nce.
Proctor, Adelaide A.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray.
Rollitt, Sir Albert, Earl of Selborne.
Salisbury, Marquis of. Prime Minister.
Selborne, Earl of.
Sidgwick, Mrs. Henry, Princ. of Newnham.
Somerset, Lady Henry, Pres. World's W. C. T. U.
Somerville, Mary, Astronomer.
Stead, Wm. T.
Tallon, Daniel. Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Taylor, Peter A., M. P., and Mrs.
Thomson (Archbish. of York), Mrs.
Todd, Isabella M. S. (Ireland).
Unwin, Jane Cobden.
Wigham, Eliza.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, Author of Rights of Woman (1792).
Woodall, William, M. P.
Wyndham, Hon. George.

FRANCE.

Dumas, Alexandre (fils).
Hugo, Victor.

AUSTRALIA.

Barton, Edmund, Premier.
Cockburn, Sir John, K. C. W. G.,
Kingston, Hon. C. C., Premier S. Aus.
Lyne, Sir William, Premier N. S. W.
Onslow, Lady.
Parkes, Sir Henry, Premier N. S. W.
Reid, Sir G. H., Premier N. S. W.
Turner, Sir George, Premier Victoria.
Windeyer, Lady.

NEW ZEALAND.

Hall, Sir John.
Seddon, H. J., Premier.
Stout, Sir Robert, Premier.
Vogel, Sir Julius, Colonial Treas.

CANADA.

Hall, Sir John, M. P.
MacDonald, Sir John, Premier.

SOUTH AFRICA.

Schreiner, Olive.

TESTIMONY FROM WOMAN SUFFRAGE STATES.[501]

No attempt is made to give here the mass of testimony which is easily
available from the States where women vote, but only enough is
presented to show its nature and the character of those who offer it.
In the four States where women have exercised the full franchise for
from six to thirty-three years, not half a dozen reputable persons
have said over their own names that any of the evils which were so
freely predicted have come to pass or that its effect upon men, women
or the community has been other than good. The small amount of
criticism which has been openly made has been anonymous or from those
whose word was entitled to no weight. There is not another public
question on which the testimony is so uniformly one-sided, and similar
evidence on any other would be accepted as sufficiently conclusive to
demand a unanimous verdict in its favor.

In 1901 Amos R. Wells, editor of the _Christian Endeavor World_, wrote
to twenty-five ministers of several different denominations, choosing
their names at random among his subscribers in the equal suffrage
States, and asking them whether equal suffrage was working well,
fairly well or badly. One answered that it worked badly, three tha