tricts, they must also share the privileges. Gentlemen,
I hope I have your sympathy with the ideas practiced in my
country for our women.

Mrs. Catt said of her next speaker: "It is eminently proper that a
woman of Sweden should address you, where women have voted longer than
anywhere else in the world."

Mrs. Emmy Evald. I stand before this legislative power of America
representing a country where women have voted since the 18th
century, sanctioned in 1736 by the King. The men gave suffrage to
the women without their requesting it, because they believed that
taxation without representation is tyranny. The taxpayer's vote
is irrespective of sex. Women vote for every office for which
their brothers do and on the same terms, except for the first
chamber of the Riksdag. They have the Municipal and School
suffrage, votes for the provincial representatives and thus
indirectly for members of the House of Lords.

Women are admitted to the postal service on equal salaries with
men. In the railway service, which is controlled by the
Government, women have ever since 1860 been employed in the
controlling office and ticket department and in the telegraph and
telephone service, which are owned by the Government. In 1809
women were given the rights of inheritance and in the same year
equal matrimonial rights. The colleges and universities are open
to them and they receive degrees the same as men. All professions
are open except the clerical. Women teachers are pensioned
equally with men. Tax paying women have voted in church matters
since 1736. Every woman is taxed in the Lutheran Church in
America but has no vote and the women blame the Americans because
the clergy educated here imbibed the false spirit of liberty and
justice.

You can not trust the ballot into the hands of women teachers in
the public schools but you give it to men who can not read or
write. You can not trust the ballot to women who are controlling
millions of money and helping support the country but you give it
to loafers and vagabonds who know nothing, have nothing and
represent nothing. You can not trust the ballot in the hands of
women who are the wives and daughters of your heroes but you give
it to those who are willing to sell it for a glass of beer and
you trust it in the hands