But if they keep on with these bold, forward actions, men won't love
'em, and they will find out so. And it has always been, and is now, man's
greatest desire and chiefest aim he has aimed at, to protect women, to
throw the shinin' mantilly of his constant devotion about her delikit form
and shield her and guard her like the very apples in his eyes.
"Woman is too sweet and tender a flower to have any such hardship put upon
her, and it almost crazes a man, and makes him temporarily out of his head,
to see women do anything to hazard that inheriant delicacy of hern, that
always appealed so to the male man.
"Let us go forth, clad in our principles (and ordinary clothing, of
course), and show just where we stand on the woman question, and do all we
can to assist the gentle feminine She Aunties. Lovely, retirin' females
whose pictures we so often see gracin' the sensational newspapers. Their
white womanly neck and shoulders, glitterin' with jewels, no brighter than
their eyes. They don't appear there for sex appeal, or to win admiration.
No indeed! No doubt they shrink from the publicity. And also shrink from
making speeches in the Senate chambers or the halls of Justice, but will do
so, angelic martyrs that they are, to hold their erring Suffrage sisters
back from their brazen efforts at publicity and public speakin'."
They said his speech wuz cheered wildly, give out for publication, and
entered into the moments of the Society.
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