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the inmates of insane and criminal institutions, and women.

In Indiana all citizens have votes or self-government except persons guilty of infamous crimes, lunatics, imbeciles and women.

In Iowa all citizens have votes or self-government except the insane, women, and persons convicted of heinous offences.

In Kansas all citizens have complete suffrage or self-government except public embezzlers, persons guilty of treason and felony, the insane, and women.

In Kentucky all citizens possess self-government or votes who are not imprisoned for crime or lunacy, except women.

In Maine all citizens have self-government except public paupers, idiots, the insane, and

women.

In Maryland all citizens have self-government except perpetrators of heinous crimes, the insane and women.

In Massachusetts all citizens who can read English can vote, except paupers, persons under guardianship, criminals and women.

In Louisiana all citizens have votes except felons under indictment, the insane and women.

In Michigan all citizens have self-government except women, duellists, incarcerated criminals, and lunatics.

In Minnesota all citizens have self-government except those convicted of treason, arson, those who are non compos mentis and women.

In Mississippi all citizens have self-government except women, bigamists, (who have been convicted), perjurers, and the inmates of prisons and institutions for the feeble minded.

In Missouri all citizens have votes or selfgovernment except criminals the insane, the feeble-minded and women.

In Montana all citizens have votes or selfgovernment except perpetrators of unpardonable offences, women and the insane.

In Nebraska all citizens have self-government or votes except those convicted of treason, arson, felony, the insane and women.

In Nevada all citizens have self-government or votes except unpardoned convicts, women and the feeble-minded.

In New Hampshire all citizens have votes or self-government except public paupers, inmates of penitentiaries and lunatic asylums, and

women.

In New Jersey all citizens have votes or selfgovernment except convicts, lunatics and women.

In New York all citizens have votes or selfgovernment who are not imprisoned for crime or lunacy, except women.

In North Carolina all citizens have votes or self-government except convicts, lunatics and

women.

In North Dakota all citizens have self-government or votes except convicts, women, and lunatics.

In Ohio all persons have votes or self-government except the perpetrators of infamous crimes, women and idiots.

In Oregon all citizens have votes or self-government except convicts, women, and the non compos mentis.

In Pennsylvania all persons have self-government or votes except perjurers, election bribers, the insane and women.

In Rhode Island all citizens have votes except lunatics, women and inmates of poor-houses.

In North and South Carolina all citizens have votes or self-government except felons, duellists, murderers and women.

In Tennessee all citizens have self-government or votes except those convicted of bribery, arson, murder or other infamous offences, women and idiots.

In Vermont all citizens have self-government or votes except perjurers the feebleminded and women.

In Virginia all citizens have self-government or votes except persons convicted of the crimes of treason, embezzlement, bribery, felony, larceny, murder and women.

In Washington all citizens have votes or selfgovernment except women, murderers and persons incarcerated in penal and lunatic asylums.

In Wisconsin all citizens have self-government or votes except the feeble-minded, women, and persons in the penitentiary.

And, ladies, that is not the worst of it, for it should be borne in mind that the hydra-the

forty-million headed monster-which is placed over American women by their government as their ruler, is not the creation of the nativeborn white men only, but also of millions of men from the slums, prisons and fields of the entire world-the scum, the outcasts, the outlaws from over the earth-negro ex-slaves, semi-barbarians from Africa, semi-savage Indians,* Mexican ex-peons, Chinese ex-coolies,† Russian ex-serfs, Roumanian ex-bandits, Turkish ex-brigands, penniless Italians, Poles, Hungarians, and peasants from Ireland, Germany and Austria. And yet it grows worse, for our sex is not even equal, in the eyes of the Republic, with criminals and lunatics-for in nearly all the States, the lunatic, during his lucid intervals, has complete selfgovernment, can vote and make laws for our women; and the criminal, when pardoned, has complete self-government, can vote and make laws for our women. No man is so low therein as

*Indians who give up their tribal relations or pay taxes can vote.

+Chinese who are citizens of the U. S. vote in several States.

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