The effort to make them so is much more likely to make them unequal.

One only comes to his highest power by following unconsciously and joyfully his own nature.
We run the risk of destroying the capacity for equality when we attempt to make one human being like another human being.
The theory that the class of free women considered here would be fired to unselfish interest in uncared-for youth if they were included in the electorate of the nation is hardly sustainable.

The ballot has not prevented the growth of a similar class of men.

Something more biting than a new tool is needed to arouse men and women who are absorbed in self--some poignant experience which thrusts upon their indolent minds and into their restricted visions the actualities of life.
It should be said, however, that the recent agitation for the ballot has served as such an experience for a good many women, particularly in the East.

Perhaps for the first time they have heard from the suffrage platform of the "little mother," the factory child, the girl living on $6 a week.