ABSTRACT
Many people are unable to conceive that women can care about voting. That some women do care, has been proved by the petitions presented to Parliament. Among instances of hardship traceable directly to exclusion from the franchise and to no other cause, may be mentioned the unwillingness of landlords to accept women as tenants. The case of women farmers is stronger, but not much stronger, than that of women who, as heads of a business or a household, fulfil the duties of a man in the same position. These farmer-women and businesswomen have honest, sensible minds and much practical experience, but they do not bring their good sense to bear upon public affairs, because they think it is men's business, not theirs, to look after such things. It is this belief - so narrowing and deadening in its influence - that the exercise of the franchise would tend to dissipate.
