In the Isle-of-Man

they vote for members of Parliament; in Wyoming, in the United States, they vote for members of Congress; in the Slavonic Provinces of Austria they vote by proxy in Municipal, Provincial, and national elections; and, in Finland, a Scandinavian Province of Russia, the Governor has recently declared that "man or woman who pays rates should vote."

It seems absurd that thousands of landladies of hotels and boarding-houses, who have sunk much capital in the country, are maintaining themselves and families, and bearing the burden of taxation, but cannot vote because they are women, while their waiters, barmen, and odd-men, can vote merely because they are page 2 men. Over twenty thousand women-farmers in England manage their estates and pay taxes, but cannot vote, while their ploughmen can vote merely because they are men. In New Zealand,