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It will therefore be a matter of interest
to you to learn that as far as the
franchise has been extended among us
it has proved beneficial. Not only has
it not produced any of the predicted
evils but it has been invariably
followed by good results.

In half our States women have
some form or other of school Suffrage, and
this is exercised to the great benefit of the
Schools and with the immediate result of
increasing the interest which men take
in these too-much neglected elections. To give
but one instance of resulting benefit: In
Michigan women received school suffrage
by a State law from which Chartered
cities were exempt and these had to
give the franchise to women by amending their
Charters. When a bill was before the
legislature to amend the charter of Detroit,
the largest city in Michigan, a member
from Detroit opposed the measure on
the ground that the School election was
conducted in the liquor saloons. However the
amendment was passed when immediately this
same member proposed another amendment to prohibit
holding these elections in saloons and this
beneficent change was made.

When women became municipal
voters in the State of Kansas a law was
passed prohibiting electioneering within
fifty feet of the polls in order to ensure
orderly voting.