ABSTRACT
SOME people, I daresay, will be ready to think that this is an unfortunate time for holding a Women's Suffrage meeting. During the past two or three years, questions of useful home legislation have been almost entirely at a standstill. Measures that have been longer before the public than our Bill, and have excited a more widely spread if not a deeper interest, have made little or no onward progress. Almost all efforts for the good of the people, whether by way of reform or of economy or of education, have been baffled or overpowered by the opposition, or the apathy they have encountered; and the minds of the people have been diverted from the consideration of the pressing needs of this great population, in order that they might, shall I say, attack shadows and chimeras many thousands of miles distant from our shores.
