women having votes." Lord Selborne, speaking at Liverpool a little earlier, said he was opposed to manhood suffrage; but if manhood suffrage were inevitable he would greatly prefer that it should include women. With such a combination of forces in Parliament the success of a Women's Suffrage amendment to the Reform Bill should be

secure.

SOM

THE WOMAN'S REVOLT IN ENGLAND AS A MORAL MOVEMENT OME of the sincerest advocates of Women's Suffrage shrink from the addition of the enormous number to the electorate which would be involved by the adoption of womanhood suffrage. There are many ways of enfranchising women which would obviate his objection. One is what is known as the "Norway" scheme. In Norway there is manhood suffrage for men and a tax-paying suffrage for women. In our own country this might be modified to household suffrage for women, including married women. This would be a practical recognition, in the eye of the law, of the value of the woman's services in the home as wife and mother. Every household depends for its wellbeing on its female as well as on its male head, and it would be in accordance with the best traditions of political and domestic life to enfranchise, as a joint householder, the woman who devotes her life to the home. Other plans have been suggested, but the "Norway" scheme is the one that evidently commends itself to Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Edward Grey. The exact form of amendment must, however, be determined by the friends of Women's Suffrage in the House of Commons. They alone can judge what will most combine all sections of suffragist members in its favor.

One word in conclusion. Women's Suffrage is not merely a political question. It is a moral and spiritual question. It seeks to lift up the womanhood, and by so doing to lift up the manhood, of the country. There are social sores and social evils which probably will never be adequately dealt with until the idea of the necessary subjection of one sex to the other is uprooted. No effort, even, was made to deal with the huge congeries of evil known as the "white slave trade" until women in the present genera

tion began to realize that every woman is degraded by what degrades her sisters, and that every man is degraded by what lowers and defiles "essential womanhood." As women approach freedom they invariably apply themselves to these world-old moral problems. No sensible suffragist maintains that women's suffrage would in itself solve them, but it would be a great step towards solution and healing, by putting into the hands of the womanhood of the land the power to deal with evils which sap the root of all that is most sacred in the relations between men and women.

WOMAN MILITANT AND HER VICTORIES

AS A CRUSADER

By LUCY STONE (Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell)

Author of "The Progress of Fifty Years," Etc; Leader of the Original Movement for Woman Suffrage

HE commencement of the last fifty years is about the beginning of that great change and improvement in the condition of women which exceeds all the gains of hundreds of years before.

Four years in advance of the last fifty, in 1833, Oberlin College, in Ohio, was founded. Its charter declared its grand object, "To give the most useful education at the least expense of health, time and money, and to extend the benefits of such education to both sexes and to all classes; and the elevation of the female character by bringing within the reach of the misjudged and neglected sex all the instructive privileges which have hitherto unreasonably distinguished the leading sex from theirs." These were the words of Father Shippen, which, if not heard in form, were heard in fact as widely as the world. The opening of Oberlin to women marked an epoch. In all outward circumstances this beginning was like the coming of the Babe of Bethlehem-in utter poverty. Its first hall was of rough slabs with the bark on still. Other departments corresponded. But a new Messiah had come. Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new born that drops into its place; And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. About this time Mary Lyon began a movement to establish Mt. Holyoke Seminary. Amherst College was near by. Its students were educated to be missionaries. They must have educated wives. It was tacitly understood and openly asserted that Mt. Holyoke Seminary was to meet this demand. But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that