women.... Now in many States married as well
as single women are proprietors of business enterprises upon the
same basis as men, and are interested as capitalists and
tax-payers in every law which affects the country industrially or
financially.

In 1894 a careful copy was made of the women taxpayers of
Brooklyn. Names with initials were not placed on the list, so
that the total was probably under rather than over estimated.
This showed 22.03 or nearly one-fourth of all the assessable
realty in the names of women, amounting to $110,000,000, besides
many large estates in which they were interested. In 1896 the
assessed value of real estate in the State of New York was
$4,506,985,694, which, if estimated in the same ratio, would give
taxable property owned by women to the extent of $1,124,221,423.

They are agriculturally interested, inasmuch as they are
frequently owners of large tracts of land in the West as well as
of smaller farms in our Eastern States. What shall we say to a
Government that gives land in severalty to the Indian, supplies
him with tools and rations, puts a ballot in his hand, and then
says to the American woman who purchases the same right to land,
"You shall not have the political privileges of American
citizenship?" Under the laws of our country every stock company
is obliged to give men and women shareholders a vote upon the
same basis, and one fails to see why a government, which
professedly exists to maintain the rights of the people, should
practice in its own dealing such flaunting injustice....

Women help to support every public institution in the State and
should have representation upon every board, and in the laws
which control them. They help to pay the army pensions and should
be allowed to help in deciding how much shall be paid. They help
to pay for standing armies and for navies and they have the
larger part in the nurture and training of every man who is in
army or navy, and this is not the smaller part of the tax, since
it is at times the matter of a life for a life. Women pay their
part of the taxes to support our public schools and have intense
interests in their well-doing. Twenty-six States have recognized
this fact and have given to women some kind of School Suffrage,
one has granted Municipal