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that feminine legislators might assume toward mankind were the positions of the sexes reverse, men instead of women demanding the right of franchise.

Miss Addams displays with scathing logic the difficult position in which man would be placed if favorable consideration of his demand depends on the record of his past and present performance.

The second installation of Miss Addams' remarkable argument entitled "Why Women Should Vote" follows:

WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE By Jane Addams.

Suppose that the women of this day, being in control of legislation and affairs, were called on to deliberate the wisdom of permitting an equal share in the conduct of government with men, would it not be entirely 'within the bounds of reason that the woman's argument against such a departure might include such statements of fact as I have already indicated, and might she not well continue in this strain:

"We have heard that in certain states, in order to save the paltry price of a guard which would protect a dangerous machine, men legislators allow careless boys and girls to lose their fingers and sometimes their hands, thereby crippling their entire futures. These male legislators do not make guarded machinery obligatory, although they know that when the heads of families are injured at these unprotected machines, the state must care for them in hospitals, and when they are killed, that, if necessary, the state must provide for their widows and children in poorhouses."

Can't Understand Youth.

These wise women governing the state with the same care they had always put into the management of their families, would further charge these men who were seeking the franchise with the fact that men do not really know how tender and delicate children are, and might put them to work in factories, as indeed they have done in man-made states during the entire period of factory production. We can imagine these women saying:

"We have been told that in certain states children are taken from their beds in the early morning, before it is light, and carried into cotton mills, where they are made to run back and forth tending the spinning frames, until their immature little bodies are so bent and strained that they never regain their normal shapes; we have heard that because glassblowers have a tradition that their soft material must be carried quickly by boys into a hot oven, therefore these masculine legislators permit boys to work not only by day, but also by night.

"These boys, coming directly from the heat of the furnace into the chlll of the early morning, contract pneumonia, although we know for a fact that the man