But, on the other hand, there is reason to suppose that women, through their greater interest in certain goods, will materially accelerate some reforms-as, the sanitation of cities, the improvement of education, child-welfare legislation, the warfare against alcohol and prostitution.  The actual results already attained where women vote are, on the whole, important enough to warrant the extension of the right, as a matter of social expediency.  Moreover, the very increase in the number of voters makes the securing of power through bribery more difficult; and the entrance of women into politics will probably hasten their purification in many places.  At any rate, the necessity of voting will tend to develop a larger interest among women in public affairs, to fit them better for the education of their children, and to do away with the lingering sense of the inferiority of women.  Certain it is, finally, that an increasing number of women want the vote, and will not rest till they get it.

General:  F. W. Taussig, Principles of Economics, chap. 54.  W. E. Weyl, The New Democracy, book I. Adams and Sumner, Labor Problems, chap.  XIII.  C. B. Spahr, The Present Distribution of Wealth in the United States.  Dewey and Tufts, Ethics, chap.  XXV, secs. 6, 7.  Atlantic Monthly, vol. 112, pp. 480, 679.  The single tax:  Henry George, Progress and Poverty; Social Problems.  R. C. Fillebrown, The A.B.C. of Taxation.  Outlook, vol. 94, p. 311.  Shearman, Natural Taxation.  Atlantic Monthly, vol. 112, p. 737; vol. 113, pp. 27, 545.  H. R. Seager, Introduction to Economics, chap, xxvi, secs. 283-88.  F. W. Taussig, op. cit, chap. 42, sec. 7.  Arena, vol. 34, p. 500; vol. 35, p. 366.  New World, vol. 7, p. 87.  Free trade:  North American Review, vol. 189, p. 194.  Quarterly Review, vol. 202, p. 250.  H. Fawcett, Free Trade and Protection.  W. J. Ashley, The Tariff Problem.  H. R. Seager, op. cit, chap.  XX, secs. 211-17.  F. W. Taussig, op. cit, chaps. 36, 37.  Immigration:  Jenks and Lauck, The Immigration Problem.  H. P. Fairchild, Immigration.  Adams and Sumner, Labor Problems, chap.  III.  F. J. Warne, The Immigrant Invasion.  A. Shaw, Political Problems, pp. 62-86.  North American Review, vol. 199, p. 866.  Nineteenth Century, vol. 57, p. 294.  Educational Review, vol. 29, p. 245.  Forum, vol. 42, p. 552.  Charities, vol. 12, p. 129.  Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 16, pp. 1, 141.  The woman question:  J. S. Mill, The Subjection of Women.  C. P. Gilman, Women and Economics.  O. Schreiner, Woman and Labor.  K. Schirmacher, The Modern Woman’s Rights Movement.  Jane Addams, Newer Ideals of Peace, chap.  VII.  F. Kelley, Some Ethical Gains through Legislation, chap.  V. Outlook, vol. 82, p. 167; vol. 91, pp. 780, 784, 836; vol. 95, p. 117; vol. 101, pp. 754, 767.  Atlantic Monthly, vol. 112, pp. 48, 191, 721.  Century, vol. 87, pp. 1, 663.  National Municipal Review, vol. 1, p. 620.

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