n that women
are at a disadvantage as non-voting members of the community. As a
recent fact in regard to the government I would cite the order by
Postmaster-General Payne that a woman employee must give up her
position if she marries." The report continued:

Nearly all the appointments in the departments obtained last year
by women were as printers' assistants at a small salary. Not a
woman has been selected by the Pension Office in six years. In
1902 twenty-seven women were chosen as typewriters and
stenographers and 114 men. The Civil Service Commissioners are
compelled by law to keep separate lists of men and women who have
passed examinations and must certify to the appointing officers
from either list as specified by the heads of the bureaus, so
that it is quite possible for these to keep women out and fill
the places with voters. Commissioner W. D. Foulke not long ago
called the attention of the chiefs of bureaus to the fact that by
taking from the men's list down to the lowest point of
eligibility, while women who passed with a rank of 90 and over
were not chosen, the Government was not getting the skilled labor
to which it was entitled.

The continued defeat of child labor protection laws in some of
the southern States and the conditions of children working in the
mines of Pennsylvania, as shown in testimony before the Coal
Strike Commission, show the need of woman's help in shaping
social economics and her powerlessness without the ballot.... How
can we get hold of the wage-earning women in mass and convince
them that from their own selfish and personal standpoint, if from
no other, they should join the ranks of those that are working
for the ballot? Talented speakers from the ranks of wage-earners
have thrilled audiences with their impetuous oratory but there
has been no general rally of working women to secure the ballot
for themselves....

How can we stimulate in women of wealth and opportunity, whose
influence would be invaluable and whose support might give the
movement the financial backing it needs, a consciousness of the
solidarity of human interests, so they will see that from an
impersonal, unselfish standpoint, if they have no personal need,
they are under the most commanding obligation to add their
strength to ours to make bette