ABSTRACT

The Liberal Association seem to care so little for Women's Suffrage. This is said to be because they think women will be Conservatives. But how can the Liberals expect women to be other than Conservatives so long as the Liberals are Conservatives towards them. The Spectator, Henry Holbeach and other authorities, think they have discovered a philosophical objection to Women's Suffrage. They say it is dangerous to dissociate physical force and political power. Mr Bouverie and Mr James represent the Parliamentary objections to Women's Suffrage. There can be only two grounds on which men refuse the Suffrage to women duly qualified to receive it, either because women have no souls, or because men are infallible. Men will not allow infallibility to the Pope; therefore they cannot consider themselves infallible. It has been said in old times that women had no souls.