VI.  The low standards of citizenship which lead to controlled votes, bribery and various forms of corruptions, will be accentuated by woman suffrage with the doubling of every dangerous element, hence any effort to postpone its coming is justifiable.  Woman suffrage will increase the proportion of intelligent voters.  According to the Commissioners of Education there are now one-third more girls in the high schools of the country than boys.  In 1914, the latest figures, 64,491 boys were graduated from the high schools of the United States and 96,115 girls.  In the normal schools the educational report for 1915 states that 80 per cent. of the pupils were girls.  The Census of 1910 reports a larger number of illiterate men than illiterate women.

Woman suffrage would increase the moral vote.  Only one out of every twenty criminals are women.  Women constitute a minority of drunkards and petty misdemeanants, and in all the factors that tend to handicap the progress of society women form a minority; whereas in churches, schools and all organizations working for the uplift of humanity, women are a majority.  In all American states and countries that have adopted equal suffrage the vote of the disreputable woman is practically negligible, the slum wards of cities invariably having the lightest woman vote and the respectable residence wards the heaviest.  Woman suffrage would increase the number of native born voters as for every 100 foreign white women immigrants coming to this country there are 129 men, while among Asiatic immigrants the men outnumber the women two to one, according to the Census of 1910.

Woman suffrage would help to correct election procedure.  In all states where women vote, the polling booths have been moved into homes, church parlors, school houses or other similar respectable places.  Women serve as election officials and the subduing influence of woman’s presence elsewhere has had its effect upon the elections.  Women greatly increase the number of competent persons who can be drawn upon as election officials.  No class of persons in the nation is so well trained as school teachers for this work.  The presence of women as voters and officials would in itself eliminate certain types of irregularity and go a long way toward establishing a higher standard of election procedure.  Woman suffrage cannot possibly make political conditions worse, since all the elements which combine to produce those conditions are less conspicuous among women than men.  On the other hand the introduction of a new class possessing a very large number of persons who would unwillingly tolerate some of the conditions now prevailing offers evidence that a powerful influence for better things would come with the woman’s vote.

VII.  PROHIBITION HAS OUTSTRIPPED SUFFRAGE, THEREFORE SUFFRAGE SENTIMENT IS LESS STRONG.