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The Criminal Vote.

The vicious and criminal class is comparatively small among
women.

In the prisons of the United States as a whole, including those for
all kinds of offenses, women constitute only five and one-half per
cent of the prisoners, and the proportion is growing smaller.

Equal suffrage would increase the moral and law-abiding vote very

largely, while increasing the vicious and criminal vote very little.
This is a matter not of conjecture but of statistics.