everywhere women bear the brunt of an unequal standard of morality.

 

But the women are on the march. They are walking upward to the sunlit plains

where the thinking people rule. China has ceased binding their feet. In the

shadow of the Harem Turkey has opened a school for girls. America has given the

women equal educational advantages, and America, we believe, will enfranchise

them.

 

We can do little to help and not much to hinder this great movement. The

thinking people have put their O.K. upon it. It is moving forward to its goal

just as surely as this old earth is swinging from the grip of winter toward the

spring's blossoms and the summer's harvest.[1]

 

9. Read aloud the following address, paying careful attention to pause wherever

the emphasis may thereby be heightened.

 

_THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT_

 

... At last, the Republican party has appeared. It avows, now, as the Republican

party of 1800 did, in one word, its faith and its works, "Equal and exact

justice to all men." Even when it first entered the field, only half organized,

it struck a blow which only just failed to secure complete and triumphant

victory. In this, its second campaign, it has already won advantages which

render that triumph now both easy and certain. The secret of its assured success

lies in that very characteristic which, in the mouth of scoffers, constitutes