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SUGGESTED ARGUMENTS.

The arguments which are suggested below are not intended to be
exhaustive but merely to intimate certain broad issues involved in
the question.

FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE.

I. Women are physically able to vote.

II. To give women the ballot will effect much needed legislation
in regard to child labor, schools, etc.

III. The average man knows little of the business of government
and must rely on the testimony of experts, and so it would be with
women.

IV. Every good reform begins with only a few followers and gradually
grows thereafter. So it is with woman suffrage.

V. Fighting is not essential to voting as a large proportion of the
men who vote are physically unable to fight.

VI. There are far more girls who graduate from high schools than
boys, hence suffrage would increase the educated vote.

VII. Although women may exercise an indirect influence on their
husbands, fathers, and brothers to have them vote for needed reforms,
yet to allow the women themselves to vote would be a much
quicker and more effective method.

VIII. Women are no busier than men and therefore haye sufficient
time to exercise the privilege of the ballot.

IX. A certain amount of sentiment and emotion is essential to good
government.

X. Women are different from men and the introduction of their
ballot would add a new and better element to politics.

FOR THE NEGATIVE.

I. Women may exert an indirect influence on their husbands,
fathers, and brothers and thus be represented.

II. To the vote of every uneducated man you would add the vote
of an uneducated woman.

III. Men know more about the business of government.

IV. The majority of the women of today do not want suffrage.

V. Fighting is necessary to voting. Hence women should be able
to fight if they are to vote.

VI. Women are too emotional and sentimental to be entrusted
with the ballot.

VII. If the privilege of voting is given to women they will not
exercise it.

VIII. If women did exercise the right of voting, it would only increase
the expense of elections without changing the results.

IX. Suffrage is not a natural right, for all men are not permitted
to vote.

X. Woman's function in life does not lie in the sphere of politics.