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 sweating entirely out, as they have done in New Zealand and Australia, than to pay a man's travelling and other expenses, besides time and delay through red-tapeism after his return, and then perhaps nothing will be done. It is nearly one year since that awful "Sweating Exhibition" was opened in London—what practical results have we? The women are still working nineteen hours for 1s. Shirts are still being made for 7½d. per dozen. The women are suffering whilst our wise (?) legislators are talking. How utterly incompetent this Democratic Government is to bring about a few democratic measures!

I think the above will clearly show there is nothing to be feared by giving women the vote. Have women not always been from the cradle to the grave the best friends men had? Then what have they to fear? Do they think women will combine in one great Party to make men suffer? I have heard it said that women being in the majority by three-quarters of a million would be able to overrule the men. I think this brilliant idea was mentioned by our bitter opponent, Mr. Cremer, in the House. The injustice done to the majority of adults by giving them no representation at all never seems to have occurred to him. It would be unjust to allow 750,000 more women than men to vote, but evidently, from his standpoint, it is no injustice to withhold the vote from all women! He is a member of that great Democratic Party now sitting at Westminster, and an advocate for Peace and Arbitration, but has not yet learned the golden rule laid down by the Nazarene, and the principle on which Peace with Justice