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every privilege as a citizen, but carries but little of the bur- 

 den. How can this difficulty be reached but by a tax on all 

 incomes above a specified sum, say $600 or $1,000, not de- 

 rived from capital which is of itself taxed ? 



Then why should not women who are taxed have the 

 right of voting, at least where taxation and expenditure are 

 concerned ? A man, a clerk at a salary of $1,000 per annum, 

 niay pay no other tax except poll tax ; and a woman with a 

 farm yielding an equal annual revenue pays a tax on $20,- 

 000, and educates this man's children, and supports him 

 and his family if they become paupers, and still has no 

 voice in controlling expenditures for these purposes, or pre- 

 venting those causes that produce pauperism and .crime, the 

 great burdens upon the public exchequer. If men will not 

 right these wrongs, will they not at least allow the women 

 to do it? Though not a female suffragist, I see the point to 

 which I am led by my own admissions and arguments. My 

 hope and argument is that there is honor and magnanimity 

 enough among the men, love for their mothers, wives and 

 sisters, to zealously defend their rights and regard their 

 wishes, even when not forced to do it by their action at the 

 polls. 



The endowment of railroads with large tracts of the pub- 

 lic domain, and the homestead acts, causing the rapid settle- 

 ment of new sections, to the depletion of the old, and the 

 schemes for irrigation by the national government, to fit 

 barren land for cultivation, are all in the interest of specu- 

 lators ; and it is time to call a halt, and see if we are not 

 thus wasting natural resources that belong to posterit}s as 

 well as endangering the healthy development of the settled 

 portions of the country. 



None of this legislation, as we progress in the enumer- 

 ation, is for farmers, but for agriculture. The dog law for 

 the protection of sheep is another illustration, and should 

 be so effective in its requirements by reaching all dogs, with 

 a tax upon this luxury so high, as to accomplish the object 

 of protecting sheep, so that the dog nuisance should no 

 longer interfere with the success of this industry. 



The farm dog, to keep in check the various vermin that 

 destroy lambs, poultry or crops, and serve as protection to 



