When I came into your hall tonight, I thought of the last time I was in your city. Twenty-one years ago I came here with Susan B. Anthony, and we came for exactly the same purpose as that for which we are here tonight. Boys have been born since that time and have become voters, and the women are still trying to persuade American men to believe in the fundamental principles of democracy, and I never quite feel as if it was a fair field to argue this question with men, 今晚当我走进你们的大厅时，我想起了上次来你们城市的情景。二十一年前，我与苏珊·B·安东尼一起来到这里，我们当时的目的与今晚完全相同。从那时起，男孩们出生并长大成为选民，而妇女们仍在努力说服美国男性相信民主的基本原则。我总觉得与男性争论这个问题不太公平，
because in doing it you have to assume that a man who professes to believe in a Republican form of government does not believe in a Republican form of government, for the only thing that woman's enfranchisement means at all is that a government which claims to be a Republic should be a Republic, and not an aristocracy. 因为在这样做时，你不得不假设一个声称相信共和制政府的人实际上并不相信共和制政府，因为妇女选举权的唯一意义在于：一个声称是共和国的政府应该真正成为共和国，而不是贵族统治。
The difficulty with discussing this question with those who oppose us is that they make any number of arguments but none of them have anything to do with Woman's Suffrage; they always have something to do with something else, therefore the arguments which we have to make rarely ever have anything to do with the subject, because we have to answer our opponents who always escape the subject as far as possible in order to have any sort of reason in connection with what they say. 与反对我们的人讨论这个问题的困难在于，他们提出了各种各样的论点，但没有一个与妇女选举权有关；他们总是谈论别的事情。因此，我们不得不提出的论点也很少与主题相关，因为我们必须回答那些总是尽可能回避主题的反对者，以便让他们的言论看起来有某种合理性。
Now one of two things is true: either a Republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. If it is, then we should have it, if it is not then we ought not to pretend that we have it. We ought at least be true to our ideals, and the men of New York have for the first time in their lives, the rare opportunity on the second day of next November, of making the state truly a part of the Republic. 现在有两种情况必居其一：要么共和国是一种理想的政府形式，要么不是。如果是，那么我们应该拥有它；如果不是，那么我们就不应该假装拥有它。我们至少应该忠于我们的理想。纽约州的男性们在他们的一生中第一次有了一个难得的机会——在下个十一月的第二天，让这个州真正成为共和国的一部分。
It is the greatest opportunity which has ever come to the men of the state. They have never had so serious a problem to solve before, they will never have a more serious problem to solve in any future of our nation's life, and the thing that disturbs me more than anything else in connection with it is that so few people realize what a profound problem they have to solve on November 2. 这是该州男性有史以来面临的最大机遇。他们以前从未遇到过如此严肃的问题需要解决，在我们国家未来的任何时候也不会有更严肃的问题需要解决。而与此相关的最让我不安的是，很少有人意识到他们在11月2日必须解决的问题有多么深远。
It is not merely a trifling matter; it is not a little thing that does not concern the state, it is the most vital problem we could have, and any man who goes to the polls on the second day of next November without thoroughly informing himself in regard to this subject is unworthy to be a citizen of this state, and unfit to cast a ballot. 这不仅仅是一件小事；这不是一件与国家无关的小事，这是我们可能面临的最重大的问题。任何一个在下个十一月的第二天去投票站却没有充分了解这个问题的人，都不配成为这个州的公民，也不适合投票。
If woman's suffrage is wrong, it is a great wrong; if it is right, it is a profound and fundamental principle, and we all know, if we know what a Republic is, that it is the fundamental principle upon which a Republic must rise. Let us see where we are as a people; how we act here and what we think we are. 如果妇女选举权是错误的，那它是一个大错误；如果它是正确的，那它是一个深刻而根本的原则。我们都知道，如果我们知道什么是共和国，我们就知道这是共和国必须建立的基本原则。让我们看看我们作为一个民族所处的位置；我们在这里的行为以及我们认为自己是什么。
The difficulty with the men of this country is that they are so consistent in their inconsistency that they are not aware of having been inconsistent; because their consistency has been so continuous and their inconsistency so consecutive that it has never been broken, from the beginning of our Nation's life to the present time. 这个国家的男性的问题在于，他们在不一致中如此一致，以至于他们没有意识到自己是不一致的；因为他们的一致性如此持续，他们的不一致性如此连续，从我们国家诞生之初到现在从未中断过。
If we trace our history back we will find that from the very dawn of our existence as a people, men have been imbued with a spirit and a vision more lofty than they have been able to live; they have been led by visions of the sublimest truth, both in regard to religion and in regard to government that ever inspired the souls of men from the time the Puritans left the old world to come to this country, 如果我们追溯历史，我们会发现，从我们作为一个民族存在的最初时刻起，男性就被一种比他们能够践行的更崇高的精神和愿景所激励；他们被最崇高的真理的愿景所引导，无论是在宗教方面还是在政府方面，这些真理从清教徒离开旧世界来到这个国家时起就激励着人们的灵魂，
led by the Divine ideal which is the sublimest and the supremest ideal in religious freedom which men have ever known, the theory that a man has a right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, without the intervention of any other man or any other group of men. And it was this theory, this vision of the right of the human soul which led men first to the shores of this country. 他们被神圣的理想所引导，这是人类已知的最崇高、最至上的宗教自由理想——即一个人有权根据自己的良心崇拜上帝，不受任何其他人或任何其他群体的干预。正是这种理论，这种人类灵魂权利的愿景，引导人们首先来到这个国家的海岸。
Now, nobody can deny that they are sincere, honest, and earnest men. No one can deny that the Puritans were men of profound conviction, and yet these men who gave up everything in behalf of an ideal, hardly established their communities in this new country before they began to practice exactly the same sort of persecutions on other men which had been practiced upon them. 现在，没有人能否认他们是真诚、诚实和认真的人。没有人能否认清教徒们有着深刻的信念。然而，这些为了一个理想放弃一切的人，在这个新国家建立他们的社区后不久，就开始对其他人实施与曾经对他们实施的完全相同的迫害。
They settled in their communities on the New England shores and when they formed their compacts by which they governed their local societies, they permitted no man to have a voice in the affairs unless he was a member of the church, and not a member of any church, but a member of the particular church which dominated the particular community in which he happened to be. 他们在新英格兰海岸建立了社区，当他们制定管理当地社会的契约时，他们不允许任何人参与事务，除非他是教会成员，而且不是任何教会的成员，而是他所在的特定社区中占主导地位的特定教会的成员。
In Massachusetts they drove the Baptists down to Rhode Island; in Connecticut they drove the Presbyterians over to New Jersey; they burned the Quakers in Massachusetts and ducked the witches, and no colony, either Catholic or Protestant allowed a Jew to have a voice. 在马萨诸塞州，他们把浸信会教徒赶到罗德岛；在康涅狄格州，他们把长老会教徒赶到新泽西；他们在马萨诸塞州烧死贵格会教徒，把女巫浸入水中。没有一个殖民地，无论是天主教还是新教，允许犹太人有发言权。
And so a man must worship God according to the conscience of the particular community in which he was located, and yet they called that religious freedom, they were not able to live the ideal of religious liberty, and from that time to this the men of this government have been following along the same line of inconsistency, while they too have been following a vision of equal grandeur and power. 因此，一个人必须根据他所在的特定社区的良心来崇拜上帝。然而，他们称之为宗教自由。他们无法践行宗教自由的理想。从那时到现在，这个政府的男性一直在沿着同样的不一致路线前进，尽管他们也一直在追求同样宏伟和强大的愿景。
Never in the history of the world did it dawn upon the human mind as it dawned upon your ancestors, what it would mean for men to be free. They got the vision of a government in which the people would be the supreme power, and so inspired by this vision men wrote such documents as were sent from the Massachusetts legislature, from the New York legislature and from the Pennsylvania group over to the Parliament of Great Britain, which rang with the profoundest measures of freedom and justice. 世界历史上从未像你们的祖先那样，人类的思想如此深刻地领悟到自由对人类意味着什么。他们看到了一个人民成为最高权力的政府的愿景。在这个愿景的激励下，人们写下了从马萨诸塞州立法机构、纽约州立法机构和宾夕法尼亚州团体发送到大不列颠议会的文件，这些文件充满了最深刻的自由和正义措施。
They did not equivocate in a single word when they wrote the Declaration of Independence; no one can dream that these men had not got the sublimest ideal of democracy which had ever dawned upon the souls of men. 他们在撰写《独立宣言》时没有含糊其辞；没有人能想象这些人没有拥有人类灵魂所领悟到的最崇高的民主理想。
But as soon as the war was over and our government was formed, instead of asking the question, who shall be the governing force in this great new Republic, when they brought those thirteen little territories together, they began to eliminate instead of include the men who should be the great governing forces, 但战争一结束，我们的政府一成立，当他们把这十三个小领土联合起来时，他们没有问谁应该成为这个伟大新共和国的统治力量，而是开始排除而不是纳入应该成为伟大统治力量的人，
and they said, who shall have the voice in this great new Republic, and you would have supposed that such men as fought the Revolutionary War would have been able to answer that every man who has fought, everyone who has given up all he has and all he has been able to accumulate shall be free, it never entered their minds. 他们说，谁应该在这个伟大的新共和国中有发言权？你会认为那些参加革命战争的人能够回答，每个战斗过的人、每个放弃了他所拥有的一切和他所能积累的一切的人都应该享有自由，但这个想法从未进入他们的脑海。
These excellent ancestors of yours had not been away from the old world long enough to realize that man is of more value than his purse, so they said every man who has an estate in the government shall have a voice; and they said what shall that estate be? And they answered that a man who had property valued at two hundred and fifty dollars will be able to cast a vote, and so they sang "The land of the free and the home of the brave." 你们这些优秀的祖先离开旧世界还不够久，没有意识到人比他的钱包更有价值。所以他们说，每个在政府中拥有财产的人都应该有发言权；他们问，那财产应该是什么？他们回答说，一个拥有价值两百五十美元财产的人将能够投票。于是他们唱道："自由之地，勇敢之家。"
And they wrote into their Constitution, "All males who pay taxes on $250 shall cast a vote," and they called themselves a Republic, and we call ourselves a Republic, and they were not quite so much of a Republic that we should be called a Republic yet. We might call ourselves angels, but that wouldn't make us angels, you have got to be an angel before you are an angel, and you have got to be a Republic before you are a Republic. 他们在宪法中写道："所有缴纳250美元税款的男性都应投票。"他们称自己为共和国，我们也称自己为共和国，但他们还不够像共和国，我们也不应该被称为共和国。我们可以称自己为天使，但那不会让我们成为天使。在成为天使之前，你必须先成为天使；在成为共和国之前，你必须先成为共和国。
Now what did we do? Before the word "male" in the local compacts, they wrote the word "Church-members"; and they wrote in the word "taxpayer." 现在我们做了什么？在地方契约中的"男性"一词之前，他们写了"教会成员"一词；后来又写了"纳税人"一词。
Then there arose a great Democrat, Thomas Jefferson, who looked down into the day when you and I are living and saw that the rapidly accumulated wealth in the hands of a few men would endanger the liberties of the people, and he knew what you and I know, that no power under heaven or among men is known in a Republic by which men can defend their liberties except by the power of the ballot, 然后出现了一位伟大的民主党人托马斯·杰斐逊，他展望了我们今天生活的时代，看到少数人手中迅速积累的财富将危及人民的自由。他知道我们都知道的事：在共和国中，除了投票权的力量之外，没有任何力量可以让人们捍卫自己的自由，
and so the Democratic party took another step in the evolution of the Republic out of a monarchy and they rubbed out the word "taxpayer" and wrote in the word "white", and then the Democrats thought the millennium had come, and they sang "The land of the free and the home of the brave" as lustily as the Republicans had sung it before them and spoke of the divine right of motherhood with the same thrill in their voices and at the same time they were selling mother's babies by the pound on the auction block—and mothers apart from their babies. 因此，民主党在从君主制向共和国的演变中又迈出了一步，他们擦掉了"纳税人"一词，写上了"白人"一词。然后民主党人认为千禧年已经到来，他们像共和党人之前一样热情地唱着"自由之地，勇敢之家"，用同样激动的声音谈论母性的神圣权利，同时他们在拍卖台上按磅出售母亲的婴儿——并将母亲与婴儿分开。
Another arose who said a man is not a good citizen because he is white, he is a good citizen because he is a man, and the Republican party took out that progressive evolutionary eraser and rubbed out the word "white" from before the word "male" and could not think of another word to put in there— 又出现了一个人，他说一个人不是因为是白人而成为好公民，而是因为是人而成为好公民。共和党人拿出那块进步的进化橡皮擦，擦掉了"男性"一词前面的"白人"一词，却想不出另一个词放进去——
they were all in, black and white, rich and poor, wise and otherwise, drunk and sober; not a man left out to be put in, and so the Republicans could not write anything before the word "male", and they had to let the little word, "male" stay alone by itself. 所有的人都包括在内了，黑人和白人，富人和穷人，聪明人和其他人，醉汉和清醒的人；没有一个人被遗漏需要纳入。因此，共和党人无法在"男性"一词前写任何东西，他们不得不让这个小小的"男性"词独自留在那里。
And God said in the beginning, "It is not good for man to stand alone." That is why we are here tonight, and that is all that woman's suffrage means; just to repeat again and again that first declaration of the Divine, "It is not good for man to stand alone," 上帝在创世之初说："人独居不好。"这就是我们今晚站在这里的原因，这也是妇女选举权的全部意义；只是一遍又一遍地重复神的第一个宣告："人独居不好，"
and so the women of this state are asking that the word "male" shall be stricken out of the Constitution altogether and that the Constitution stand as it ought to have stood in the beginning and as it must before this state is any part of a Republic. Every citizen possessing the necessary qualifications shall be entitled to cast one vote at every election, and have that vote counted. 因此，这个州的妇女们要求将"男性"一词从宪法中完全删除，让宪法像它一开始应该的那样，也像这个州成为共和国一部分之前必须的那样。每个具备必要资格的公民都应有权在每次选举中投一票，并让这一票被计算在内。
We are not asking as our Anti-Suffrage friends think we are, for any of awful things that we hear will happen if we are allowed to vote; we are simply asking that that government which professes to be a Republic shall be a Republic and not pretend to be what it is not. 我们不像反选举权的朋友们认为的那样，要求获得那些据说如果允许我们投票就会发生的可怕事情；我们只是要求那个声称是共和国的政府真正成为共和国，而不是假装它不是的样子。
Now what is a Republic? Take your dictionary, encyclopedia lexicon or anything else you like and look up the definition and you will find that a Republic is a form of government in which the laws are enacted by representatives elected by the people. 什么是共和国？拿你的词典、百科全书或任何你喜欢的东西，查一下定义，你会发现共和国是一种由人民选举产生的代表制定法律的政府形式。
Now when did the people of New York ever elect their own representatives? Never in the world. The men of New York have, and I grant you that men are people, admirable people, as far as they go, but they only go half way. There is still another half of the people who have not elected representatives, and you never read a definition of a Republic in which half of the people elect representatives to govern the whole of the people. 纽约人民什么时候选举过自己的代表？从来没有。纽约的男性们选举过，我承认男性是人，是令人钦佩的人，但他们只走了一半的路。还有另一半人民没有选举代表，你从未读过一个共和国的定义，其中一半的人选举代表来统治全体人民。
That is an aristocracy and that is just what we are. We have been many kinds of aristocracies. We have been a hierarchy of church members, than an oligarchy of sex. 那是贵族统治，而那正是我们现在的状况。我们曾经是多种形式的贵族统治：先是教会成员的等级制度，然后是性别的寡头统治。
There are two old theories, which are dying today. Dying hard, but dying. One of them is dying on the plains of Flanders and the Mountains of Galicia and Austria, and that is the theory of the divine right of kings. 有两种旧理论正在消亡。艰难地消亡，但确实在消亡。其中一种正在法兰德斯平原和加利西亚及奥地利的山脉上消亡，那就是君权神授理论。
The other is dying here in the state of New York and Massachusetts and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and that is the divine right of sex. Neither of them had a foundation in reason, or justice, or common sense. 另一种正在纽约州、马萨诸塞州、新泽西州和宾夕法尼亚州消亡，那就是性权神授理论。这两种理论都没有理性、正义或常识的基础。
Now I want to make this proposition, and I believe every man will accept it. Of course he will if he is intelligent. Whenever a Republic prescribes the qualifications as applying equally to all the citizens of the Republic, when the Republic says in order to vote, a citizen must be twenty-one years of age, it applies to all alike, there is no discrimination against any race or sex. 现在我想提出这个主张，我相信每个男人都会接受。当然，如果他是明智的，他会接受。每当一个共和国规定的资格平等适用于共和国的所有公民时，当共和国说为了投票，公民必须年满二十一岁时，它平等适用于所有人，没有对任何种族或性别的歧视。
When the government says that a citizen must be a native-born citizen or a naturalized citizen that applies to all; we are either born or naturalized, somehow or other we are here. Whenever the government says that a citizen, in order to vote, must be a resident of a community a certain length of time, and of the state a certain length of time and of the nation a certain length of time, that applies to all equally. There is no discrimination. 当政府说公民必须是土生公民或归化公民时，这适用于所有人；我们要么是土生的，要么是归化的，总之我们在这里。每当政府说公民为了投票必须在一个社区居住一定时间，在州内居住一定时间，在国家内居住一定时间时，这平等适用于所有人。没有歧视。
We might go further and we might say that in order to vote the citizen must be able to read his ballot. We have not gone that far yet. We have been very careful of male ignorance in these United States. 我们可能会更进一步，说为了投票，公民必须能够阅读他的选票。我们还没有走到那一步。在这些美国，我们对男性的无知一直非常宽容。
I was much interested, as perhaps many of you, in reading the Congressional Record this last winter over the debate over the immigration bill, and when that illiteracy clause was introduced into the immigration bill, what fear there was in the souls of men for fear we would do injustice to some of the people who might want to come to our shores, 像你们许多人一样，去年冬天我在读国会记录中关于移民法案的辩论时非常感兴趣。当那个文盲条款被纳入移民法案时，人们心中充满了恐惧，担心我们会对一些可能想来我们海岸的人不公正，
and I was much interested in the language in which the President vetoed the bill, when he declared that by inserting the clause we would keep out of our shores a large body of very excellent people. I could not help wondering then how it happens that male ignorance is so much less ignorant than female ignorance. 我对总统否决该法案时使用的措辞也非常感兴趣，他宣称通过插入该条款，我们将把一大批非常优秀的人拒之门外。我不禁想知道，为什么男性的无知比女性的无知不那么无知。
When I hear people say that if women were permitted to vote a large body of ignorant people would vote, and therefore because an ignorant woman would vote, no intelligent women should be allowed to vote, I wonder why we have made it so easy for male ignorance and so hard for female ignorance. 当我听到人们说如果允许妇女投票，一大群无知的人会投票，因此因为一个无知的妇女会投票，就不应该允许任何聪明的妇女投票时，我想知道为什么我们对男性的无知如此宽容，而对女性的无知如此苛刻。
When I was a girl, years ago, I lived in the back woods and there the number of votes cast at each election depended entirely upon the size of the ballot box. We had what was known as the old tissue ballots and the man who got the most tissue in was the man elected. 多年前我还是个女孩的时候，我住在偏远地区，那里每次选举的投票人数完全取决于投票箱的大小。我们有所谓的旧薄纸选票，谁塞进的薄纸最多，谁就当选。
Now the best part of our community was very much disturbed by this method, and they did not know what to do in order to get a ballot both safe and secret; but they heard that over in Australia, where the women voted, they had a ballot which was both safe and secret, so we went over there and we got the Australian ballot and we brought it here. 我们社区最好的那部分人对这种方法非常不满，他们不知道该怎么做才能获得既安全又保密的选票；但他们听说在澳大利亚，妇女有投票权，她们有一种既安全又保密的选票，所以我们去了那里，引进了澳大利亚选票，并把它带到了这里。
But when we got it over we found it was not adapted to this country, because in Australia they have to be able to read their ballot. Now the question was how could we adapt it to our conditions? Someone discovered that if you should put a symbol at the head of each column, like a rooster, or an eagle, or a hand holding a hammer, that if a man has intelligence to know the difference between a rooster and an eagle he will know which political party to vote for, and when the ballot was adapted it was a very beautiful ballot, it looked like a page from Life. 但当我们引进它时，我们发现它不适合这个国家，因为在澳大利亚，人们必须能够阅读他们的选票。现在的问题是，我们如何使它适应我们的情况？有人发现，如果你在每列的顶部放一个符号，比如一只公鸡，或一只鹰，或一只握着锤子的手，如果一个人有足够的智力知道公鸡和鹰的区别，他就会知道该投票给哪个政党。当选票被改编后，它成了一张非常漂亮的选票，看起来像《生活》杂志的一页。
Now almost any American could vote that ballot, or if she had not that intelligence to know the difference between an eagle and a rooster, we could take the eagle out and put in the hen. Now when we take so much pains to adapt the ballot to the male intelligence of the United States, we should be very humble when we talk about female ignorance. 现在几乎任何美国人都可以投那张票，或者如果她没有足够的智力知道鹰和公鸡的区别，我们可以把鹰拿出来，换成母鸡。现在，当我们如此煞费苦心地使选票适应美国男性的智力时，我们在谈论女性无知时应该非常谦逊。
Now if we should take a vote and the men had to read their ballot in order to vote it, more women could vote than men. But when the government says not only that you must be twenty-one years of age, a resident of the community and native born or naturalized, those are qualifications, but when it says that an elector must be a male, that is not a qualification for citizenship; 现在，如果我们进行一次投票，而男性必须阅读他们的选票才能投票，那么能够投票的女性会比男性多。但当政府说你不仅必须年满二十一岁，必须是社区居民，必须是土生或归化公民时，这些是资格，但当它说选举人必须是男性时，那不是公民资格；
that is an insurmountable barrier between one half of the people and the other half of the citizens and their rights as citizens. No such nation can call itself a Republic. It is only an aristocracy. 那是一半人民和另一半公民及其公民权利之间不可逾越的障碍。任何这样的国家都不能自称共和国。它只是一个贵族统治。
That barrier must be removed before the government can become a Republic, and that is exactly what we are asking right now, that the last step in the evolutionary process be taken on November 2d. and that this great state of New York shall become in fact as it is in theory, a part of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. 在政府能够成为共和国之前，必须消除这一障碍，这正是我们现在所要求的：在11月2日迈出进化过程的最后一步，让纽约这个伟大的州在事实上像在理论上一样，成为一个民有、民治、民享的政府的一部分。
Men know the inconsistencies themselves; they realize it in one way while they do not realize it in another, because you never heard a man make a political speech when he did not speak of this country as a whole as though the thing existed which does not exist and that is that the people were equally free, because you hear them declare over and over again on the Fourth of July "under God the people rule." 男性自己知道这些不一致之处；他们在某种程度上意识到了，但在另一种程度上没有意识到。因为你从未听过一个男人在发表政治演讲时不把这个国家当作一个整体来谈论，仿佛那个不存在的东西确实存在，即人民是平等自由的。因为你会听到他们在七月四日一遍又一遍地宣称"在上帝之下，人民统治"。
They know it is not true, but they say it with a great hurrah, and they repeat over and over again that clause from the Declaration of Independence. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," and they see how they can prevent half of us from giving our consent to anything, 他们知道这不是真的，但他们大声欢呼着说出来，他们一遍又一遍地重复《独立宣言》中的那句话："政府的正当权力来自被统治者的同意。"他们看到了如何阻止我们一半人对任何事情表示同意，
and then they give it to us on the Fourth of July in two languages, so if it is not true in one it will be in the other, "vox populi, vox Dei." "The voice of the people is the voice of God," and the orator forgets that in the people's voice there is a soprano as well as a bass. 然后他们在七月四日用两种语言把这句话告诉我们，这样如果一种语言是假的，另一种就是真的："vox populi, vox Dei"（人民的声音就是上帝的声音）。而演说家忘记了，在人民的声音中，既有女高音也有男低音。
If the voice of the people is the voice of God, how are we ever going to know what God's voice is when we are content to listen to a bass solo? Now if it is true that the voice of the people is the voice of God, we will never know what the Deity's voice in government is until the bass and soprano are mingled together, the result of which will be the divine harmony. 如果人民的声音就是上帝的声音，那么当我们满足于只听男低音独唱时，我们怎么可能知道上帝的声音是什么？现在，如果人民的声音确实是上帝的声音，那么我们永远不会知道上帝在政府中的声音是什么，直到男低音和女高音混合在一起，结果将是神圣的和谐。
Take any of the magnificent appeals for freedom, which men make, and rob them of their universal application and you take the very life and soul out of them. 拿走男性发出的任何壮丽的自由呼吁的普遍适用性，你就拿走了它的生命和灵魂。
Where is the difficulty? Just in one thing and one thing only, that men are so sentimental. We used to believe that women were the sentimental sex, but they can not hold a tallow candle compared with the arc light of the men. Men are so sentimental in their attitude about women that they cannot reason about them. 困难在哪里？就在一件事上，只有一件事：男性太情绪化了。我们曾经认为女性是情绪化的性别，但与男性的弧光灯相比，她们根本不值一提。男性对女性的态度如此情绪化，以至于他们无法理性地看待她们。
Now men are usually very fair to each other. I think the average man recognizes that he has no more right to anything at the hands of the government than has every other man. He has no right at all to anything to which every other man has not an equal right with himself. 现在，男性通常对彼此非常公平。我认为普通男性认识到，他在政府手中没有任何权利是其他男性没有的。他根本没有任何权利是其他男性没有平等权利的。
He says why have I a right to certain things in the government; why have I a right to life and liberty; why have I a right to this or this? Does he say because I am a man? Not at all, because I am human, and being human I have a right to everything which belongs to humanity, and every right which any other human being has, I have. 他说，为什么我在政府中有某些权利；为什么我有生命权和自由权；为什么我有这个或那个权利？他会说因为我是男人吗？一点也不，因为我是人，作为人，我有权拥有属于人类的一切，任何其他人拥有的权利，我都拥有。
And then he says of his neighbor, and my neighbor he also is human, therefore every right which belongs to me as a human being, belongs to him as a human being, and I have no right to anything under the government to which he is not equally entitled. 然后他说我的邻居，我的邻居也是人，因此作为人属于我的每一项权利，也属于他作为人，我在政府下没有任何权利是他没有平等资格的。
And then up comes a woman, and then they say now she's a woman; she is not quite human, but she is my wife, or my sister, or my daughter, or an aunt, or my cousin. She is not quite human; she is only related to a human, and being related to a human a human will take care of her. 然后一个女人出现了，他们说她是女人；她不完全是人，但她是我的妻子，或我的姐妹，或我的女儿，或我的姑姑，或我的表妹。她不完全是人；她只是与人有关，因为与人有关，人会照顾她。
So we have had that care-taking human being to look after us and they have not recognized that women too are equally human with men. Now if men could forget for a minute and believe the anti-suffragists say that we want men to forget that we are related to them, they don't know men, if for a minute they could forget our relationship and remember that we are equally human with themselves, 所以我们一直有那个照顾我们的人，他们没有认识到妇女也与男性一样是人。现在，如果男性能暂时忘记——反女权主义者说我们希望男性忘记我们与他们的关系，他们不了解男性——如果他们能暂时忘记我们的关系，记住我们与他们一样是人，
then they would say, yes, and this human being, not because she is a woman, but because she is human is entitled to every privilege and every right under the government which I, as a human being am entitled to. 那么他们会说，是的，这个人，不是因为她是女人，而是因为她是人，有权享有政府下的每一项特权和每一项权利，就像我作为人有权享有的一样。
The only reason men do not see as fairly in regard to women as they do in regard to each other is because they have looked upon us from an altogether different plane than what they have looked at men; that is because women have been the homemakers while men have been the so-called protectors, in the period of the world's civilization when people needed to be protected. 男性不能像对待彼此那样公平地看待女性的唯一原因是，他们从一个与看待男性完全不同的层面来看待我们；那是因为在世界文明的某个时期，当人们需要被保护时，女性一直是家庭的创造者，而男性一直是所谓的保护者。
I know that they say that men protect us now and when we ask them what they are protecting us from the only answer they can give is from themselves. I do not think that men need any very great credit for protecting us from themselves. 我知道他们说男性现在保护我们，当我们问他们在保护我们免受什么伤害时，他们能给出的唯一答案是免受他们自己的伤害。我不认为男性需要因为保护我们免受他们自己的伤害而获得很大的荣誉。
They are not protecting us from any special thing from which we could not protect ourselves except themselves. Now this old time idea of protection was all right when the world needed this protection, but today the protection in civilization comes from within and not from without. 他们并没有保护我们免受任何我们无法自己保护的特殊事物，除了他们自己。现在，这种古老的保护观念在世界需要这种保护时是没问题的，但今天文明中的保护来自内部，而不是外部。
What are the arguments, which our good Anti-friends give us? We know that lately they have stopped to argue and call suffragists all sorts of creatures. If there is anything we believe that we do not believe, we have not heard about them, so the cry goes out of this; the cry of the infant's mind; the cry of a little child. 我们那些反女权的朋友们给我们什么论点？我们知道最近他们已经停止争论，并称女权主义者为各种生物。如果有任何我们相信但实际上不相信的东西，我们还没有听说过，所以他们发出的呼声是；婴儿心灵的呼声；小孩子的呼声。
The anti-suffragists' cries are all the cries of little children who are afraid of the unborn and are forever crying, "The goblins will catch you if you don't watch out." So that anything that has not been should not be and all that is right, when as a matter of fact if the world believed that we would be in a static condition and never move, except back like a crab. And so the cry goes on. 反女权主义者的呼声都是害怕未知事物的小孩子的呼声，他们永远在喊："小心，妖精会抓住你。"所以任何尚未存在的东西都不应该存在，所有存在的都是正确的。但事实上，如果世界相信这一点，我们将处于静止状态，永远不会前进，除非像螃蟹一样向后退。因此，呼声继续着。
When suffragists are feminists, and when I ask what that is no one is able to tell me. I would give anything to know what a feminist is. They say, would you like to be a feminist? If I could find out I would, you either have to be masculine or feminine and I prefer feminine. 当女权主义者被称为女性主义者时，当我问那是什么时，没有人能够告诉我。我愿意付出任何代价来知道什么是女性主义者。他们说，你想成为女性主义者吗？如果我能弄清楚，我会的。你要么必须是男性化的，要么是女性化的，我更喜欢女性化的。
Then they cry that we are socialists, and anarchists. Just how a human can be both at the same time, I really do not know. If I know what socialism means it means absolute government and anarchism means no government at all. 然后他们叫嚷说我们是社会主义者和无政府主义者。我真的不知道一个人怎么能同时既是社会主义者又是无政府主义者。如果我知道社会主义意味着什么，它意味着绝对的政府，而无政府主义意味着没有政府。
So we are feminists, socialists, anarchists, and Mormons or spinsters. Now that is about the list. I have not heard the last speech. Now as a matter of fact, as a unit we are nothing, as individuals we are like all other individuals. 所以我们是女性主义者、社会主义者、无政府主义者，还有摩门教徒或老处女。现在这差不多就是全部了。我还没有听到最后一次演讲。但事实上，作为一个整体，我们什么都不是；作为个人，我们和其他所有人一样。
We have our theories, our beliefs, but as suffragists we have but one belief, but one principle, but one theory and that is the right of a human being to have a voice in the government, under which he or she lives, on that we agree, if on nothing else. 我们有我们的理论，我们的信念，但作为女权主义者，我们只有一个信念，一个原则，一个理论，那就是一个人有权在他或她所生活的政府中有发言权。在这一点上，我们达成一致，即使在其他方面不一致。
Whether we agree or not on religion or politics we are concerned. A clergyman asked me the other day, "By the way, what church does your official board belong to?" I said I don't know. He said, "Don't you know what religion your official board believes?" 无论我们在宗教或政治上是否一致，我们都关心这一点。有一天一位牧师问我："顺便问一下，你的官方董事会属于哪个教会？"我说我不知道。他说："你不知道你的官方董事会相信什么宗教吗？"
I said, "Really it never occurred to me, but I will look them up and see, they are not elected to my board because they believe in any particular church. We had no concern either as to what we believe as religionists or as to what we believe as women in regard to theories of government, except that one fundamental theory in the right of democracy. 我说："真的，我从来没想过，但我会查一下看看。他们不是因为相信某个特定的教会而被选入我的董事会的。我们既不关心作为宗教信徒我们相信什么，也不关心作为女性我们对政府理论的看法，除了民主权利这一基本原则。
We do not believe in this fad or the other, but whenever any question is to be settled in any community, then the people of that community shall settle that question, the women people equally with the men people. That is all there is to it, and yet when it comes to arguing our case they bring up all sorts of arguments, and the beauty of it is they always answer all their own arguments. They never make an argument, but they answer it. When I was asked to answer one of their debates I said, "What is the use? Divide up their literature and let them destroy themselves." 我们不相信这个或那个时尚，但每当任何社区需要解决任何问题时，该社区的人民应该解决这个问题，女性人民与男性人民平等。这就是全部。然而，当他们争论我们的情况时，他们提出了各种各样的论点，而美妙的是，他们总是自己回答自己的论点。他们从未提出一个论点，但他们回答了它。当有人请我回答他们的辩论时，我说："有什么用？把他们的文献分发给他们，让他们自我毁灭。"
I was followed up last year by a young, married woman from New Jersey. She left her husband home for three months to tell the women that their place was at home, and that they could not leave home long enough to go to the ballot box, and she brought all her arguments out in pairs and backed them up by statistics. 去年有一位来自新泽西的年轻已婚妇女跟着我。她把丈夫留在家里三个月，去告诉妇女们她们的位置在家里，她们不能离开家足够长的时间去投票站。她把所有的论点成对地提出来，并用统计数据支持它们。
The anti-suffragists can gather more statistics than any other person I ever saw, and there is nothing so sweet and calm as when they say, "You cannot deny this, because here are the figures, and figures never lie." Well they don't but some liars figure. 反女权主义者收集的统计数据比我见过的任何人都多，没有什么比他们说"你无法否认这一点，因为这里有数据，数据不会说谎"时更甜蜜和冷静的了。嗯，数据不会说谎，但有些说谎者会编造数据。
When they start out they always begin the same. She started by proving that it was no use to give the women the ballot because if they did have it they would not use it, and she had statistics to prove it. 当他们开始时，他们总是以同样的方式开始。她首先证明给妇女选票是没有用的，因为即使她们有选票，她们也不会使用它，她有统计数据来证明这一点。
If we would not use it then I really can not see the harm of giving it to us, we would not hurt anybody with it and what an easy way for you men to get rid of us. No more suffrage meetings, never any nagging you again, no one could blame you for anything that went wrong with the town, if it did not run right, all you would have to say is, you have the power, why don't you go ahead and clean up. 如果我们不使用它，那么我真的看不出给我们选票有什么害处，我们不会用它伤害任何人，这对你们男性来说是摆脱我们的多么容易的方式。不再有选举权会议，不再有唠叨，没有人能因为镇上出了什么问题而责怪你们，如果事情运行不正常，你们所要做的就是说，你们有权力，为什么不继续清理呢。
Then the young lady, unfortunately for her first argument, proved by statistics, of which she had many, the awful results which happened where women did have the ballot; what awful laws have been brought about by women's vote; the conditions that prevail in the homes and how deeply women get interested in politics, 然后这位年轻女士，不幸的是，她用许多统计数据证明了妇女确实有选票的地方发生的可怕结果；妇女投票带来了多么可怕的法律；家庭中盛行的状况以及妇女对政治有多么浓厚的兴趣，
because women are hysterical, and we can not think of anything else, we just forget our families, cease to care for our children, cease to love our husbands and just go to the polls and vote and keep on voting for ten hours a day 365 days in the year, never let up, if we ever get to the polls once you will never get us home, so that the women will not vote at all, and they will not do anything but vote. 因为妇女是歇斯底里的，我们无法思考其他任何事情，我们只是忘记了我们的家庭，不再关心我们的孩子，不再爱我们的丈夫，只是去投票站投票，并一年365天每天投票十个小时，永不停止。如果我们一旦到达投票站，你们永远无法让我们回家。因此，妇女根本不会投票，她们只会投票。
Now these are two very strong anti-suffrage arguments and they can prove them by figures. Then they will tell you that if women are permitted to vote it will be a great expense and no use because wives will vote just as their husbands do; even if we have no husbands, that would not affect the result because we would vote just as our husbands would vote if we had one. 现在这是两个非常有力的反女权论点，她们可以用数据证明它们。然后她们会告诉你，如果允许妇女投票，这将是巨大的开支，而且没有用，因为妻子们会和她们的丈夫投同样的票；即使我们没有丈夫，那也不会影响结果，因为我们会和我们有丈夫时一样投票。
How I wish the anti-suffragists could make the men believe that; if they could make men believe that the women would vote just as they wanted them to do you think we would ever have to make another speech or hold another meeting, we would have to vote whether we wanted to or not. 我多么希望反女权主义者能让男性相信这一点；如果她们能让男性相信妇女会按照他们希望的方式投票，你认为我们还需要再发表一次演讲或举行另一次会议吗？我们将不得不投票，不管我们想不想。
And then the very one who will tell you that women will vote just as their husbands do will tell you in five minutes that they will not vote as their husbands will and then the discord in the homes, and the divorce. 然后那个告诉你妇女会和她们的丈夫投同样的票的人，五分钟后会告诉你她们不会和她们的丈夫投同样的票，然后家庭中的不和以及离婚就会发生。
Why, they have discovered that in Colorado there are more divorces than there were before women began to vote, but they have forgotten to tell you that there are four times as many people in Colorado today as there were when women began to vote, and that may have some effect, particularly as these people went from the East. Then they will tell you all the trouble that happens in the home. 为什么，她们发现科罗拉多州的离婚比妇女开始投票前更多，但她们忘记告诉你，科罗拉多州今天的人口是妇女开始投票时的四倍，这可能有一些影响，尤其是因为这些人来自东部。然后她们会告诉你家庭中发生的所有麻烦。
A gentleman told me that in California and when he was talking I had a wonderful thing pass through my mind, because he said that he and his wife had lived together for twenty years and never had a difference in opinion in the whole twenty years and he was afraid if women began to vote that his wife would vote differently from him and then that beautiful harmony which they had had for twenty years would be broken, 一位绅士告诉我，在加利福尼亚州，当他说话时，我脑子里闪过一件美妙的事情，因为他说他和他的妻子一起生活了二十年，在这整个二十年里从未有过意见分歧，他担心如果妇女开始投票，他的妻子会和他投不同的票，然后他们二十年来拥有的美好和谐将被打破，
and all the time he was talking I could not help wondering which was the idiot because I knew that no intelligent human beings could live together for twenty years and not have a differences of opinion. 在他说话的整个过程中，我不禁想知道谁是白痴，因为我知道没有任何聪明的人能一起生活二十年而没有意见分歧。
All the time he was talking I looked at that splendid type of manhood and thought, how would a man feel being tagged up by a little woman for twenty years saying, "Me too, me too." I would not want to live in a house with a human being for twenty years who agreed with everything I said. The stagnation of a frog pond would be hilarious compared to that. 在他说话的整个过程中，我看着那个杰出的男性形象，心想，一个男人被一个小女人跟着二十年说"我也是，我也是"，会有什么感觉。我不想和一个同意我所说的一切的人一起生活二十年。青蛙池的停滞与此相比都会显得很热闹。
What a reflection is that on men. If we should say that about men we would never hear the last of it. Now it may be that the kind of men being that the anti-suffragists live with is that kind, but they are not the kind we live with and we could not do it. 这对男性是多么大的反映啊。如果我们这样说男性，我们永远不会停止听到这件事。现在，也许反女权主义者生活中的那种男性是那样的，但我们生活中的男性不是那样的，我们无法忍受那样的人。
Great big overgrown babies! Cannot be disputed without having a row! While we do not believe that men are saints, by any means, we do believe that the average American man is a fairly good sort of fellow. 巨大的、过度成长的婴儿！不能被反驳而不吵架！虽然我们绝不认为男性是圣人，但我们确实相信普通美国男性是一个相当不错的人。
In fact my theory of the whole matter is exactly opposite, because instead of believing that men and women will quarrel, I think just the opposite thing will happen. I think just about six weeks before election a sort of honeymoon will start and it will continue until they will think they are again hanging over the gate, all in order to get each other's votes. 事实上，我对整个事情的理论恰恰相反，因为我不相信男女会争吵，我认为恰恰相反的事情会发生。我认为大约在选举前六周，一种蜜月期将会开始，并持续到他们认为他们又在门上闲逛，都是为了获得彼此的选票。
When men want each other's votes they do not go up and knock them down; they are very solicitous of each other, if they are thirsty or need a smoke or well we don't worry about home. The husband and wife who are quarreling after the vote are quarreling now. 当男性想要彼此的选票时，他们不会上去把他们打倒；他们对彼此非常关心，如果他们渴了或需要抽烟或——好吧，我们不担心家庭。投票后争吵的丈夫和妻子现在就在争吵。
Then the other belief that the women would not vote if they had a vote and would not do anything else; and would vote just as their husbands vote, and would not vote like their husbands; that women have so many burdens that they cannot bear another burden, and that women are the leisure class. 然后还有其他信念：如果妇女有选票，她们不会投票，也不会做任何其他事情；她们会和她们的丈夫投同样的票，也不会和她们的丈夫投同样的票；妇女负担太重，无法承受另一个负担；妇女是休闲阶级。
I remember having Reverend Dr. Abbott speak before the anti-suffrage meeting in Brooklyn and he stated that if women were permitted to vote we would not have so much time for charity and philanthropy, and I would like to say, "Thank God, there will not be so much need of charity and philanthropy." 我记得在布鲁克林的反女权会议上，阿博特牧师发言，他说如果允许妇女投票，我们就不会有那么多时间从事慈善和博爱工作。我想说："感谢上帝，将不会有那么多慈善和博爱的需要。"
The end and aim of the suffrage is not to furnish an opportunity for excellent old ladies to be charitable. There are two words that we ought to be able to get along without, and they are charity and philanthropy. They are not needed in a Republic. If we put in the word "opportunity" instead, that is what Republics stand for. 选举权的目的不是为优秀的老妇人提供慈善的机会。有两个词我们应该能够不用，那就是慈善和博爱。在共和国里不需要它们。如果我们用"机会"这个词代替，那就是共和国所代表的。
Our doctrine is not to extend the length of our bread lines or the size of our soup kitchens, what we need is for men to have the opportunity to buy their own bread and eat their own soup. 我们的教义不是延长面包线的长度或扩大施粥所的规模，我们需要的是让人们有机会购买自己的面包，吃自己的汤。
We women have used up our lives and strength in fool charities, and we have made more paupers than we have ever helped by the folly of our charities and philanthropies; the unorganized methods by which we deal with the conditions of society, and instead of giving people charity we must learn to give them an opportunity to develop and make themselves capable of earning the bread; 我们妇女已经在愚蠢的慈善事业中耗尽了我们的生命和力量，我们通过我们愚蠢的慈善和博爱行为制造了比我们帮助过的更多的乞丐；我们处理社会状况的无组织方法，以及我们必须学会给人们发展和使自己有能力赚取面包的机会，而不是给他们慈善；
no human being has the right to live without toil; toil of some kind, and that old theory that we used to hear "The world owes a man a living" never was true and never will be true. This world does not owe anybody a living, what it does owe to every human being is the opportunity to earn a living. 任何人都没有权利不劳而获；某种形式的劳动，以及我们曾经听到的那句老话"世界欠每个人一份生活"从来都不是真的，也永远不会是真的。这个世界不欠任何人一份生活，它欠每个人的是赚取生活的机会。
We have a right to the opportunity and then the right to the living thereafter. We want it. No woman, any more than a man, has the right to live an idle life in this world, we must learn to give back something for the space occupied and we must do our duty wherever duty calls, and the woman herself must decide where her duty calls, just as a man does. 我们有权获得机会，然后有权获得生活。我们想要它。没有女人，就像没有男人一样，有权在这个世界上过悠闲的生活，我们必须学会为所占用的空间付出一些东西，我们必须在职责召唤的任何地方履行我们的职责，女人自己必须决定她的职责在哪里，就像男人一样。
Now they tell us we should not vote because we have not the time, we are so burdened that we should not have any more burdens. Then, if that is so, I think we ought to allow the women to vote instead of the men, since we pay a man anywhere from a third to a half more than we do women it would be better to use up the cheap time of the women instead of the dear time of the men. And talking about time you would think it took about a week to vote. 现在他们告诉我们我们不应该投票，因为我们没有时间，我们负担太重，不应该再有更多负担。那么，如果是这样，我认为我们应该允许妇女而不是男性投票，因为我们付给男性的工资比付给妇女的高出三分之一到一半，所以最好利用妇女廉价的时间而不是男性昂贵的时间。说到时间，你会认为投票需要大约一周的时间。
A dear, good friend of mine in Omaha said, "Now Miss. Shaw," and she held up her child in her arms, "is not this my job." I said it certainly is, and then she said, "How can I go to the polls and vote and neglect my baby?" 我在奥马哈的一位亲爱的好朋友说："肖小姐，"她怀里抱着孩子，"这不是我的工作吗。"我说当然是，然后她说："我怎么能去投票站投票而忽视我的孩子呢？"
I said, "Has your husband a job?" and she said, "Why you know he has." I did know it; he was a banker and a very busy one. I said, "Yet your husband said he was going to leave his job and go down to the polls and vote," and she said, "Oh yes, he is so very interested in election." 我说："你丈夫有工作吗？"她说："你知道他有。"我确实知道；他是一位银行家，非常忙碌。我说："然而你丈夫说他要离开工作去投票站投票，"她说："哦，是的，他对选举非常感兴趣。"
Then I said, "What an advantage you have over your husband, he has to leave his job and you can take your job with you and you do not need to neglect your job." Is it not strange that the only time a woman might neglect her baby is on election day, and then the dear old Antis hold up their hands and say, "You have neglected your baby." 然后我说："你比你丈夫有多大的优势啊，他必须离开工作，而你可以带着你的工作，你不需要忽视你的工作。"难道不奇怪吗，一个女人唯一可能忽视她的孩子的时间是选举日，然后那些亲爱的老反女权主义者举起手来说："你忽视了你的孩子。"
A woman can belong to a whist club and go once a week and play whist, she cannot take her baby to the whist club, and she has to keep whist herself without trying to keep a baby whist. She can go to the theatre, to church or a picnic and no one is worrying about the baby, but to vote and everyone cries out about the neglect. 一个女人可以属于惠斯特俱乐部，每周去一次打惠斯特牌，她不能带她的孩子去惠斯特俱乐部，她必须自己打惠斯特牌而不试图让孩子也打惠斯特牌。她可以去剧院、教堂或野餐，没有人担心孩子，但去投票，每个人都大声叫嚷说忽视了孩子。
You would think on Election Day that a woman grabbed up her baby and started out and just dropped it somewhere and paid no attention to it. It used to be asked when we had the question box, "Who will take care of the babies?" I did not know what person could be got to take care of all the babies, so I thought I would go out West and find out. 你会认为在选举日，一个女人抓起她的孩子就走，然后随便把孩子扔在某个地方，不加理会。过去当我们有投票箱问题时，人们总是问："谁来照顾孩子？"我不知道能找到什么人来照顾所有的孩子，所以我想我应该去西部看看。
I went to Denver and I found that they took care of their babies just the same on election day as they did on every other day; they took their baby along with them, when they went to put a letter in a box they took their baby along and when they went to put their ballot in the box they took their baby along. 我去了丹佛，发现她们在选举日照顾孩子的方式和其他任何日子一样；她们带着孩子一起去，当她们去信箱寄信时，她们带着孩子一起去，当她们去投票箱投票时，她们带着孩子一起去。
If the mother had to stand in line and the baby got restless she would joggle the go-cart and when she went in to vote a neighbor would joggle the go-cart and if there was no neighbor there was the candidate and he would joggle the cart. That is one day in the year when you can get a hundred people to take care of any number of babies. I have never worried about the babies on Election Day since that time. 如果母亲必须排队，孩子变得不安分，她会摇晃婴儿车，当她进去投票时，邻居会摇晃婴儿车，如果没有邻居，候选人会摇晃婴儿车。那是一年中的一天，你可以找到一百个人来照顾任何数量的孩子。从那以后，我再也不用担心选举日的孩子了。
Then the people will tell you that women are so burdened with their duties that they can not vote, and they will tell you that women are the leisure class and the men are worked to death: but the funniest argument of the lady who followed me about in the West: Out there they were great in the temperance question, and she declared that we were not prohibition, or she declared that we were. 然后人们会告诉你，妇女负担太重，无法投票，她们会告诉你妇女是休闲阶级，男性被累死了：但那个在西部跟着我的女士最有趣的论点是：在那里，禁酒问题很重要，她宣称我们不是禁酒主义者，或者她宣称我们是。
Now in North Dakota which is one of the first prohibition states, and they are dry because they want to be dry. In that state she wanted to prove to them that if women were allowed to vote they would vote North Dakota wet and she had her figures; that women had not voted San Francisco dry, or Portland dry, or Chicago dry. Of course we had not voted on the question in Chicago, but that did not matter. 现在在北达科他州，这是最早的禁酒州之一，他们禁酒是因为他们想禁酒。在那个州，她想向他们证明，如果允许妇女投票，她们会投票让北达科他州禁酒，她有她的数据；妇女没有投票让旧金山禁酒，也没有让波特兰禁酒，也没有让芝加哥禁酒。当然，我们在芝加哥没有就这个问题投票，但那没关系。
Then we went to Montana, which is wet. They have it wet there because they want it wet, so that any argument that she could bring to bear upon them to prove that we would make North Dakota wet and keep it wet would have given us the state, but that would not work, 然后我们去了蒙大拿州，那里不禁酒。他们不禁酒是因为他们想不禁酒，所以她能向他们提出的任何证明我们会让北达科他州禁酒并保持禁酒的论点都会让我们赢得这个州，但那行不通，
so she brought out the figures out of her pocket to prove to the men of Montana that if women were allowed to vote in Montana they would vote Montana dry. She proved that in two years in Illinois they had voted ninety-six towns dry, and that at that rate we would soon get over Montana and have it dry. 所以她从口袋里拿出数据来向蒙大拿州的男性证明，如果允许妇女在蒙大拿州投票，她们会投票让蒙大拿州禁酒。她证明在伊利诺伊州两年内，她们投票让九十六个城镇禁酒，按照那个速度，我们很快就会让蒙大拿州禁酒。
Then I went to Nebraska and as soon as I reached there a reporter came and asked me the question, "How are the women going to vote on the prohibition question?" I said, "I really don't know. I know how we will vote in North Dakota, we will vote wet in North Dakota; in Montana we will vote dry, but how we will vote in Nebraska, I don't know, but I will let you know just as soon as the lady from New Jersey comes." 然后我去了内布拉斯加州，我一到那里，一位记者就来问我："妇女们将如何在禁酒问题上投票？"我说："我真的不知道。我知道我们将如何在北达科他州投票，我们将在北达科他州投禁酒票；在蒙大拿州我们将投禁酒票，但在内布拉斯加州我们将如何投票，我不知道，但我会在新泽西的那位女士到来时立即告诉你。"
We will either vote as our husbands vote or we will not vote as our husbands vote. We either have time to vote or we don't have time to vote. We will either not vote at all or we will vote all the time. 我们要么和我们的丈夫投同样的票，要么不和我们的丈夫投同样的票。我们要么有时间投票，要么没有时间投票。我们要么根本不投票，要么一直投票。
It reminds me of the story of the old Irish woman who had twin boys and they were so much alike that the neighbors could not tell them apart, so one of the neighbors said, "Now Mrs. Mahoney, you have two of the finest twin boys I ever saw in all my life, but how do you know them apart." 这让我想起了一个爱尔兰老妇人的故事，她有一对双胞胎男孩，他们长得太像了，邻居们无法区分他们，所以一个邻居说："马奥尼太太，你有两个我一生中见过的最棒的双胞胎男孩，但你怎么区分他们呢。"
"Oh," she says, "That's easy enough any one could tell them apart. When I want to know which is which I just put my finger in Patsey's mouth and if he bites it is Mikey." "哦，"她说，"这很容易，任何人都能区分他们。当我想知道哪个是哪个时，我只需把手指放进帕西的嘴里，如果他咬，那就是米奇。"
Now what does it matter whether the women will vote as their husbands do or will not vote; whether they have time or have not; or whether they will vote for prohibition or not. What has that to do with the fundamental question of democracy, no one has yet discovered. 现在，妇女是否会和她们的丈夫投同样的票，或者是否会投票；她们是否有时间，或者没有时间；或者她们是否会投票支持禁酒，这有什么关系？这与民主的根本问题有什么关系，还没有人发现。
But they cannot argue on that; they cannot argue on the fundamental basis of our existence so that they have to get off on all of these side tricks to get anything approaching an argument. So they tell you that democracy is a form of government. It is not. 但她们不能就此争论；她们不能就我们存在的根本基础争论，所以她们不得不借助所有这些旁门左道来提出任何接近论点的东西。所以她们告诉你民主是一种政府形式。它不是。
It was before governments were; it will prevail when governments cease to be; it is more than a form of government; it is a great spiritual force emanating from the heart of the Infinite, transforming human character until some day, some day in the distant future, man by the power of the spirit of democracy, will be able to look back into the face of the Infinite and answer, as man can not answer today, "One is our Father, even God, and all we people are the children of one family." 它在政府存在之前就存在了；当政府不再存在时，它将继续存在；它不仅仅是一种政府形式；它是一种伟大的精神力量，源自无限的心灵，改变人类的性格，直到有一天，在遥远的未来，人类通过民主精神的力量，将能够回头望向无限的面容，并像今天人类无法回答的那样回答："我们有一位父，就是上帝，我们所有人都是一个家庭的孩子。"
And when democracy has taken possession of human lives no man will ask from him to grant to his neighbor, whether that neighbor be a man or woman; no man will then be willing to allow another man to rise to power on his shoulders, nor will he be willing to rise to power on the shoulders of another prostrate human being. 当民主占据人类的生活时，没有人会要求从他那里授予他的邻居，无论那个邻居是男人还是女人；那时没有人会愿意允许另一个人在他的肩膀上升到权力，也不会愿意在另一个俯伏的人的肩膀上升到权力。
But that has not yet taken possession of us, but some day we will be free, and we are getting nearer and nearer to it all the time; and never in the history of our country had the men and women of this nation a better right to approach it than they have today; never in the history of the nation did it stand out so splendidly as it stands today, and never ought we men and women to be more grateful for anything than that there presides in the White House today a man of peace. 但那还没有占据我们，但有一天我们会自由，我们一直在越来越接近它；在我们国家的历史上，这个国家的男女从来没有比今天更好的权利去接近它；在国家的历史上，它从来没有像今天这样辉煌地突出过，我们男女从来没有比今天更应该感激任何事情，那就是今天在白宫主持的是一位和平的人。
As so our good friends go on with one thing after another and they say if women should vote they will have to sit on the jury and they ask whether we will like to see a woman sitting on a jury. I have seen some juries that ought to be sat on and I have seen some women that would be glad to sit on anything. 所以我们的好朋友们继续一件接一件地说，如果妇女投票，她们将不得不担任陪审员，她们问我们是否愿意看到一个女人坐在陪审团里。我见过一些应该被人坐的陪审团，我见过一些女人会很高兴坐在任何东西上。
When a woman stands up all day behind a counter, or when she stands all day doing a washing she is glad enough to sit; and when she stands for seventy-five cents she would like to sit for two dollars a day. But don't you think we need some women on juries in this country? 当一个女人整天站在柜台后面，或者整天洗衣服时，她会很高兴坐下来；当她站着挣七十五美分时，她愿意坐着挣两美元一天。但你不认为我们国家需要一些女性陪审员吗？
You read your paper and you read that one day last week or the week before or the week before a little girl went out to school and never came back; another little girl was sent on an errand and never came back; another little girl was left in charge of a little sister and her mother went out to work and when she returned the little girl was not there, and you read it over and over again, and the horror of it strikes you. 你读你的报纸，你读到上周或前一周或再前一周的一天，一个小女孩出去上学再也没有回来；另一个小女孩被派去跑腿再也没有回来；另一个小女孩被留下来照顾小妹妹，她的母亲出去工作，当她回来时，小女孩不在那里，你一遍又一遍地读它，恐怖感击中了你。
You read that in these United States five thousand young girls go out and never come back, don't you think that the men and women the vampires of our country who fatten and grow rich on the ignorance and innocence of children would rather face Satan himself than a jury of mothers. I would like to see some juries of mothers. I lived in the slums of Boston for three years and I know the need of juries of mothers. 你读到在这些美国，五千个年轻女孩出去后再也没有回来，你不认为那些在我们国家靠儿童的无知和天真致富的吸血鬼，宁愿面对撒旦本人也不愿面对一个母亲陪审团吗？我希望看到一些母亲陪审团。我在波士顿的贫民窟住了三年，我知道母亲陪审团的必要性。
Then they tell us that if women were permitted to vote that they would take office, and you would suppose that we just took office in this country. There is a difference of getting an office in this country and in Europe. 然后他们告诉我们，如果允许妇女投票，她们将担任公职，你会认为我们刚刚在这个国家担任公职。在美国和欧洲担任公职是有区别的。
In England, a man stands for Parliament and in this country he runs for Congress, and so long as it is a question of running for office I don't think women have much chance, especially with our present hobbles. There are some women who want to hold office and I may as well own up. 在英国，一个人竞选议会，而在这个国家，他竞选国会，所以只要是竞选公职的问题，我认为妇女没有多大机会，尤其是在我们目前的障碍下。有一些妇女想担任公职，我不妨承认。
I am one of them. I have been wanting to hold office for more than thirty-five years. Thirty-five years ago I lived in the slums of Boston and ever since then I have wanted to hold office. 我就是其中之一。我三十多年来一直想担任公职。三十五年前，我住在波士顿的贫民窟，从那以后我一直想担任公职。
I have applied to the mayor to be made an officer; I wanted to be the greatest office holder in the world, I wanted the position of the man I think is to be the most envied, as far as the ability to do good is concerned, and that is a policeman. I have always wanted to be a policeman and I have applied to be appointed policeman and the very first question that was asked me was, "Could you knock a man down and take him to jail?" 我曾向市长申请成为一名官员；我想成为世界上最伟大的官员，我想要我认为最令人羡慕的职位，就做好事的能力而言，那就是警察。我一直想成为一名警察，我曾申请被任命为警察，问我的第一个问题是："你能把一个人打倒并送他进监狱吗？"
That is some people's idea of the highest service that a policeman can render a community. Knock somebody down and take him to jail! My idea is not so much to arrest criminals as it is to prevent crime. That is what is needed in the police force of every community. 这是一些人对警察能够为社区提供的最高服务的看法。把某人打倒并送他进监狱！我的想法不是逮捕罪犯，而是预防犯罪。这是每个社区的警察部队所需要的。
When I lived for three years in the back alleys of Boston. I saw there that it was needed to prevent crime and from that day I believe there is no great public gathering of any sort whatever where we do not need women on the police force; 当我在波士顿的后巷住了三年时，我看到那里需要预防犯罪，从那天起我相信，在任何类型的大型公共集会中，我们都需要女性在警察部队中；
we need them at every moving picture show, every dance house, every restaurant, every hotel, and every great store with a great bargain counter and every park and every resort where the vampires who fatten on the crimes and vices of men and women gather. We need women on the police force and we will have them there some day. 我们需要她们在每个电影院、每个舞厅、每个餐厅、每个酒店、每个有大型廉价柜台的大商店、每个公园和每个度假胜地，在那些靠男女罪行和恶习致富的吸血鬼聚集的地方。我们需要女性在警察部队中，总有一天我们会让她们在那里。
If women vote, will they go to war? They are great on having us fight. They tell you that the government rests on force, but there are a great many kinds of force in this world, and never in the history of man were the words of the Scriptures proved to the extent that they are today, that the men of the nation that lives by the sword shall die by the sword. 如果妇女投票，她们会去打仗吗？他们非常希望我们去打仗。他们告诉你政府依赖武力，但这个世界上有很多种武力，在人类历史上，圣经中的话语从未像今天这样被证明："凡动刀的，必死在刀下。"
When I was speaking in North Dakota from an automobile with a great crowd and a great number of men gathered around a man who had been sitting in front of a store whittling a stick called out to another man and asked if women get the vote will they go over to Germany and fight the Germans? I said, "Why no, why should we go over to Germany and fight Germans?" 当我在北达科他州从一辆汽车上演讲时，一大群人聚集在一起，一个坐在商店前面削木棍的人对另一个人喊道，如果妇女获得投票权，她们会去德国打德国人吗？我说："为什么不，我们为什么要去德国打德国人？"
"If Germans come over here would you fight?" I said, "Why should we women fight men, but if Germany should send an army of women over here, then we would show you what we would do. We would go down and meet them and say, 'Come on, let's go up to the opera house and talk this matter over.'" It might grow wearisome but it would not be death. "如果德国人来这里，你会打吗？"我说："我们女人为什么要打男人，但如果德国派一支妇女军队来这里，那么我们会让你看看我们会做什么。我们会下去迎接她们，说：'来吧，让我们去歌剧院讨论这件事。'"这可能会变得令人厌倦，但不会是死亡。
Would it not be better if the heads of the governments in Europe had talked things over? What might have happened to the world if a dozen men had gotten together in Europe and settled the awful controversy, which is today discriminating the nations of Europe? 如果欧洲各国政府的首脑们能够讨论事情，那不是更好吗？如果十几个男人能够在欧洲聚在一起解决今天困扰欧洲各国的可怕争议，世界可能会发生什么？
We women got together there last year, over in Rome, the delegates from twenty-eight different nations of women, and for two weeks we discussed problems which had like interests to us all. They were all kinds of Protestants, both kinds of Catholics, Roman, and Greek, three were Jews and Mohamedans, but we were not there to discuss our different religious beliefs, but we were there to discuss the things that were of vital importance to us all, and at the end of the two weeks, after the discussions were over we passed a great number of resolutions. 去年我们妇女在罗马聚集在一起，来自二十八个不同国家的妇女代表，我们用两周时间讨论了对我们所有人都有共同利益的问题。她们是各种新教徒，两种天主教徒，罗马天主教徒和希腊天主教徒，还有犹太人和穆斯林，但我们不是来讨论我们不同的宗教信仰的，我们是来讨论对我们所有人至关重要的事情的。两周讨论结束后，我们通过了许多决议。
We discussed white slavery, the immigration laws, we discussed the spread of contagious and infectious diseases; we discussed various forms of education, and various forms of juvenile criminals, every question which every nation has to meet, and at the end of two weeks we passed many resolutions, but two of them were passed unanimously. 我们讨论了白奴问题、移民法律，我们讨论了传染性和感染性疾病的传播；我们讨论了各种形式的教育，以及各种形式的青少年犯罪，每个国家都必须面对的每一个问题。在两周结束时，我们通过了许多决议，但其中两项是一致通过的。
One was presented by myself as Chairman on the Committee on Suffrage and on that resolution we called upon all civilizations of the world to give to women equal rights with men and there was not a dissenting vote. 一项是我作为选举权委员会主席提出的，在这项决议中，我们呼吁世界所有文明给予妇女与男性平等的权利，没有一张反对票。
The other resolution was on peace. We believed then and many of us believe today, notwithstanding all the discussion that is going on, we believe and we will continue to believe that preparedness for war is an incentive to war, and the only hope of permanent peace is the systematic and scientific disarmament of all the nations of the world, and we passed a resolution and passed it unanimously to that effect. 另一项决议是关于和平的。我们当时相信，我们中的许多人今天仍然相信，尽管正在进行所有的讨论，我们相信并将继续相信，备战是战争的诱因，永久和平的唯一希望是所有国家的系统性和科学裁军，我们一致通过了一项决议，表达了这一观点。
A few days afterward I attended a large reception given by the American ambassador, and there was an Italian diplomat there and he spoke rather superciliously and said, "You women think you have been having a very remarkable convention, and I understand that a resolution on peace was offered by the Germans, the French women seconded it, and the British presiding presented it and it was carried unanimously." 几天后，我参加了美国大使举办的一个大型招待会，那里有一位意大利外交官，他相当傲慢地说："你们妇女认为你们一直在开一个非常了不起的大会，我理解一项关于和平的决议是德国人提出的，法国妇女附议，英国主席提出并一致通过。"
We none of us dreamed what was taking place at that time, but he knew and we learned it before we arrived home, that awful, awful thing that was about to sweep over the nations of the world. 我们没有人梦想当时正在发生什么，但他知道，我们在回家前就知道了，那可怕、可怕的事情即将席卷世界各国。
The American ambassador replied to the Italian diplomat and said, "Yes Prince, it was a remarkable convention, and it is a remarkable thing that the only people who can get together internationally and discuss their various problems without acrimony and without a sword at their side are the women of the world, but we men, even when we go to the Hague to discuss peace, we go with a sword dangling at our side." It is remarkable that even at this age men can not discuss international problems and discuss them in peace. 美国大使回答意大利外交官说："是的，亲王，这是一个了不起的大会，了不起的是，唯一能够在国际上聚在一起讨论各种问题而不尖酸刻薄、身边没有剑的人是世界上的妇女，但我们男人，即使去海牙讨论和平，我们也带着一把剑在身边晃荡。"值得注意的是，即使在这个时代，男人也无法讨论国际问题并和平地讨论它们。
When I turned away from that place up in North Dakota that man in the crowd called out again, just as we were leaving, and said, "Well what does a woman know about war anyway?" I had read my paper that morning and I knew what the awful headline was, and I saw a gentleman standing in the crowd with a paper in his pocket, and I said, "Will that gentleman hold the paper up." 当我从北达科他州的那个地方转身离开时，人群中的那个人又喊道，就在我们要离开的时候："那么女人到底对战争知道什么？"那天早上我读了报纸，我知道那个可怕的标题是什么，我看到人群中有一位绅士口袋里装着一张报纸，我说："那位绅士能把报纸举起来吗？"
And he held it up, and the headline read, "250,000 Men Killed Since the War Began". I said, "You ask me what a woman knows about war? No woman can read that line and comprehend the awful horror; no woman knows the significance of 250,000 dead men, but you tell me that one man lay dead and I might be able to tell you something of its awful meaning to one woman. 他举了起来，标题写着："战争开始以来已有25万人死亡"。我说："你问我女人对战争知道什么？没有女人能读到那一行并理解那可怕的恐怖；没有女人知道25万死人的意义，但你告诉我一个人躺死了，我也许能够告诉你它对一个女人的可怕意义。
I would know that years before a woman whose heart beat in unison with her love and her desire for motherhood walked day by day with her face to an open grave, with courage, which no man has ever surpassed, and if she did not fill that grave, if she lived, and if there was laid in her arms a tiny little bit of helpless humanity, I would know that there went out from her soul such a cry of thankfulness as none save a mother could know. 我会知道，多年前，一个心与她的爱和对母性的渴望同步跳动的女人，日复一日地面对一个敞开的坟墓，带着没有人能超越的勇气。如果她没有填满那个坟墓，如果她活了下来，如果她怀里抱着一小团无助的人性，我会知道她的灵魂中发出了一声只有母亲才能知道的感恩的呼喊。
And then I would know, what men have not yet learned that women are human; that they have human hopes and human passions, aspirations and desires as men have, and I would know that that mother had laid aside all those hopes and aspirations for herself, laid them aside for her boy, 然后我会知道，男人还没有学到的是，女人是人；她们有人类的希望和人类的激情，有和男人一样的抱负和欲望，我会知道那个母亲已经把所有那些希望和抱负都放在一边，为她的儿子放在一边，
and if after years had passed by she forgot her nights of sleeplessness and her days of fatiguing toil in her care of her growing boy, and when at last he became a man and she stood looking up into his eyes and beheld him, bone of her bone and flesh of her flesh, for out of her woman's life she had carved twenty beautiful years that went into the making of a man; 如果多年后，她忘记了在照顾她成长中的儿子时的不眠之夜和疲惫的日子，当他终于成为一个男人，她站着抬头看着他的眼睛，看到他，她的骨肉，因为从她的女人生命中，她雕刻了二十年美好的时光，这些时光造就了一个男人；
and there he stands, the most wonderful thing in all the world; for in all the Universe of God there is nothing more sublimely wonderful than a strong limbed, clean hearted, keen brained, aggressive young man, standing as he does on the border line of life, ready to reach out and grapple with its problems. 他站在那里，是世界上最美好的事物；因为在上帝的整个宇宙中，没有什么比一个四肢强壮、心灵纯洁、头脑敏锐、积极进取的年轻人更崇高、更美好的了，他站在生命的边缘，准备伸出手来抓住它的问题。
Oh, how wonderful he is, and he is hers. She gave her life for him, and in an hour this country calls him out and in an hour he lies dead; that wonderful, wonderful thing lies dead; and sitting by his side, that mother looking into the dark years to come knows that when her son died her life's hope died with him, 哦，他是多么美好，他是她的。她为他献出了生命，而在一小时内，这个国家召唤他出去，在一小时内，他躺死了；那个美好、美好的事物躺死了；坐在他身边的那个母亲，望着黑暗的未来岁月，知道当她的儿子死去时，她生命的希望也随他而去，
and in the face of that wretched motherhood, what man dare ask what a woman knows of war. And that is not all. Read your papers, you can not read it because it is not printable; you cannot tell it because it is not speakable, you cannot even think it because it is not thinkable, the horrible crimes perpetrated against women by the blood drunken men of the war. 面对那个悲惨的母性，哪个男人敢问女人对战争知道什么。这还不是全部。读你的报纸，你读不到它，因为它不能印刷；你不能说它，因为它不能说；你甚至不能想它，因为它不能想，那些被战争中嗜血的男人对妇女犯下的可怕罪行。
You read your paper again and the second headlines read, "It Costs Twenty Millions of Dollars a Day," for what? To buy the material to slaughter the splendid results of civilization of the centuries. 你再读你的报纸，第二条标题写着："每天花费两千万美元，"为了什么？为了购买屠杀几个世纪文明的辉煌成果的材料。
Men whom it has taken centuries to build up and make into great scientific forces of brain, the flower of the manhood of the great nations of Europe, and we spend twenty millions of dollars a day to blot out all the results of civilization of hundreds and hundreds of years. And what do we do? We lay a mortgage on every unborn child for a hundred and more years to come. 那些花了几个世纪才培养出来并成为伟大科学力量的人，欧洲伟大国家男子气概的精华，我们每天花费两千万美元来抹去数百年来文明的所有成果。我们做了什么？我们为未来一百多年的每个未出生的孩子抵押。
Mortgage his brain, his brawn, and every pulse of his heart in order to pay the debt, to buy the material to slaughter the men of our country. 抵押他的大脑，他的肌肉，他心脏的每一次跳动，以偿还债务，购买屠杀我们国家人民的材料。
And that is not all, the greatest crime of war is the crime against the unborn. Read what they are doing. They are calling out every man, every young man, and every virile man from seventeen to forty-five or fifty years old; they are calling them out. 这还不是全部，战争最大的罪行是对未出生者的罪行。看看他们在做什么。他们征召每个男人，每个年轻人，每个十七岁到四十五或五十岁的精力充沛的男人；他们征召他们。
All the splendid scientific force and energy of the splendid virile manhood are being called out to be food for the cannon, and they are leaving behind the degenerate, defective imbecile, the unfit, the criminals, the diseased to be the fathers of children yet to be born. The crime of crimes of the war is the crime against the unborn children, and in the face of the fact that women are driven out of the home shall men ask if women shall fight if they are permitted to vote. 所有精力充沛的男子气概的辉煌科学力量和能量都被征召去成为大炮的食物，他们留下了退化的、有缺陷的、低能的、不适合的、罪犯、病人，让他们成为尚未出生的孩子的父亲。战争的最大罪行是对未出生孩子的罪行，面对妇女被赶出家门的事实，男人还敢问如果允许妇女投票，妇女是否会打仗。
No, we women do not want the ballot in order that we may fight, but we do want the ballot in order that we may help men to keep from fighting, whether it is in the home or in the state, just as the home is not without the man, so the state is not without the woman, and you can no more build up homes without men than you can build up the state without women. 不，我们妇女不想要选票是为了打仗，但我们确实想要选票是为了帮助男人避免打仗，无论是在家里还是在国家里，正如家庭离不开男人一样，国家也离不开女人。你不能没有男人建立家庭，就像你不能没有女人建立国家一样。
We are needed everywhere where human problems are to be solved. Men and women must go through this world together from the cradle to the grave; it is God's way and the fundamental principle of a Republican form of government. 在需要解决人类问题的任何地方，我们都是需要的。男人和女人必须从摇篮到坟墓一起走过这个世界；这是上帝的方式，也是共和制政府形式的基本原则。