Memory: (Things too recent and poignant for utterance.)
Vague Idea Gathered at School: Am I going to stand for being taxed without representation?
Sense of Justice: No.
Self-confidence: But if I can't influence some woman's vote I may as well drown myself.
Reason: Some men have no influence over anybody. They won't stand for taxation without representation.
The Poor Boy (as a whole) gives up with reluctance the idea of a government of the ladies, by the ladies, and for the ladies.
Wish to Do the Next Best Thing: Let it be a government by commission—a commission of three. A man and a woman—and—
Touch of Genius: The children must be represented. They shall elect a child.
Sense of the Ridiculous: Upon a platform of "Baseball in the streets—longer vacations, and more of them."
Reason: The child must not be related to the other members of the commission. We are against affairs of state being influenced by a slipper.