The second parallel case which we have to consider presents a much
simpler analogy. Consideration will show that the position occupied in
the State by the woman who has inherited money is analogous to that
occupied in a firm by a sleeping partner who stands in the shoes of a
deceased working partner, and who has only a small amount of capital
in the business. Now, if such a partner were to claim any financial
control, and were to make trouble about paying his _pro rata_
establishment charges, he would be very sharply called to order. And
he would never dream of appealing to Justice by breaking windows,
going to gaol, and undertaking a hunger strike.

Coming back from the particular to the general, and from the logical
to the moral aspect of woman's claim to control the finances of the
State on the ground that she is a tax-payer, it will suffice to point
out that this claim is on a par with the claim to increased political
power and completer control over the finances of the State which is
put forward by a class of male voters who are already paying much less
than their _pro rata_ share of the upkeep of the State.

In each case it is a question of trying to get control of other
people's money. And in the case of woman it is of "trying on" in
connexion with her public partnership with man that principle of
domestic partnership, "All yours is mine, and all mine's my own."

Next to the plea of justice, the plea which is advanced most
insistently by the woman who is contending for a vote is the plea of
liberty.

We have here, again, a word which is a valuable asset to woman
suffrage both in the respect that it brings moral pressure to bear,