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Our Modern Nlnarvas.It is incontestible that the intellect of our country is fast being represented by our daughters. The last report of the superintendent of public instruction of Pennsylvania is significant. It shows the number of high school graduates in that state, for the year 1899, to have been 3,476, of which 2,122 were girls— or nearly twice as many girls as boys who pursue the higher public school course. The majority of teachers in the state are women.How much wiser to grant this educated American womankind enfranchisement and representation in our government than to confer upon newly naturalized, illiterate immigrants the dangerous power of the ballot. Conservatism, not justice, regards these brainy women and girls as political inferiors. With women forging ahead in all the professions and wage-earning avenues, it will be blit a few years when the imperative demand will be for womanly council in our national legislation.It is noticeable that, whenever the question of woman suffrage has been submitted, the objection has come from the unassimiiated foreign and slum vote. American men, whose observation of womankind has been formed at American hearthstones, are prompt to admit equality.In the four states of our union where women and men legislate on equal terms there is no discrimination against the sex in wages or position. Ability is the test.All hail! then, to these Minerva daughters, who are designed to bring into the family of the future a higher standard, emblazoned with equality, wisdom and skill—the heritage of children born of parents equal in family and state. IDA PORTER-BOYER.
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Minneapolis Representative
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Thu, Nov 15, 1900
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