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 of Great Britain—and a great unrest which will never quieten until their demand is granted. In young countries women are in greater demand, their opinions are sought after because the country begins with the homes, and wherever the women's help has been sought, the results have proved that the natural housekeeper can become the national housekeeper, as nation-keeping is only house-keeping on a larger scale. The Isle of Man enfranchised her women in 1884, and those M.P.'s who now predict most terrible disaster to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales if women should be enfranchised forget to look to that peaceful little island so near for an example.

New Zealand enfranchised her women, and in 1893 they used their votes for the first time. The result of the first Parliament elected by women and men was the introduction of old age pensions; every man over the age of sixty-five was entitled to seven shillings a week; every woman over sixty-five was entitled to seven shillings a week. That is a notable fact that where men and women are political equals they are treated equally. So well did the old age pensions work that less than two years ago they were raised to ten shillings a week the man, and ten shillings a week the woman. I have visited your workhouses, and have read about your poor rates, and have seen your starving men and women, and pinched, pale-faced children. I have seen your sweated women workers, have visited the slums in which they exist and sew and sleep; I have seen that still worse great army of