ABSTRACT
The motherhood of women, either actual or potential, is one of those great facts of everyday life which we must never lose sight of. To women as mothers, is given the charge of the home and the care of children. Women are, therefore, by nature as well as by occupation and training, more accustomed than men to concentrate their minds on the home and domestic side of things. But this difference between men and women, instead of being a reason against their enfranchisement, we want the home and the domestic side of things to count for more in politics and in the administration of public affairs than they do at present. Anything which threatens the purity and stability of the home threatens the very life-blood of the country; if the homes of the nation are pure, a nation has nothing to fear; but if the contrary of all these things can be said, the nation is rotten at the core, and its down fall is only a question of time.
