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What eight million women want

CHAPTER X
19/33

If an Irish vote, or a German vote, or a Catholic vote, or a Hebrew vote is to be dreaded, say the men, how much more of a menace would a woman vote be.

I heard a man, a delegate from an anti-suffrage association, solemnly warn the New York State Legislature, at a suffrage hearing, against this danger of a woman vote.

"When the majority of women and the minority of men vote together," he declared, "there will be no such thing as personal liberty left in the United States." [Illustration: SUFFRAGETTES IN MADISON SQUARE.] Under certain conditions a woman vote is not an unthinkable contingency.
It has even occurred.
For the edification of the possible reader who is entirely uninformed, it may be explained that women are not entirely disenfranchised in the United States.

Women vote on equal terms with men, in four States.

They have voted in Wyoming since 1869; in Colorado since 1894; in Utah and Idaho since 1896.


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