First: Lands in severalty, with fee-simple titles, inalienable for thirty years.
Second: The same law-protection, legal personalty and citizenship that white men and black men enjoy.
Third: Adequate common-school and industrial education upon their present reservations, and,
Fourth: Full religious liberty.
[215]. See chapter Woman in the State.—Ed.
[216]. See chapter Woman in Literature.—Ed.
[217]. See chapter Woman in Literature.—Ed.
[218]. Ohio.—Ed.
[219]. I have steadily refrained from adding biographical notes on the authors of the chapters of this book, notwithstanding the fact that they themselves, in having accomplished so very much on the very lines of progress which they have set about to describe, have deprived us of much that could have been gracefully added, had they been less fully identified with their subjects. Between the lines, however, much may be gleaned; and to relate the lives of such women is to presume ignorance on the part of the reader; a presumption of which a discreet editor would never be guilty.
But when, through excess of modesty, the ignorance of the editor of this book is delicately held up as a proof of the lamentably universal ignorance on the subject of the Red Cross, the awful dignity of the editor is aroused! Without the following explanation or extenuation, moreover, I do not see how the chapter in question could have any place in the book. “Woman’s Work in America” can hardly be made up of histories of work which is emphasized as “the work of men,” no matter how gracefully apologized for.