s offer to teach
_because other more profitable occupations are open_ to most
males who are competent to teach....

The ballot can not impart to the female physical strength which
she does not possess, nor can it open to her pursuits which she
does not have physical ability to engage in; and as long as she
lacks the physical strength to compete with men in the different
departments of labor, there will be more competition in her
department, and she must necessarily receive less wages.[47]

But it is claimed again that females should have the ballot as a
protection against the tyranny of bad husbands. This is also
delusive. If the husband is brutal, arbitrary or tyrannical, and
tyrannizes over her at home, the ballot in her hands would be no
protection against such injustice, but the husband who compelled
her to conform to his wishes in other respects would also compel
her to use the ballot, if she possessed it, as he might please to
dictate. The ballot would, therefore, be of no assistance to the
wife in such case, nor could it heal family strifes or
dissensions. On the contrary, one of the gravest objections to
placing the ballot in the hands of the female sex is that it
would promote unhappiness and dissensions in the family circle.
There should be unity and harmony in the family.[48] ...

When woman becomes a voter she will be more or less of a
politician, and will form political alliances or unite with
political parties which will frequently be antagonistic to those
to which her husband belongs. This will introduce into the family
circle new elements of disagreement and discord which will
frequently end in unhappy divisions, if not in separation and
divorce. This must frequently occur when she becomes an active
politician, identified with a party which is distasteful to her
husband. On the other hand, if she unites with her husband in
party associations and votes with him on all occasions so as not
to disturb the harmony and happiness of the family, then the
ballot is of no service, as it simply _duplicates the vote of the
male_ on each side of the question and leaves the result the
same.[49] ...

It may be said, however, that there is a class of young ladies
who do not choose to marry, and who select professions or
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