ut a female
relative in the world.

Then, again, suppose that all the women in one family do not
think alike. A member of our Massachusetts Legislature had two
daughters. One was a suffragist, the other was so much opposed
that she used to burn the _Woman's Journal_ as soon as it came in
the house. How was that man to represent both his daughters by
his single vote on the suffrage question? Instead of two
daughters he might have had three, one a Republican, one a
Democrat and the other a Prohibitionist. How could he have
represented all of them by his one vote unless he had voted
"early and often?"

Again, in order to represent the women of his family a man may
have to go without representation himself. There was a case of an
old gentleman in Chicago, a Greenbacker, who had three daughters,
all of whom were Republicans. When election day approached his
three daughters said to him that he was the natural
representative of their family--he had always told them so, and
they fully agreed with him--and they pointed out to him how very
wrong it would be, when that family consisted of three
Republicans and only one Greenbacker, with but one ballot to
represent the family, that it should be cast for the Greenback
candidate. The old gentleman was conscientious and consistent
and, although he was a man of strong Greenback convictions, he
actually voted the Republican ticket in order to represent his
daughters. It was the nearest he could come to representing them
under this theory. But did it give that family any accurate or
adequate representation? Evidently not. The Greenback candidate
was entitled to one vote from that family, and he did not get it;
and the Republican candidate was entitled to three ballots, and
he got only one. And then, in order to represent his daughters,
that chivalrous father had to go without any representation
himself. It is evident that the only fair way to get at public
sentiment in such a case is for each member of the family to have
one vote, and thus represent himself or herself.

Another proof that women are not virtually represented is to be
found in the laws as they actually exist. These one-sided laws
were not made because men meant to be unjust or unkind to women,
but simply because they naturally looke