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I Thought I Had Been A Suffragist Before I Became A Poor Law Guardian, But Now I Began To Think About The Vote In Women's Hands Not Only As A Right But As A Desperate Necessity.

How Different The Reasoning Is That Men Adopt When They Are Discussing The Cases Of Men And Those Of Women.

You Must Make Women Count As Much As Men; You Must Have An Equal Standard Of Morals; And The Only Way To Enforce That Is Through Giving Women Political Power So That You Can Get That Equal Moral Standard Registered In The Laws Of The Country. It Is The Only Way.

Governments Have Always Tried To Crush Reform Movements, To Destroy Ideas, To Kill The Thing That Cannot Die. Without Regard To History, Which Shows That No Government Have Ever Succeeded In Doing This, They Go On Trying In The Old, Senseless Way.

Justice And Judgment Lie Often A World Apart.