ABSTRACT
The key to the right, and consequently to all the others, is in one simple measure, that is, in the Bill for the removal of the Electoral Disabilities of Women, in one word for the admission of women householders to the Parliamentary Suffrage. A Lecture addressed to a meeting of members of Working Women's Unions at the Office of the Women's Protective and Provident League, 36, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn. In some countries he has absolute power to do what he likes with his subjects, but with people he cannot do so, for he is under the control of a Ministry, who owe their power to the consent of all the people. Even if the father is dead, the mother is not their natural guardian; he may leave the care of them to anyone he pleases, and the mother may be punished if she persists in retaining her own children.
