 of everybody. I'm going to start the program. We're just excited to have Linda Ratty back. We had her be a Zoom a few years ago and the friends of the library said let's do this again for real. So Linda is accompanied by David Gibson on the piano, the keyboard here and this program, I'm Judy Byron, I didn't say that but I'm the adult program coordinator here at the library and this program is sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and Linda is part of the Speakers Bureau and what the Vermont Humanities Council, they're about lifelong education from you know as long as you're walking and reading and hearing and whatever. Dreaming. Dreaming? Breathing. Breathing. So anyway they're about just fostering education, literacy, they do book discussions, all kinds of things and so many of our programs are part of the Vermont Humanities Council and Linda and David are part of that as well and the friends of the library whom many are interspersed, we are so grateful for their support, their right arm and they do fundraising for us, they do book sales, they do outreach and sponsor programs like this one and I just wanted to make mention there's a sign up sheet in the back that if you're interested please do sign up and you can also get our monthly newsletter if you're not already. So we're grateful for the friends for this event and I'm going to let you introduce your program because you know it better than I. I'll start with a song. There's a wave of indignation rolling round and round the land and its mission is so mighty and its mission is so grand that none but naves and cowards dare deny it's just enough. What's came your foolish notion now so great equal to your own as God ordained the judgment in your mother's and faith that true how dare you make the concerns who are. To have been in protest movements our friend Pete Seeger said if the audience, if the people know the tune half your work is done so by using that tune the suffragists create a lot of words that helped sort of convince people but if you think about the women who were in hoop skirts in 1848 you go all the way up to my costume which is 1920 you get a sense of the long progress that women and men their allies made to get the vote 19th the 19th amendment you know because nobody gives a power without a fight and I knew that but this program is called from the parlor to the polling place and I think what I've noticed is a lot of times they started with a few women gathering in their parlors talking about the inequality and then maybe going to the church basement I always think about the Wesleyan there because the Methodist church often would say sure you're part of the evelicious movement you're part of the temperance movement come here and use our space because we believe in equal representation and of course the next step would be the town hall which was which was frightening to women they hadn't had any experience in public speaking well unless you were a quaker then you were allowed to speak and after the town hall it was the state legislature and then of course eventually they had to go to Washington to change it so I really like to look at how people changed their tactics through the years from Elizabeth Kinney Stanton all the way to Alice Paul here's a song from the early days it's from the Civil War 1863 so the first convention for women's rights was held in my hometown Seneca Falls New York 1948 to go and visit if you can and after a while women would gather together just in their own homes most farmhouses had a piano or a nasty organ or something and they could buy the sheet music and sing it at home so this you can see the covers are so wonderful the sheet music but it was written for a specific singer with no name Mrs. John Wood that was really a problem for me doing this research because none of the women had names so eventually if there's like a couple of adjectives or something I can figure it out but it has a kind of militant tone kind of a feminist tone and I think maybe it wasn't meant for people to gather together I think it was maybe made for the women itself and it reminds me a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan and it has a great title I will speak my mind if I die for it Men tell us to spit for wives to submit to their husbands submissively weekly and whatever they say their wives should obey unquestioningly stupidly meekly our husbands would force us their own dictum take without ever aware for or wife for it but I don't and I can't and I don't and I shan't know I will speak my mind if I die for it I'll fudge to say men's the best judge of what should be and shouldn't and so on that woman should bound or attempt to say how she considers matters should go on I never yet gave up myself as a slave however my husband might try for it for I can't and I won't and I don't and I can't and I will speak my mind but the husbands to cope with the rights of the sex will not trifle we all if we choose our tongues but to use can all opposition soon stifle bid us be still and silent a price you pay high for it for we won't and we can't and we don't and we shan't let us all speak I said friends of the library and Judy Byron I'd like to thank Skip Flanders from the Waterbury Historical Society he did a lot of research about women in Waterbury and he found a petition for many years for Mount Women would go to the State House with a petition signed by thousands asking for the right to vote and of course it was always turned down but it was fun for me to see the Waterbury list I'll put it up there later a lot of the names I know from today and when they signed it it was often initials K.E. Henry she was married to Luther Henry but her name was Catherine Boyce so it's hard to do this research but there were about 12 people who vote who signed this petition in 1870 that's really early times and eight of them are buried right here in Hope Cemetery I noticed only one of them actually lived long enough to vote in 1921 so there was many many decades of work and I noticed too that a lot of the signers were the wives of ministers of business owners of doctors people were sort of prominent in the community and that often happened with power in the small towns it changed later on so here is a dedication to Miss Collie, Miss Elizabeth Collie she was a prominent socialist, socialist, suffragist maybe she came after an education at Bates College to teach at the Baptist Seminary which later on ran at the Green Mountain Cemetery so you know that building, Seminary and during the summer to make a living she rented those homes to tourists and Miss Collie got to vote she died in 1925 so this song is giving the ballot to the mothers and I think the argument here is we respect our mothers how can we insult them by not allowing them the privilege of citizenship and the final song I'll sing has the same tune but with a different atmosphere about it and this was a lot of times they used to tune everybody new this was the Civil War tune that you could hear at rallies because I think mother has a lot of emotional baggage to it and it's really a good way to argue that mothers deserve to be citizens Bring the good ol' bugle boys and sing another song Sing it with a spirit that will start the cause along Sing it where they ought to sing it cheerily and strong Giving the ballot to the mothers Spirit shall be free Mountain to the boys and see it to the wind Mothers, wives and daughters, let it shelter and defend Equorites and mottoes, we're loyal to thee So we sing this chorus from the mountain to the sea Interesting to look at our town halls and see how many women showed up to take the Freemans out in 1919 hoping to vote in a national election Vermont was not one of the first three-quarters votes for the 19th Amendment but we had to wait until the federal government told us to and there's a story about that but this next one is a comic story and the idea is that if men don't support this it's going to happen so you'll need our support later on and there was a governor named Percival Clement who was an anti-suffrage man he was also part of a very powerful liquor lobby so as you can imagine a lot of the women were also involved in the temperance and other social reforms so he really opposed it and at the end of the term he refused to hold a special session to vote on it so we didn't make it into the first 19 I'm going to dedicate this to Ms. Nellie Chase from Waterbury She was a graduate of Bates College and she was mentored by Ms. Colley at Green Mountain Cemetery and after she graduated she went to New Hampshire and she became the president of the New Hampshire Suffrage Association I'm going to play both parts here The Unenlightened Man and the Woman It's called Winning the Vote It's a barbell song I've been down to Boston Boys to see the folks in sights Dear me, I heard such fuss and noise about these women's rights Not as plain as my old coat as plain as plain can be that when you women bought the vote they'll get no help from me Not from Joe, not from Joe and he knows that not from Joseph No, no, no, not from Joe Not from me, I tell you so Here's the woman Joseph tell me something new I'm tired of that old song We'll sew your seams and cook the meals To vote won't take us long We will help clean house The one too large for man to clean alone The state and nation, don't you see when we the vote have won Yes, we will and you'll help For you'll need our help, friend Joseph Yes, you will for your own So you better help us win Or just write a blind event And there had seen it The taxes you must pay Without a word of fuss You are prompted to the heart of it Without a note Here Joe, we'll together soon be voters Yes, we will, if we'll all Vote yes at the polls next fall Strategy's there to convince the men And one that really worked was the idea of taxation without representation At that point women could inherit property They could run businesses They could sometimes vote in municipal elections Or for the school board or the library board But certainly not in the important elections And so that was an important argument they did And you notice that the woman is saying We'll still clean your house We'll still sew your seams But that was called enlarged housekeeping That was a really important debate topic Which is the role of women Is it in the home, the angel, the hearth The woman who's in charge of the men's And the children's spiritual development Certainly being in charge of food And clean health and clean water So they used that And they said all we're asking for Is enlarged housekeeping So that we will take care of the wider home That you men have messed up And we'll start to do our normal tasks Which is to clean house And so I'd like to dedicate this To Lucy Daniels Let's see, where is she? Anyway, she's up here She was really radical because she decided Not to take her husband's name Her husband was also a suffragist So she went by Lucy Blackwell Sorry, Lucy Stone And when she tried to vote They said no, because we don't have your name Your name needs to be your husband's They were called the stoners That's all they wanted on them And then the other person I want to talk about Is Lucy Daniels over here She was from Grafton, Vermont And she inherited a huge property And thought she should vote Because she was paying property taxes And she refused And went down to Washington, DC And actually picketed the White House At the end, like 1919 And the town fathers in Grafton Actually took away some of her land Because she hadn't paid her property tax So she was ready She was ready to start to protest And again, a woman of some means Who could do that And she was missed So she didn't have children to take care of And it's interesting because they When she came back, they were horrible things About her in the paper They actually put something on the side of her barn And what she was due According to people who knew her Is she'd walk around town And she'd give 50 cents to all the young women The young girls that she saw And said, you start going to town meeting Because when you grow up You're going to be able to vote And you need to know how that works So that's Miss Lucy Daniels So this is a patriotic tune A lot of suffrage lyrics to it But I picked, I think the best one And there's also a sheet music cover That's called Uncle Sam's Wedding That were men and women When Uncle Sam set up this house He welcomed every brother But in the space of his new life He quite forgot his mother Now his house is up at arms A house where people find him To sweep and dust and set to rights The tangles all around him Uncle Sam is long in years And he is growing wiser He can say trial's a mistake To have no misadvisor Dad never got the reins In looking over their shoulder Shout to dear old Uncle Sam With my old man together Now we're here, dear Uncle Sam To help you in your trouble And the first thing best to do Is making you a double Yankee Doodle will be glad To join us in spreading The news abroad Or all learned of Uncle Sam's Great Wedding Pretty effective as a strategy To join with men To help clean up the world The way women clean up the home And suffragist Francis Willard And if you know Jane Adams Who worked with the poor Said that an army of women Would help to bring about clean water And clean food Because here in Vermont A lot of women who had farms Were able to ensure That their children had clean water And good food But if you lived in a tenement In Winooski You didn't have the power to do that So they were arguing for the vote To help all women have a sort of a A better life Beyond the domestic goddess That was part of our role And I think of them thinking Superhero, house cleaners And we'll go and we'll fix up everything But what happened is People like Jane Adams And other people Started to look at the folks Who didn't have any access to power Certainly the children Who were working in factories And children in so called Work farms And insane assailants Who were often said there And what this Vermont person said I love her because she's right in the middle there She looks like Mrs. Santa Claus But she was such a radical Her name was Mrs. Annette Parnelly And she was married to a man Who was also really important In the evolution of slavery And the suffrage movement So they both worked for The presence of a woman They wanted a woman on every single board Of a charity that involved women And they called her Annette the Suffragette Or Annette the Hornet Because she never gave up But she knew that in advocating for this It's good to use humor a little bit To try to convince people And so there's a broadside over here That says Equal Suffrage Association It's debating whether men Are ready for the vote And she said You know, come and look respectable Which is what women were told And she said, you know Men are too emotional to vote If you see them at a sporting event They lose their minds And if they're in a conflict with other men It often resorts to fisticuffs And women can't win that way So we're good at negotiating And therefore that's why we should have the vote She was from Ernestburg Falls And the other thing she cared about so much Is the factory conditions Of both women and children And in this next song What means these votes for women? She talks about that The joyless haunt of drudges Where children toil and die What means these votes for women? Just is the time When we were votes with free men Concerns of land and home Then snapped the ancient tether And throwing us too long And stoutly pulled together To right or grieve us wrong Shout the song Here it's no cheap, patriot free men All the right women Till the break of dawn And the women's Shout the songs of votes for women No cheap, patriot free men All the right women Till the break of dawn Women did not march in protest before this It's considered really, really a bad thing And eventually the hems went up Because you remember when I did the Civil War program At the church All the way down to the ground But all of a sudden they started dressing for moving And the one thing that's interesting to me As a Christian Is how close the Christian church Especially the Protestant church Especially the Methodist church Was involved in these social changes About the Wesleyan I wonder if they allowed the women To meet in the basement There was often a prohibition about women speaking And so men would speak And that's why we're not called suffragettes As they are in England It's suffragettes They were trying to figure out what So they started with suffragettes But when you see the parades The men were walking along the side And sometimes in the front Serves guards, the women who were Facing a lot of ridicule and worse So the Christian church uses Familiar hems to make their point But again, people on both sides Could look at the Bible They could find evidence for women's suppression Women's second rate level And they also could find evidence In the New Testament especially For women's equality So that was a big debate Which led to some divisions In the women's suffrage movement Well this one is for the suffrage movement In 1876 So if you can imagine our country Celebrating our centennial And looking toward what it will be In 2076 Of course we were there But I love this because there's this utopian Idealism that we would eventually Come up to the promise of our creed Some of you might recognize the tune It's from the Methodist Timinal I'm going to dedicate it to my grandma She's up here, Minnie Clemens In Herpimer, New York She first voted in 1921 She was 31 years old And if any of you have any stories like that Of ancestors who voted for the first time Come up and tell me later It's just really inspiring So this is a hymn 100 years hence What a change will be made In politics, morals Religion and trade In statesmen who wrangle Or ride on the things Will be altered 100 years hence Our laws then will be Uncompulsory rules Our prisons converted to National schools The pleasure of sinning It's all a- Find it 100 oppression and war Will be heard of the slave He'll leave his print on the shore Conventions will beverage Instead of speechmaking To sadness We will join the glad chorus To sing I grew up in Seneca Falls, New York As my father used to say, before women's history So if any of you have been to the National Park there It's amazing When I grew up where they had the first convention In 1848 And had the Declaration of the Rights of Women It was a laundromat And there was like a little New York state sign So it's wonderful to go there And learn about this time So Elizabeth Cady Stanton I have two pictures of her One is with her daughter Harriet Very Victorian looking And one later on where she looks Kind of like a church lady But you know, she was such a radical And there was a lot of problems in the whole group Because she believed I read the women's Bible She believed the Bible Focused on the subjugation of women And she was willing to talk about it So people like Susan B. Anthony Lucretia Mott said, shut up People don't want to hear that right now But I thought she was pretty brave to do that Because she had seven children She stayed at home And she had this legal mind That allowed her to be the writer of the movement Susan B. Anthony was the one Who went around and tried to get people involved And Lucretia Mott Who went to the first Seneca Falls convention Was interested in women's rights But the last thing they said was Women should get the vote And Lucretia Mott, who was a Quaker, said Lizzie, don't put that in They will make us look ridiculous So it wasn't time even to talk about the vote It was just talk about things like Having a say in where your child's custody goes If the marriage ends Or a say in getting property that you inherit But the liquor lobby When they started going really got involved Because there was this current of reform Especially for the temperance movement My grandma was a member of the WCTU The Women's Christian Temperance Union And I used to think it was just a church lady thing But it wasn't They saw what alcohol was doing To families, to people in poverty To everybody And so they tried to get rid of that But of course they were opposed By all the liquor lobbies Who were making a good deal of money And they knew that once women could vote It would be prohibition So I'm going to dedicate this To the prominent temperance workers Because a lot of the songs I think unfortunately Pit the women who are pure Probably white And the men from other places On an island who are drunks The Irish workers who come in They're just undesirable voters And some of these songs are awkward to listen to Because you see them sort of saying As Christian women we know we should vote But these other people shouldn't There's a really embarrassing cover Of Life Magazine over there Where it shows a woman in a white gown In a parasol And the title is Four Voters And she's not one of them And the other voters are a gang member A black person And a drunken Irishman So that was part of their argument So Lucy Stone The woman who didn't change her name When she got married said It's easier to see a drunkard Than a principal So here in this next song The drunkard of course is an Irishman And they were talking about Christian women And Gog and Magog I had to look it up It's from the Old Testament And they were bad people apparently And they used a Scottish tune That you recognize called Going to the Poles If the men should see The women going to the Poles To put down the liquor traffic Needed vex their souls If we're angels as they tell us Then we won't suppose that all When going to the Poles We love our boys, our household joys We love our girls as well The love, love we cannot have The pit that we dare rebuild No discharge we've questioned women From the war with sin At the Poles with Gog and Magog So let's start fight to begin Since we Bible marching mortars Didn't fright us all Our girls as well A little bit about that big wave of immigration Which included my ancestors from Poland That made women worry About all these foreigners And should they be able to vote Or should undesirable people Like poor people be allowed to vote So that was a big issue I mean suffrage was something that Elizabeth Cady Stanton, my hero, Thought about but her daughter Harriet When she grew up she started working In New York City and she saw the immigrants They're working in horrible conditions And she thought that they can't make Any choices for their children's Purity of water or food or anything So she worked with unions there And what happened later on is that Black women started to understand that After the 1911 triangle shirt waste fire Women were locked in and they left to their death So they had a lot of debates about that And it ended up with both sides And they split into two which is really awful So the other thing I wanted to talk about Is when women were working For the abolition of slavery Black people to vote And so when that final thing came up After the Civil War Women were not included So they worked so hard And black men were getting the right to vote And they were not And that again led to a split in the People because they felt betrayed That they'd worked so hard But on the other hand people like Wendell Phillips who's another one of my heroes And abolitionists said the country could not Accept that much change at one time This is the Negro's hour Later on will be the women's hour And of course that took decades and decades This next song again has two people Debating suffrage and again Talking about the drunk man Who says he can vote And his women know their place I have a neighbor one of those Not very hard to He'll never change his mind I asked him what are women's rights His answer stames me Keep woman in her sphere I saw a man in tattered garb Wattered all his cash for drink And starved his wife at home I asked him should not women vote He answered with a smear I've taught my wife to know her place Keep woman in her sphere Choosing our sphere The early suffragists used the idea of Our sphere is the home We're just expanding it a little bit To do some housekeeping for the rest of the country Or for the poor people But this is saying women can choose their sphere And that was pretty radical Stanton actually went so far as to say That maternity itself should be voluntary And of course everybody went nuts And of course that's still in our world today And that was way before Margaret Sanger But the one thing I wanted to tell you about Is that it's awkward and it's nuanced But it's not as complicated Because women at the beginning were of some means They were able to travel perhaps They might have had help with the children at home Or with housekeeping And that's part of the movement at the beginning And there's a certain racism and xenophobia That's connected with that So I wanted to go back to New York City One of the reasons New York State got Suffer much before Vermont Is they had a lot of immigrants in New York City They had a lot of people who joined the unions And despite some opposition Because of cultural opposition to voting They got there faster And so this is a song that I'm going to dedicate To Ernestine Rose She was a Jew, she grew up in Poland Started a rabbi And she came to America for freedom But found that she could not own property So she started working on that Not necessarily voting But she worked with these women But then at one point she said Look, I was raised a Jew, but I'm an atheist And they said, be quiet There are a lot of church ladies in this group Be quiet But I'm really grateful that I found this song In the Library of Congress A lot of songs were written in the languages Of the workers, so this one's in Yiddish And to get the translation, I asked He's a representative from Vermont Who was brought up knowing Yiddish And it was sung in Bodville by Bessie Tomaszewski She was the queen of Yiddish theater And you can tell by this moment It's okay to be a suffragist You're not considered an ugly woman Who could never get a man Which is the way it started in the beginning So it's funny And then later on her grandchild Changed his name And I said Tomaszewski He became Tomasz And he's the conductor Michael Tilson Tomasz So here we go Anybody know Yiddish? Oh, good I'm trying my best, but it sounds like Yiddish It sounds like German The story here is that she's saying If we get the vote, we can take over the world And she said, women will have men have the babies So we can keep our flat stomachs And women can be the police And on every corner, when they arrest a man They'll let him go if he kisses them three times So it's basically taking the whole suffrage movement And having some light-hearted fun about it Well, the early ladies I talked about Were very gentile, but finally Being gentile only takes you so far And so Carrie Chapman, Kat, and others Like Alice Paul took more of a radical view Of how to get the change And so they saw that there was violent suppression Of the vote for African-Americans And poll taxes So they started looking at voter equality Which is still with us today They started to march, these huge marches 3,000 women in 1911, 1912, 10,000 marchers Again, with men helping to keep the peace And this was amazing Before President Wilson was inaugurated He was not a supporter of suffrage They had 250,000 onlookers And it was violence from the crowd But it was time to really make some Make some noise about this And Wilson, it was a southerner He was a state's wife man He was very conservative But finally he sort of drank the Kool-Aid Because during World War I Women stepped up into so much work They were ambulance drivers, they were helpers And they said, how can we not consider them citizens So finally, Kerry Chapman-Cat and Alice Paul She was trained in England Which is much more radical than that They decided to actually pick at the White House That was not done before, certainly not by women And you can see them, they were called the silent sentinels And they got beaten, they got taken to jail Some of them were force fed When I went on hunger strikes And people like one of the webs From the Shelburne family She went to Washington to hold a sign And what they were saying was Look, it's World War I, we're fighting for democracy Why is there not democracy at home? And one of the signs that really made people mad was Kaiser Wilson, how long must we wait for liberty? So it got pretty ugly And again, they almost got the 19th Amendment They needed one more vote Did they go to Vermont? No Did they go to Connecticut? No They went to Tennessee And first I thought, that's sort of strange But there's a great book called The Women's Hour It reads like a thriller, really What their argument was, it's embarrassing But they said, you know, with Jim Crow We can still let our white women vote We can clearly out-vote any black people Who managed to sneak through So it was one of those things, you know They had a reason, but they were national And they were at this famous hotel And the women, Sherri Kappman-Kapp And Alice Paul were downstairs The men from the legislature, they're all men Went upstairs to talk to the anti-suffrage men And it was called the Jack Daniels Suite Even though it was prohibition And they came down wearing their red roses Which indicated you were against women's suffrage And the women in the floor tried to convince them And it went back and forth It's amazing how they were working on one vote Maybe not, maybe one vote Finally, this one man who was the youngest legislator In the Tennessee legislature He stood up, he decided he was against women's suffrage He got a telegram from his mother He was a suffragist And she said, a boy should listen to his mother Please change your vote, and he did He did, so it did pass And then women got the vote in 1920-1921 in Vermont And there was only one woman from that early Seneca Falls Convention Who actually was alive then So all these women had worked all their lives But didn't get to do it And she was Charlotte Woodard She was an 18-year-old Quaker girl Who sewed gloves for a living She was from Globbersville, New York And she went with her friends And signed that declaration And then became an activist in Philadelphia Where a lot of the Quakers worked So when they were arguing for this They were smart not to use the union songs From the Civil War So this next one, they use a Confederate song You might recognize it It's called Bonnie Blue Flag And the idea is that Alice Paul would So a star on this big banner That she would put down whenever a state Said yes to the 19th Amendment And so this is the final battle Which they won There is a band of women And two are men are born Emerging from the darkness past And looking toward the morn Their mothers labored waited Through a night without a star The morning shoulder Suffered flag that bears the woman's star Her eye that bears the woman's star This band is all reforming War shall meet and pen The sword shall rust We'll use the brain the pen Layed in with precious freight now Thunders our progress car The headlight weighs our suffrage flag That bears the woman's star Her eye that bears the woman's star Her eye In 1920, 10 million women voted Three women for every five men Including Eleanor Roosevelt Against women's suffrage initially And the first lady who was Edith Wilson And my grandmother, many claimants And in Vermont it was 10,000 strong And they were able to boot the governor Who was against suffrage in part of the liquor lobby His name was Percival Clements And who came in is James Hartness Who's down here, he's a pro-suffrage man He was an industrialist from Springfield He actually hired women during the Civil War He paid them the same as men So that's a story I want to make sure It wasn't just women working But the story isn't over, you know that So it's hard won, but it's not done And I didn't know this until COVID Where I got to read a lot Native Americans were given the vote in 1948 There was a court case And finally, Utah was holding out And they finally got to give them the franchise 1962, it's astounding to me And then Chinese Americans We know a little bit about that story They got it in 1946 after the war And Japanese Americans in 1952 The year I was born And of course we know they're still Barriaged to voting all around the country So I think it's good for the final song To think about that range of strategies And that range of people who tried to work For justice in their communities In their parlors, in their state houses And Washington And it finally won, but it was 72 years And after this presentation, please come up I'll be up here and look at some of these Women, especially the Vermonters And some of the posters that we had Here in Vermont But this is the last song that comes From the same Tin Pan Alley company That published Gershwin So you hear that they was playing Something that's a little more Bodeo Do 1920s And also, there's a poster over here That said the type has changed At the beginning, the suffragists Where you looked as women with warts Who couldn't get a man And they were ugly And then the one on the right It's like she's fashionable She's sexy, she's independent So it's sort of neat the way It's changed over 72 years And became part of our culture But this also, like the first song Looks at motherhood But it's the best title She's good enough to be your baby's mother And she's good enough to vote with you It's greater than his mother He loves her love who guided To bear your troubles for you And if your tears were falling today Nobody else Men plunge this world in war Will hear her say Stop all your men We started with the battle Him and the Republic So many words over the years And I found a couple verses That are just charming Because it goes beyond What it used to be Which is when women can vote There will be no war There will be no inequity And of course we know Women vote all kinds of ways So this sort of talks about that And I'm going to ask you to join along With the very famous chorus Which is Glory, Glory, Hallelujah Because Pete Singer says The concert is not over Till the audience sings It's the right of every woman To walk out her path in life To be a saint and soldier Or a true and loving wife To fill the joy with gladness And recall the world from strife As she goes marching It's her right to serve her nation In its every hour of need Her right to sit in judgment On her country's faith and creed And show the world her courage by so much It's her right to train her children In the home and in the school To help in framing statutes And determine who shall rule And like man to cast her ballot For a statesman or a fool Thank you. Stay afterwards. We have some ladies tea. You don't have to wear your hats. But it's wonderful. And also come on up and talk to me About your stories if you haven't. Thank you so much.