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The Test of Experiment.

Women in this country now have the full ballot in Wyoming,
Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, California, Kansas, Oregon, Arizona
and in the territory of Alaska, while in Illinois they can vote
for all municipal officers and Presidential electors. Abroad, they
have full Parliamentary suffrage in New Zealand, Australia, Finland,
Iceland, and Norway; while in the Isle of Man and in Bosnia, women
property owners can vote for members of the local Parliament. They
have municipal suffrage throughout England, Scotland, Ireland,
Wales, nine of the provinces of Canada, Sweden and Denmark, and
even in Burma and some parts of India. In some of these countries
they have had it for generations.

In all these places put together, the opponents thus far have not
found a dozen respectable men who assert over their own names
and addresses that it has had any bad results.

This is the more remarkable in view of the fact that active antisuffrage
associations in New York and Massachusetts have been
for years diligently gathering all the adverse testimony they could
find.

On the other hand, scores of the most highly esteemed men and
women in the equal suffrage states testify that the results are good.

In Wyoming, women have had the full ballot for nearly half a century.
For the last 25 years, the advocates of equal suffrage have
had a standing challenge, inviting its opponents to find, in all Wyoming,
two respectable men who will assert over their own names and
addresses that it has had any bad results whatever. The opponents
have thus far failed to respond.