ABSTRACT
Women are often told that they are already sufficiently represented by their male relations. A man who is always under the apprehension that whatever subject is started, conversation will always come round in the end to women's suffrage. There are many kind and tender hearts among women that are pained by the suffering they see. They have long recognised it to be their duty to help and comfort the sufferer, but they have not been accustomed to look to human laws for some say all, of the causes of crime and poverty. Weare sometimes told that we cannot make people sober and moral by Act of Parliament, and in a sense this is true. But it is not difficult to degrade and demoralize by law. It is easy to give the sanction of law to what could never have that of justice, and if people do what is in accordance with the spirit of the law they are generally satisfied.
