polls in any appreciable number. At-the last election in one of the worst iprecincts of Denver there were 100 ¦women and only 20 of them voted; in »J             another precinct     of     the    same   sort,
is]             only 30 out of 400 votes were cast by     j
Mil                 women.
*<j                If space did not forbid. I wish that
itj<               I  might   picture  more  fully  the  other
*!J              side of this question;  I mean the suf-
«*J              frage  as  affecting  our  great  army  of
'hi              women wage-earners in the department
l^               store, the factory, the  packing houses,
hi               and  sweat  shops.    I    would    say    to
. fe               those women  who   speak    from    com-
fortable   homes     in     protest     against woman   suffrage:   "Can   you   not   cou-N|ii               cede  to  them   this  power     to     better
n;,               their  condition,   even   though   you   do      j
not care to use it yourselves?''
"All  governments   derive   their  just       | an                powers  from  the  consent  of  the  gov-
la,                erned,"  according  to   our  Declaration
fq                of  Independence,   and   I,     who     must
4,                obey  the  laws,* .claim   a   voice   in   the
*li                making  of,  them,    and  I  demand   the
ij                suffrage for myself and all women who
care to vote, not as a favor or privi-i«            lege, tout as a right.
!^;                 ESTHER SPONABLK  WRTGHT.
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"^lacking Up Brother Abbott
*j', Brother Lyman  Abbott   has   received   less  be-
.-c his manner of life has boon such as to re-
<¦ less.   But, following the Scriptural injunc-
what he wanted   lie   asked   for,   and   he  got
As is'well known,  our  Future   Brother  used
¦ ¦ l»' all kinds of si reformer.    Detestation of the
I'"i1* system and opposition to high tariffs con-
liiuted two  of the   most,   vital   articles   in   his
¦*•' reed, but  his   stronghold   was   woman   suffrage.
'Mo power eould or indeed was ever able to move,
" lim from that firm base until Brother Abbott's
'.' mc'hing voice rose from the wilderness.   Broth-   ,
^er Abbott, to it understood, is opposed tolhe idea, "' violently, of course, but suitably and consciously-   In fact, barring- perhaps Brother Eioiniii)
^Wm>s Gildkh   and   Mr.   Bkjiukd   Crokkh,   he
y--1 might be considered the leading exponent of the elonous anti-suffrage cause.   Well, the time came
^orlnm to strike  out  boldly  and  effectively   in
ffiT^V'1   aPPCal   fr°ln   some   lttJy   f"«"'»•  I ^|*tkmk that other ladies-especially bad ladies <
a%V not to be permitted to vote, whether •rff Wallt t0 or n°t- Judging from the fact ,i™ many of the women who atten«le«l the meot-,5*(! by request went away and joined the suffra-
»U3rother Abbott was  a little shy  of argu- -
,lln.t.   We looked for his speech impatiently in
««*s Outlook, only to be grievously disap-
'' by an  announcement  that  it  was  with-
i(w temporarily   from   publication,   presumably
^rrr/^v116 Mwwr »wth.ct was
;«« "i Brother Abbott and he tried for a ten-
«CM" 7T  ' S°me tllOught  he made ;t  an«l »>     oU,ht   he   didn,t     A]]yhowj   ^   utii.zed
U  c  H  aS!a Tnbpr °f the Interdependent i I^«1PP   Wlat d° yOU think ?-he got a letter ,       TKlent °f the TTnited States.    It was i k   f'' 'OttT  in   SM»«   -ys-one   of   those
•' -ivate       ;  ?ch Vllle:ar leading, but just for ^^m^^Ls^mwtion.     As   tb.>   n,,n^h
politely remarks, " Doirtor Abbott explained that it was not written to the meeting nor for publication, but was read by him with the President's consent.'' Incidentally it is published brazenly in the Outlook. One odd thing about it is that it isn't addressed to anybody. It is just a bolt shot into the blue. But clever! Never before was there so happy a marriage of consistency and expediency. The President is for the law but agin' its enforcement. He stands squarely and immovably upon " an equality of right," but has his doubts concerning "identity of function." Some women he finds " actively for it " and some "actively against it"; therefore, they are " lukewarm." He, too, is " tepid," because, after all, woman's chief mission is breeding. And so on, sincerely yours, etc. It was no great shakes of a letter, but it was the best our Future Brother could do, without making the imposni-I bio admission that he once held a wrong opijwon. More could hardly have been asked by Brother Abbott, and he presented the document with yu
air  of  finality.
i Secretary Root on Wom^n Suffrage
Secretary litxtr did not emulate the example of his chiefyrfhd shoot into space. lie addressed his communication plainly to one of the ladies who are determined to prevent other ladies from voting, lie flunks that when "a very large majority" of American women want the suffrage they will get it.    But listen !
" For the purpose of exercising the right of suffrage if they should ever get it, and for the purpose of determining intelligently whether they really want it. the women of tlie country generally ought to have and to seize the opportunity for a greater degree of < diicittion in quest ions of government and in the prae-1 ien 1 nit of government than they have had up to this time."
In other words, he would approve of women manifesting a purely academic interest. Mr. Tioor is a great lawyer. We wonder if he would have i  become one if, when he began his studies, there
— had been any doubt in his mind of his opportunity to apply his technical knowledge when he should have acquired it. And when he had absorbed the theories, whence did he derive his mastery of practice if not from the school of experience? Nevertheless, while urging women to acquire the " practical art of government," he would  not  only  deprive  them  of the  only  con-
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