d at things mainly from
their own point of view. It does not indicate any special
depravity on the part of men. I have no doubt that if women alone
had made the laws, those laws would be just as one-sided as they
are to-day, only in the opposite direction.

It is said that if women are enfranchised, husbands and wives
will vote just alike, and you will simply double the vote and
have no change in the result. Then, in the next breath, it is
said that husbands and wives would vote for opposing candidates,
and then there would be matrimonial quarrels. If they vote just
alike there will be no harm done, and this good may be done--the
women will be broadened by a knowledge of public affairs, and
husband and wife will have a subject of mutual interest in which
they can sympathize with each other. In cases where husband and
wife do not think alike as to who will make the best selectmen,
for instance, you will admit that is hardly sufficient to cause
them to quarrel; but if they should think differently on very
many other points, they would quarrel anyway, so that politics
would not make much difference with them.

Then it is said that women do not want to vote, and in proof it
is said they do not vote generally for school committeemen where
allowed to do so. We all know that the size of the vote cast at
any election is just in proportion to the amount of interest that
election calls forth. At a Presidential election nearly all the
voters turn out; in an ordinary State election only about half;
at a municipal election only a small fraction of the men take the
trouble to vote. The Troy _Press_ states that at a recent
election in Syracuse for a board of education, out of about 3,000
qualified voters only 40 voted.

Then, it is said that this movement is making no progress; that
while the movements along other lines are largely succeeding,
there has been no advance along this line. Twenty-five years ago,
with insignificant exceptions, women could not vote anywhere.
To-day they have school suffrage in twenty-three States, full
suffrage in Wyoming, municipal suffrage in Kansas, and municipal
suffrage for single women and widows in England, Scotland and
most of the British provinces. The common sense of the world is
slowly but surely working toward