It is said that almost every member of the faculty of Columbia University signed the Suffrage petition presented to the Congress of 1909.

Well-known professors of many Western universities and colleges have spoken and written in favor of equal suffrage.

In New York City a flourishing Voters' League for Equal Suffrage has been formed, with a membership running into the hundreds.
[Illustration: THE "QUIET WALK" OF THE NEW YORK SUFFRAGISTS, WHOM THE POLICE WOULD NOT PERMIT TO PARADE] To the average unprejudiced man the old arguments against political equality have almost entirely lost weight.

The theory that women should not vote because they cannot fight is now rarely argued.

Municipal governments certainly no longer rest on physical force.