To a crowded meeting of women in the Queen's Hall,
London, on Monday Mr. Lloyd George professed himself a believer in Women's Suffrage for not less than twenty years. Now nearly seven millions of women have the vote, having won it in the war, beyond cavil or question, as munition workers, as food producers, and as workers behind the lines, besides bearing their share of its tortures and horrors of mind.. Women by their votes would and must make war impossible. They must demand of the Peace Conference justice, stern justice, and the abolition of conscript armies. They must demand the release of industrial men and women from com- pulsory housing in "dungeons of squalor." The war had "burst open the doors of opportunity for women," and they must demand equality in all things, in education, and in payment for their work. Mr. Lloyd George gave his pledge that Germans must leave this country. Women must not be afraid in the polling-booth, as he had been when first he voted. The Prime Minister was often inter- rupted, in a manner so senseless as to suggest that many women have still much to learn about the courtesies of public meetings.
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