ome more and more man's equal and competitor, leaving behind
those conditions which so long made her dependent upon him. This
has not been of her choosing. Men, in their pursuit of wealth,
have taken the work formerly done in the home, from the spinning
and weaving even down to the baking and laundering, and massed it
in great factories and shops. Instead of woman taking man's work,
it is the reverse and he has appropriated to himself what was
long supposed to be hers. Woman finds that what was formerly with
her a work of love is now done under new conditions and strange
environments.

This experience in the outside world is educating her, for she is
studying conditions. She sees that she is forced to compete with
those who have full political rights while she herself is a
political nonentity. She finds that she must contend with and
protect herself against conditions which are more often political
than economic, thus forcing upon her the conviction that she too
is entitled to be a voter. She sees that politics, business and
industrial life generally are so united that one affects the
other and that since she is a factor in two she should be granted
the rights and privileges of the third. Think of the number of
women wage-earners in this country who are without political
representation, there being no men in the family, and at present
laws all made without a woman's point of view!... The working
woman does not ask for the ballot as a panacea for all her ills.
She knows that it carries with it responsibilities but all that
it is to man it will be and even more to woman. Let her remain
man's inferior politically and unjust discriminations against her
as a wage-earner will continue, but let her become his equal
politically and she will then be in a position to demand equal
pay for equal work.

In a speech of deep feeling Miss Laura Clay, president of the Kentucky
Suffrage Association, said in part: "Gentlemen, when I hear our women
making the pleas that they have made, brought up, as I have been, to
believe that the manhood of the United States is the grandest in the
world, I ask, 'Shall we not find any members of Congress except those
who say, 'Can you not get some one else to protect you? Go to your
States, go anywhere but do not come to us?' It has been said to me
when I have