ABSTRACT
Mrs. Chapman has already said that the possession by women of these votes meets with her entire approval; she cannot, therefore, have found any evidence to prove that the exercise of them has produced injurious efft~cts upon those especially femimne qualities which she thinks would be endangered if women took a direct part in political affairs. But I think that she must now grant me that they have already taken this direct part without any pemicious·result, and I trust that by taking this fact into consideration, she may be enabled to face the future acquisition by them of the Parliamentary franchise with less gloomy apprehension.
