. Methodist Bishop Simpson was right
when he declared the vote of woman at the polls would soon
extinguish the perdition fires of intemperance. The Sturgis
women have begun the good work, a hundred and fourteen to
six! Surely, blessed are the husbands and children of such
wives and mothers.

P. P.

In _The Revolution_ of September 3, 1868, we find the following
from the Sturgis _Star_:

Last spring the ladies of Sturgis went to the polls one
hundred and twenty in number, and demonstrated the propriety
of the movement. Their votes did not count, for they could
only be cast in a separate box, and the movement was only
good in its moral effect. But at the school meeting the
ladies have an equal right to vote with the men. Whatever
qualifications a man must possess to exercise privileges in
that meeting, any woman possessing like qualifications can
exercise like privileges there. To substantiate this, it is
only necessary to read the school law. Section 145 of the
Primary School law: "The words 'qualified voter' shall be
taken and construed to mean and include _all taxable
persons_ residing in the district of the age of twenty-one
years, and who have resided therein three months next
preceding the time of voting."

Ex-State Superintendent John M. Gregory's opinion of that
is, that "under this section (145) all persons liable to be
taxed in the district, and twenty-one years of age, and
having resided three months in the district, without
distinction of sex, color, or nationality, may vote in the
district meetings." In districts where they elect only a
director, assessor and moderator, the women can vote on all
questions except the election of officers. In graded
districts they can vote on all questions, election of
trustees included. Men having no taxable property, but who
vote at town meetings and general elections, can only vote
for trustees at a school meeting. Any woman, then, having a
watch, cow, buggy, or personal property of any kind, subject
to tax, or who has real estate in her own name, or jointly