question, and the suffragist could no longer give out that there has
been committed to her from on High a mission to draw water for
man-kind out of the wells of salvation.

Lastly, we have to reflect in connection with the female legislative
reformer that to go about proposing to reform the laws means to
abandon that special field of usefulness which lies open to woman in
alleviating misery and redressing those hard cases which will, under
all laws and regulations of human manufacture and under all social
dispositions, inevitably occur. Now when a woman leaves a social task
which is commensurate with her abilities, and which asks from her
personal effort and self-sacrifice, for a task which is quite beyond
her abilities, but which, she thinks, will bring her personal kudos,
shall we impute it to her for righteousness?


V

ULTERIOR ENDS WHICH THE WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT HAS IN VIEW

We have now sufficiently considered the suffragist's humanitarian
schemes, and we may lead up to the consideration of her further
projects by contrasting woman's suffrage as it presents itself under
colonial conditions--_i.e._ woman's suffrage without the female
legislative reformer and the feminist--with the woman suffrage which
is being agitated for in England--_i.e._ woman suffrage with the
female legislative reformer and the feminist.

In the colonies and undeveloped countries generally where women are in
a minority, and where owing to the fact that practically all have an