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pleasure of men. So in order to get the women, we must first
get the men. We have on our petitions two columns ruled---one,
the left hand column for women, and the other, the right-hand column for men.
We never have the names placed to-gether in one column.
There is another advantage in getting the sig-natures of men. You must remember that all the legislation is in the hands of men---that they do the voting---and that,
whatever women desire, unless men are generally in favor of it, a majority of men in favor of it, we shall not get it. The need to show

[the phrase a majority of men in favor of it, is underlined in original]