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 qualification age should be raised from twenty-one years to twenty-five, presumably for both sexes. By an overwhelming majority, the members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union based the claims of women for enfranchisement on the ground that they were human beings, and therefore worthy of self-government in a self-governing colony. As the heirs and successors of those praying women who counted the interests of property as nothing, compared with the claims of humanity, they could have done no other.