

 world. When this work is accomplished, avarice, greed, and passion 

 will cease to control the minds of the people, and we can proclaim, 

 " Peace on earth, good will toward men." 



