III. Woman's influence must be that exercised in her family by her sympathy and refinement. These qualities would be changed if she mingled in politics.- Bushnell, Woman's Suffrage, p. 20.

IV. (a) Woman does not need the ballot to protect her rights.- Bushnell, Woman's Suffrage, p. 29. (b) Suffrage should be conferred only on those who can enforce its decrees.- Forum IV, 1-15.

V. Woman suffrage is inexpedient. (a) The great majority of women do not desire suffrage. (b) The class of women who would make use of it would, as a rule, belong to the ignorant and degraded classes in large cities.- New Englander, 1884, p. 206-7. (c) The influence of the Roman Catholic Church would be vastly increased.- Forum IV, 14-15. (d) It would add 2,300,000 illiterate and ill-qualified voters to the 1,900,000 already existing.

VI. 1. The theory that all women or majority of women would vote for the purification of politics and society has been contradicted by actual experience in Utah.- Forum IV, 1-15. 2. Women suffragists have an exaggerated idea of the power of the ballot and legislation to remedy moral and social evils- New Englander, 1884, p. 211.

VII. Right to vote implies right to hold office.

VIII. The U. S. Supreme Court has decided that the right of suffrage is not necessarily one of the privileges of a citizen.- Forum II, 351.