opportunity of marrying, there are not for woman any difficult
economic and physiological conditions, there is no woman's question;
and by consequence no female legislative reformer or feminist. The
woman voter follows, as the opportunist politicians who enfranchised
her intended, the lead of her men-folk--serving only a pawn in the
game of politics. Under such conditions woman's suffrage kleaves
things as they are, except only that it undermines the logical
foundations of the law, and still further debases the standard of
public efficiency and public morality.

In countries, such as England, where an excess female population [1]
has made economic difficulties for woman, and where the severe sexual
restrictions, which here obtains, have bred in her sex-hostility, the
suffrage movement has as its avowed ulterior object the abrogation of
all distinctions which depend upon sex; and the achievement of the
economic independence of woman.

[1] In England and Wales there are, in a population of 8,000,000 women
between the ages of twenty and fifty, 3,000,000 unmarried women.

To secure this economic independence every post, occupation, and
Government service is to be thrown open to woman; she is to receive
everywhere the same wages as man; male and female are to work side by
side; and they are indiscriminately to be put in command the one over
the other. Furthermore, legal rights are to be secured to the wife over
her husband's property and earnings. The programme is, in fact, to give
to woman an economic independence out of the earnings and taxes of man.

Nor does feminist ambition stop short here. It demands that women
shall be included in every advisory committee, every governing board,