Show U u Republics Versus Voman Mrs Kate T Woolaey an American lady who has lived abroad for sometime t some-time and who has written a volume entitled Republics versus Woman unburdens un-burdens her mind in the August number of the North American Review on the t subject of Womans Inferior Position in a Republic Mrs Woolsey complains 1 that the sort of government for which the American Constitution provides Is a I monstrous regimen of mena government of men 1f men for men and that the honors and dignities enjoyed by women in monarchies arc absolutely denied i to them in a republic which entirely withholds recognition from woman The I first lady In the land in the < United States Is politically Inferior to the most it Ignorant voter of whatever race or clnss Victoria was politically superior to any of the millions of men In her dominions Even in Russia woman holds amore 4 a-more favorable position than in the United States II About ten years ago 1 met a Russian lady of preeminent rank and great i wealth who congratulated me upon being a citizen of a republic As my allegiance r alle-giance to my sex IB greater than it Is to any theory ever established by men I replied I could not see that being a citizen of a republic was a I matter for any k lj j woman to be congratulated upon She was amazed at this and asked me for I 1 an explanation whereupon I asserted that I was confident that our sex had I fl not fared so badly either politically or legally at the hands of the Russian u Government as at the hands of the United States Republic Each of us wagered t wa-gered that the other was wrong and to settle the question we agreed to gather I F certain data concerning women In our respective countries We found that 4 while In America millions of wives had no individual control over their property I t prop-erty for about two centuries every wife In Russia had been the legal mistress j of her own fortune that while every woman householder In Russia had had It the right to vote on all municipal matters for several centuries millions of women I wo-men In j the American Republic had no such rJgMn that 9000 wives were deserted by husbands In the Republic to 500 In Russia that thousands of tiny girls were employed In factories In the Republic while no little girls can be legally employed t 1 em-ployed by Russian fetorfes and that more women work in the fields of the Re I public than In tHe tjeldn ot Russia c i1 I |