Miss Paul: They have never voted on the question of a National Amendment.
Mr. Gard: The States can only ratify it. You would prefer that course to having it taken directly to the people?
Miss Paul: Simply because we have the power of women’s votes to back up this method.
Mr. Gard: You are using this method because you think you have power to enforce it?
Miss Paul: Because we know we have power.
Mr. Taggart: The women who have the vote in the West are not worrying about what women are doing in the East. You will have to get more States before you try this nationally.
Miss Paul: We think that this repeated advice to go back to the States proves beyond all cavil that we are on the right track.
Mr. Taggart: Suppose you get fewer votes this time? Do you think it is fair to those members of Congress who voted for Woman Suffrage and have stood for Woman Suffrage, to oppose them merely because a majority of their Party were not in favor of Woman Suffrage?
Miss Paul: Every man that we opposed stood by his Party caucus in its opposition to Suffrage.
Mr. Volstead: This inquiry is absolutely unfair and improper. It is cheap politics, and I have gotten awfully tired listening to it.