estions to be
voted on touch the interests of woman as they do those of
man. It is upon her finer sensibilities, her purer
instincts, and her maternal nature that the results of
immorality and vice in every form fall with more crushing
weight.

A criticism has been made upon the exercise of this right by the
women of Utah that the plural wives in that territory are under
the control of their polygamous husbands. Be that as it may, it
is an undoubted fact that there is probably no city of equal size
on this continent where there is less disturbance of the peace,
or where the citizen is more secure in his person or property,
either by day or night, than in the city of Salt Lake. A
qualified right of suffrage has also been given to women in
Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Michigan, Kentucky, and New York. Of
the operation of the law in the last-named State, Governor
Cornell in a message to the legislature on May 12, said:

The recent law, 1882, making women eligible as school
trustees, has produced admirable results, not only in
securing the election of many of them as trustees of
schools, but especially in elevating the qualifications of
men proposed as candidates for school-boards, and also in
stimulating greater interest in the management of schools
generally. The effect of these new experiences is to widen
the influence and usefulness of women.

So well satisfied are the representatives in the legislature of
that State with these results that the assembly, by a large
majority, recently passed to a third reading an act giving the
full right of suffrage to women, the passage of which has been
arrested in the Senate by an opinion of the attorney-general that
a constitutional amendment is necessary to accomplish the object.
In England women are allowed to vote at all municipal elections,
and hold the office of guardian of the poor. In four States,
Nebraska, Indiana, Oregon, and Iowa, propositions have passed
their legislatures and are now pending, conferring the right of
suffrage upon women.

Notwithstanding all these efforts, it is the opinion of the best
informed men and women, who have devoted more than a third