ABSTRACT
Women ask for justice, men offer privileges; women advance reasons, men answer with their own feelings and instincts; women meet assertions with evidence in disproof, men re-assert them without attempting further proof. To those who desire the suffrage without signing petitions for it, few men can realize the pressure put upon women in all cases where their views differ from those of the masculine public. Individual men of the unenfranchised classes can rise to acquire a vote: a woman never can. And women only ask for the vote on the same conditions as those on which it is conferred upon men. With all deference to the feelings of men, it is because the evils it has produced and is producing are so deep-seated and complex, that they have escaped their notice; their very position of legal superiority, of which they are scarcely conscious, having blinded their eyes.
