h she should be
protected. Should she ever need protection against "her
protector," there is no one to give it....

Entrance into remunerative employments in many instances has been
denied women. In many of the States the professions of law,
medicine, dentistry and all the elective offices are closed by
statute. Appointive positions, also, which women might legally
hold are practically withheld from them because of their lack of
the ballot. The appointing power--president, governor, mayor,
judge or commissioner--all owe their own positions to voters who
expect some minor appointment in acknowledgment of service.

Even large private corporations not supposed to be influenced by
politics have occasionally desired and received governmental help
and protection. In return, the employes of these enterprises have
been advised to vote for the party which has protected their
employers' business. At a caucus, a street parade and on election
day, the 500 or 10,000 or 100,000 persons employed in a certain
industry make a considerable political showing if they are all
voters. On such occasions women employes are of no value. Women
refused employment in various enterprises not alone are injured
in their feelings, but they are not protected in their right to
earn food, shelter and clothes.

There are many different kinds of employment which do not debar
women, but even in these they need protection in securing a fair
return for their labor. In an investigation conducted by the U.
S. Department of Labor concerning the wages received by men and
women it appeared that in 75 per cent. of the 782 instances
investigated, men received 50 per cent. higher wages than did
women laboring with the same degree of efficiency on the same
kind of work.

Women also need protection of their property. A man who knows the
inside truth says, "Widows and minors are always assessed higher
than men." If the assessor desires re-election, one of the
easiest methods of securing it is to lower the assessments of the
politicians who control most voters....

Women also want protection for the one sphere which even the most
conservative loudly proclaim should be theirs--the home. That the
water supply is good and abundant, that the sewage is carried
away properly and speed