In Wyoming, out of 45,000 registered voters, 20,000 are reported as women.  But Wyoming has 219 men to every 100 women of voting age.  Therefore to compare favorably with Wyoming’s 20,000 women voters there should the 53,800 men.

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In Montana, one-third of a registration of 255,000 is made up of women.  Montana has 189.6 men to every 100 women.  As there were only 81,741 women of voting age in Montana in 1910, the present number, 85,000, must mean that nearly every woman in the state voted in 1916.

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About 40% of Utah’s 130,000 registration is made up of women.  Utah has 6 men of voting age to every 5 women, 20% more men than women.

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In Idaho, out of a registration of 95,000, there are 40,000 women.  Idaho has more than half as many again men as women.  Therefore to have a fifty-fifty representation at the polls, Idaho should have registered 60,000 men instead of 55,000 to match its 40,000 women.

IV.  CONSTITUENCY HAS INSTRUCTED AGAINST SUFFRAGE.

This objection is urged by members in whose states there have been referenda on the subject in recent years with adverse results.  Members of Congress are apportioned among the several states according to population and are constitutionally obligated to represent women as well as men.  As the electors of no constituency have voted solidly against woman suffrage, such objectors are accepting instructions from less than half their adult constituents and often from less than one-fourth.  Women have had no opportunity to speak for themselves.  As a matter of very suggestive fact, thirty-five members of Congress, who upon interview have expressed opposition to the Federal Amendment, were elected by minorities.  Some of these represent states which have had a referendum on woman suffrage and were elected by a smaller number of total votes than their respective districts gave the suffrage amendment.  These are such curious facts, that it is difficult to believe in the sincerity of the objection.  That men and elements which have contributed money and work to secure the election of a member of Congress instruct him how to vote is more believable.  For the sake of the common welfare of the American people, it is well, that the number of such members is probably few.

V. Political expediency.  The South professes to fear the increased Negro vote; the North, the increased Foreign vote; the rich, the increased labor vote; the conservative, the increased illiterate vote.  The Republicans since the recent presidential election fear the increased Democratic vote; the Democrats fear the woman voters’ support was only temporary.  The “wet” fears the increased dry vote; the “dry” the increased controlled wet vote.  Certain very numerous elements fear the