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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.