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Too Many Voters.

This only means that we have too many voters of the wrong kind.
If to increase the number of voters were an evil in itself, every
woman who becomes the mother of half a dozen sons would have
done harm to her country. But if all six grew up to be good voters
she has conferred a benefit on her country. So she has if five of
them become good voters, and only one a bad voter. Woman suffrage
would bring in at least five good voters to one bad one.

It is often said that we have too many immigrants. We mean too
many immigrants of an undesirable kind. We all rejoice when we
hear of a large influx from Finland or some other country whose
people are considered especially desirable immigrants. We want
them to offset those of less virtuous and lawabiding races. The
Governor of one of the enfranchised states writes of woman suffrage:
"The effect of this increase in the vote is the same as if a
large and eminently respectable class of citizens had immigrated
here."