While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.