from day to day in attendance upon the court as a juror, and to
be shut up in the jury room from night to night with men who are
strangers, while a question of life or property is being
discussed; if she is to attend political meetings, take part in
political discussions and mingle with the male sex at political
gatherings; if she is to become an active politician; if she is
to attend political caucuses at late hours of the night; if she
is to take part in all the unsavory work that may be deemed
necessary for the triumph of her party; and if on election day
she is to leave her home and go upon the streets electioneering
for votes for the candidates who receive her support, and
mingling among the crowds of men who gather round the polls, she
is to press her way through them to the precinct and deposit her
ballot; if she is to take part in the corporate struggles of the
city or town in which she resides, attend to the duties of his
honor, the mayor, the councilman, or of policeman, to say nothing
of the many other like obligations which are disagreeable (!)
even to the male sex, how is she, with all these heavy duties of
citizen, politician and officeholder resting upon her shoulders,
to attend to the more sacred, delicate, refining trust to which
we have already referred, and for which she is peculiarly fitted
by nature? Who is to care for and train the children while she
is absent in the discharge of these masculine duties?[42]

But it has been said that the present law is unjust to woman;
that she is _often_ required to pay tax on the property she holds
without being permitted to take part in framing or administering
the laws by which her property is governed, and that she is taxed
without representation. _That is a great mistake._ It may be very
doubtful whether the male or female sex in the present state of
things has more influence in the administration of the affairs of
the government and the enactment of the laws by which we are
governed.[43]

While the woman does not discharge military duty, nor does she
attend courts and serve on juries, nor does she labor on the
public streets, bridges or highways, nor does she engage actively
and publicly in the discussion of political affairs, nor does she
enter the _crowded precincts of the b