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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 17: the woman suffrage movement (search)
suffrage until every woman shall be perfectly wise, perfectly pure, and perfectly good. This dictum, pronounced in a most authoritative manner, at once brought to my mind the homely proverb, What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; and I could not help asking permission to suggest a single question, upon which a prominent Boston lawyer instantly replied: No, Mrs. Howe, you may not [speak]. We wish to use all our time. The chairman of the committee here interposed, saying: Mr. Blank, it does not belong to you to say who shall or shall not be heard here. He advised me at the same time to reserve my question until the remonstrants should have been fully heard. As no time then remained for my question, I will ask it now: If, as is just, we should apply the test proposed by Mrs. W. to the men of the community, how long would it be before they could properly claim the privilege of the franchise? Du reste, the gentleman in question, with whom my relations have always