000,000), in a statement to the New York Journal, regarding gigantic combinations and the consolidation of great industries.

The few American magnates, ten years hence, will regulate the wage scales of skilled and unskilled labor in every department of life; will set the price upon all raw material, thus bridling the producer; will put their own price upon manufactured products; will absolutely control the banks; will dictate all legislation in their own interests, thereby hampering the courts; will curb the press so as to silence free speech and eliminate the possibility of complaint by ownership of interest; will extend their ramifications to State and National politics, and successful candidates will be chosen by them long before conventions are held. This is an unmistakable outline of a true American picture which he who runs may read.-David Dudley Lynch.

WOMEN AND THE BALLOT

I know no argument for refusing the ballot to women that is not equally applicable to men. In America we are far behind England and

other countries of Europe in this as well as other just and beneficial legislation.-Rev. Father Thos. Sully.

American men ask: "Are not our legislators fathers, husbands, brothers, sons and therefore are not the interests of women perfectly safe in their hands?" This argument would have more force, were it not so obvious that every legal oppression under which women ever suffered was sanctioned and enforced by fathers, husbands, brothers and sons.-Lucy Stone.

There is one cause for dispensing with the labour of women by our government, and substituting that of men for it, which has not been given by the authors of the scheme-it is that women have no votes, and men have. This is the only reason.-Philadelphia Ledger. (When thousands of women were turned out of employment by the American government.)

Not a majority of any class, even of men, ever demanded the franchise. It will be granted to women when the majority of men can be brought to see that it is as much a woman's right as a man's, and when political exigencies

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