nt to vote that may be satisfied to receive only 75
per cent. as much as men teachers and to have no chance at highly
paid superintendencies. There may be a mother who does not want
equality at the ballot box nor in the guardianship of her
children. There may be some factory girl who so earnestly
believes it right to receive less wages than men do that she
never wants the ballot to help her get equal pay for equal work.
It may be that there is some woman paying heavy taxes--heavier
than the equally wealthy man next door--who is happy to be taxed
without being represented. It may be that some woman
civil-service employee at Washington or in the State has for a
long time been at the top of the list of those who are eligible
for promotion and has seen men below her on the list
requisitioned for places with large salaries and approves of this
and enjoys being discriminated against because she is not a
voter. There may be some woman physician who does not want to
vote and who observes uncomplainingly that all remunerative
political offices to which physicians are eligible on city or
State boards of health or in public hospitals are filled by men.
There may be a nurse so busy saving life that she has not
realized the foolishness of her disfranchisement on the ground
that she was never a soldier to destroy life. There may be some
young woman in railroad office, stenographer, bookkeeper or
clerk, who meekly approves an order for the discharge of all
women employees for the ostensible reason that they marry too
soon but for the real reason that they do not vote.

There may be a woman in any of these varied employments who is so
convinced of her own inferiority that she does not want the
ballot but to the credit of the women lawyers it may be said that
almost every one does want to vote and can tell several reasons
why. A woman may in this century go through a law college the
only woman in her class without discomfort. She opens those
sacred law books as easily and learns as readily as do the men
and passes as good an examination. She sees her young men
classmates rise to great distinction in the service of the State.
She may count among them, as I can, city attorneys, State
attorneys, civil-service commissioners, Judges of high degree,
Senators a