English VI.

Question: "Resolved, That the suffrage should be extended to women."

Brief for the Affirmative.C. T. WENTWORTH and W. F. WILLIAMS.Best general references: John Stuart Mill Dissertations and Discussions III, 93. Wendell Phillips Speeches p. 11. Forum III, 131.

I. Woman Suffrage would benefit home and state, (a) by promoting moral legislation, (b) by abolishing boss rule. (c) Women could and would more thoroughly train future voters,

II. Woman Suffrage is just; taxation and representation should be coextensive.

III. We have no real evidence of the failure of Woman Suffrage, for it has not been tried long enough and widely enough.

IV. Woman Suffrage is an economic and historic development. (a) The rule of force and custom. (b) Both yield to woman's social advancement. (c) They are yielding politically also.

V. Women are now qualified to vote.

Brief for the negative.C. H. BECKWITH and E. B. BISHOP.Best general references: Francis Parkman, Woman Suffrage; J. J. Ingalls, The Sixteenth Amendment, Forum IV, 1-3; An Appeal Against Woman Suffrage, Nineteenth Century, XXV, 781-785.

I. Suffrage is not a natural right, but rests on Political expediency.

II. Woman Suffrage is not politically expedient for: (a) Women have not shown an ability to deal with political subjects. (b) They could not aid in the enforcement of the laws. (c). It involves the right to hold office. (d) Woman's sphere is at home. (e) The ma-

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