will allow them to vote according to their convictions.-Ida Husted Harper, in the New York Sun. If women are fit to rule in monarchies it is difficult to say they are not qualified to vote in republics.—Hon. H. B. Anthony, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island. The Minneapolis Times was among the large number that declared: "We take occasion again to say that we favor woman suffrage whenever women want it—not before." But how many women must first want it? Must the minority be forever denied representation because the majority do not desire it? Is that logical? Is it fair? Is it in accordance with the spirit of a Republic? Another expression which occurred over and over again was: "Women do not vote where they have the ballot." The papers repeat this like a parrot. It is absolutely false, and the figures to prove this assertion have been given again and again. There can be only one true test, and that is to compare the vote of women with that of men, where both have exactly the same electoral rights. The only four States where this can be done show uniformly a larger proportional vote of women than of men; and the statistics of Australia and New Zealand give the same result.-Ida Husted Harper. There are fewer social problems to be solved in the equal suffrage States than in any other part of America, and the States which deny woman the ballot can all take lessons in political purity from those four Rocky Mountain States where representative government is given a truer interpretation than elsewhere on this continent.-Avery C. Moore. In Wyoming, where the longest trial has been given full suffrage for women in America, the Census and Statistical Bureaus show that there are, in proportion to the population, fewer divorces, fewer insane, fewer drunkards, a larger birthrate, fewer outcast women, and less illiteracy than in any other State in the Republic. Women have used the ballot with an intelligence and self-helpfulness far in excess of their use by men anywhere in America.—Judge Davis. WORKING WOMEN We have in America to-day an army of 6,000,000 white women who are forced to slave for a bare living. These women are deserving of the protection of our Constitution, but they do not vote and cannot get it; and our men of America do not secure it to them. When people speak of the advanced position of American women, they speak of the few, of the golf-playing minority; but I speak of the 6,000,000 who toil even harder than men, of those who are dependent upon themselves, of those who are driven to prostitution or suicide.-Francis A. Adams. Director of Charities Harrison R. Cooley has been looking into the condition of working women. In the report which he has prepared from personal investigation and observation he avers that he is grievously surprised at the result. The Director says: "To those who are permitted to see it, the tragedy of our modern industrial and social system is appalling. The cruel and unjust conditions really cause a ruin and degradation of life a hundredfold more than the things reformers are most prone to attack." New York Times. It is proposed by the American Federation of Labor that Congress shall forbid the employment of women in any government place. The avowed purpose of this is to "inaugurate a precedent for the removal of women from the everyday walks of life, the relegation of her to the home." But what if a woman has no home? What if she has no husband, or one who fails or is too lazy to provide for her? Is she to starve or worse? What conceivable reason is there then why she should not use her abilities in providing for herself? The right of every human being to make the most and the best of his or her capabilities is as indisputable as the right to breathe.-New York World. The women and children in the mill villages support almost entirely the vast majority of the men in such localities in the North and South Carolinas and in Georgia. In their native haunts in the hills and mountains the women do practically all the work.-From an article copied by the Literary Digest. MAN AND WOMAN Since human beings first appeared upon this earth of ours, the endless strife of man and woman has been carried on—the man against the woman, the stronger against the weaker, the pursuer against the pursued. Through the thousands of centuries, woman has been and still is the prey of man.-R. Pyke. All men respond to a freemasonry of sex, and against woman they stand solidly together; individually they may be fond of some particular woman or even of some women, but their loyalty towards their own sex as a sex, ever and always above the female sex, is a fact not to be denied. For a woman to expect man to liberate her is as senseless and idiotic as it would be for mice to expect cats to voluntarily cease to prey upon them. Man is woman's natural enemy, her implacable foe, and she will ever be his prey. Woman as a sex can no more trust man as a |