since 1736 1or every office for which men vote on the same terms, except in the second chamber of the Riksdage."

Mrs. Drewson, of Norway, said: "All women in Norway who pay taxes on an income of $100 a year have municipal suffrage upon exact terms as the men of that land.”

Mrs. Fenwick-Miller, of England, said: "Women have the municipal suffrage in England upon the same qualifications as men."

Mrs. Goldstein, of Australia, said: "Women have full suffrage in New Zealand, West and South Australia, and the Isle of Man, in the British Empire, and municipal suffrage in Canada, England, Ireland and Scotland."

These ladies then pleaded with the Congressional Committee (which had been appointed not to listen to any of their speeches) to grant the rights to American women upon the like terms and conditions upon which Congress had granted such rights to the negro men of the land.

"English women have a much greater opportunity than their American sisters to engage in

public and political affairs. The English woman occupies nearly all her working hours with meetings and functions of various kinds, many of them of a semi-public nature. In politics the influence of English women is direct, whereas it is so limited among American women as to be inappreciable."-Mrs. Cornwallis-West.

NEED FOR REFORM

I call the attention of the Legislature to the desirability of gradually extending the sphere in which the suffrage can be exercised by women. -Message of President Roosevelt, when Governor of New York.

Man, who tramples on the rights of others, is the greatest stickler for his own. Liberty being feminine, modest man naturally imagines that, like everything else feminine, Liberty belongs entirely and only to him.-L. de V. Matthewman.

Women in republics have no genuine public influence. Men flatter them into believing they have in order to keep them good, just as they

tell children about Kris Kringle to keep them good.-A. Ranking.

Woman has ever been the slave of slaves. I demand that she shall be free and placed upon an equality with man. Why should not men be decent enough in the management of politics of the country for women to mix with them? Let us give woman the opportunity to care for herself since men are not decent enough to seek to care for her.-R. G. Ingersoll.

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Woman stands in the position of the negro slave prior to his emancipation,—she has no voice in her own government, nor in fixing the standard by which she is governed and controlled. She is a dependent morally, mentally, financially and physically. It is the height of ignorance that women control society and make the moral standards that govern it. They do nothing of the kind. Financial dependents and political nonentities create no standards. They receive them ready made. The merest modicum of reason will supply the proof of this. No subject class ever yet made public opinion either for itself or for others. It always must reflect

the sentiments and opinions of its rulers. Who enacts the double standard of morals upon which all social sentiments rest? No sane or reasonable person claims it is woman-made. Woman is the mirror which reflects man-made pictures, but she cannot be accused of being the creator of the original of the reflection. A sovereign race cannot be born of subject mothers. With an equal social, moral, financial and political status for men and women, surely the relations of the sexes will be sweet, noble, holy and pure; and there will be no ideal marriages until legally, morally and financially there sit at the hearthstone two equals.-H. H. Gardner. THE THREE "ISMS"

Anarchy is a symptom of disease, which disease is democracy.-G. Langtoft.

There is nothing beyond Republicanism but Anarchism.-Rev. Josiah Strong.

The tendency of Socialism is more and more to ally itself with democracy; in fact it claims to be the economic complement of democracy.— Encyclopedia Britannica.

The natural outcome of republican govern

ment is discontent, unrest, instability, finally revolution.-Ex-Secretary of the Navy Her

bert.

A democratic system of government is at the mercy of ignorance, caprice, passion, and above all, envy, which, Longfellow says, is the chief vice of republics.-G. Langtoft.

Socialism as a system has this radical difficulty-It promises great results without an adequate cause. Why should people give all they possess into the hands of the community? If all men were angels or came again under some strictly absolute government, such as that of the Incas, or again under the influence of some wild revolution, such doctrines might overcome whole communities, as a cyclone does; but, unless human nature be changed, they would, like the cyclone, lose their power soon, and old habits would return.-Archbishop Corrigan.

CONDITIONS IN AMERICA

In America the "sovereign people" is fast becoming a puppet which moves and speaks as wire-pullers determine; and while the forms of freedom are retained, the substance is practical