nd Governors. It will be impossible to prove to her
that she, who in law school fed on the same mental diet as did
these now renowned political leaders, is too ignorant to vote for
them or against them or that the quality of her brain forbids her
understanding of the great problems her law classmates are now
solving....

Dr. Shaw: The next speaker will be Miss Eveline Gano, a teacher of
history in one of the high schools of New York City, who will speak on
behalf of the teachers of the country.

Miss Gano. If the woman teacher's need of the ballot is a
debatable question then another very natural question arises: Do
men teachers need the ballot?... I am asked to speak particularly
of women who have made teaching a profession. In 1870, 41 per
cent. of the teachers in the United States were men; 21 per cent.
to-day are men. In large cities the number of women teachers is
still greater in proportion. In New York only 12-1/2 per cent. of
the 17,000 teachers are men. According to the last census there
are 17,000,000 children in the United States who should be in
elementary schools. Approximately 90 per cent. are taught almost
entirely by women. In New York City only seven per cent. of the
600,000 children in the public schools ever enter grades higher
than the elementary; in western cities a few more. Practically
all of the schooling that 90 citizens out of 100 ever get they
receive from the hands and hearts and minds of women. Whatever
this great number of future citizens knows of citizenship and
correct standards of morals and industry they have learned from
the mothers and the women teachers. The very foundations of law
and equity and justice are in the hands of women who are in the
eyes of the law but wards and dependents. If these women teachers
and mothers had a keener sense of their responsibilities by
actual participation in civic life, what might be the results in
even one decade? Who is to blame if they do not have the keener
sense?

One of the greatest problems facing this republic has been
turned over to women teachers--that of coping with the foreign
born and their children. Who can estimate the value of this great
constructive work, the creation of American citizens out of the
varied materials that are landed on our shores? And who can