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Women have played no small part in gaining our national 

 rights for man. 



Man is continually asserting and demanding his rights, and 

 we suppose he will continue doing so to the end of time. 

 Woman has the same right, and of course she wants a helping 

 hand. Mutual help for mutual good. 



Men do not monopolize all the rights. We women have a 

 share, and we are not satisfied. At present the demand seems 

 to be for an equal share. When that shall have been gained, no 

 doubt, in accordance with woman's aggressive and progressive 

 nature she will demand greater rights than man. 



It looks as though the right of suffrage for woman is about 

 as near as civil service reform question, the trouble about this 

 voting business is, the men think the women are not ready to 

 vote. They say, " whenever the women are ready to vote they 

 can vote. "Now we women know better; it's the men who are 

 not ready for the women to vote. Whenever the men are ready 

 for us to vote we can vote, and no sooner. Man's belief, very 

 naturally, is made up of his desires ; he does not want woman to 

 vote, so he believes she ought not to. Then a man is forever 

 taking the dark side of this voting question; he doesn't see how 

 it can be managed. Perhaps if we could put ourselves in man's 

 place and think as he thinks, we should dislike very much to 

 think of hurrying home before noon on presidential election day 

 to take care of things at home, while wife and daughters went to 

 vote in the afternoon. But why couldn't the brighter side pre- 

 sent itself as easily. Why couldn't he be thinking of the 

 pleasure of taking wife and daughters with him to the polls; so 

 many more votes from his family — one, two, three, lour more 

 votes for . 



However, we must let Mrs. Livermore, S. B. Anthony and 

 all the others who know how, talk the men into the voting 

 business; only we wish they would hurry them up a little to 

 give us a chance to vote on the temperance question. 



The men know very well that woman is ready for that ques- 

 tion and that she would vote soberly and intelligently if the 



