".] "Women's Disabilities" Bill 151

Another member will denounce the measure in eloquent accents because it proposes only to enfranchise women householders. As a ., rough and ready test," the property qualification works well for men, but women proprietors may be, he says, the least endowed of their sex. A man may be illiterate, drunk or incapable, and yet vote so long as he pays his rates, but a woman voter should be refined, educated, and unexceptionable in conduct. At the same time he will predIct that the Bill means something quito different from what the lawyers who drew it up thought it meant, and that unknown possibilities of "domestic fury and fierce civil strife" menace us in the future.