rage,
are not the result of the act of voting, but are the expressions
of course, criminal and evil natures, excited by the desire for
victory. The admission to the polls of delicate and tender women
would, without injury to them, tend to refine and elevate the
politics in which they took a part. When, in former times, women
were excluded from social banquets, such assemblies were scenes
of ribaldry and excess. The presence of women has substituted for
them the festival of the Christian home.

The majority of the committee state the following as their
reasons for the conclusion to which they come:

_First_--If the petitioners' prayer be granted it will make
several millions of female voters.

_Second_--These voters will be inexperienced in public
affairs.

_Third_--They are quite generally dependent on the other
sex.

_Fourth_--They are incapable of military duty.

_Fifth_--They are without the power to enforce the laws
which their numerical strength may enable them to make.

_Sixth_--Very few of them wish to assume the irksome and
responsible duties which this measure thrusts upon them.

_Seventh_--Such a change should only be made slowly and in
obedience to a general public demand.

_Eighth_--There are but thirty thousand petitioners.

_Ninth_--It would be unjust to impose "the heavy burden of
governing, which so many men seek to evade, on the great
mass of women who do not wish for it, to gratify the few who
do."

_Tenth_--Women now have the sympathy of judges and juries
"to an extent which would warrant loud complaint on the part
of their adversaries of the sterner sex."

_Eleventh_--Such a change should be made, if at all, by the
States. Three-fourths of the States should not force it on
the others. In any State in which "any considerable part of
the women wish for the right to vote, it will be granted
without the intervention of congress."

The first objection of the committee is to the large increase of
the number of the voting population. We believe on the other
hand, that to double the numbers of the constituent body, and to
compose one-half that body of women, would tend