estimate the quickening force and the gain in appreciation and
respect for law and order, if the mothers and the teachers of
these children were considered worthy of the principles which
they are asked to inculcate? Thousands of these women teachers
are college graduates with fine training and all are women of
more than average intelligence. They are not only bread winners
but very often they are the heads of families which they have
inherited. They are caring for and educating younger brothers and
sisters, nieces and nephews, and providing for aged fathers and
mothers. It has been said that the men of each class will protect
the women of each class. Witness the men teachers of New York
City, who in 1900 secured a State law that gave to themselves
salaries from 30 per cent. to 100 per cent. higher than to women
doing the same grade of work. A woman teacher in the elementary
schools must work nine years in order to receive the salary that
the man teacher begins with. She may and often does supervise
men, because of having passed a difficult examination, and
receive $800 a year less than the men whom she supervises. A
woman principal receives $1,000 less than a man principal in the
same grade of work, having the very same qualifications. Governor
Hughes has characterized these discriminations against women as
"glaring and gross inequalities," but in spite of the efforts of
15,000 women teachers for the last four years the inequalities
still continue. It is rather easy to see the value of the ballot
to the men teachers of the city of New York....

As citizens under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the
United States, we claim the honored and inherited right to
petition our Government or either branch thereof for a redress of
grievances that very plainly exist because of the present legal
status of women in 41 States of the Union. We ask that our
petition, which is signed by hundreds of thousands of law-abiding
citizens, shall receive serious and courteous attention. We well
know that when a petition of such great consequence to millions
of citizens is not so considered the foundation of republican
government is attacked and weakened where it should be supported
and strengthened.

Dr. Shaw: I present now Dr. Anna E. Blount, a physician from C