The Women's Suffrage movement has been actively urged during the
last week, and on Saturday last a public meeting was held at St. George's Hall, under the presidency of Mr. George Dixon, M.P., for the purposes of the movement. Mr. Dixon himself went the whole length of the movement, as he declared that he saw no objection to electing women to Parliament, nor,. of course, to giving the suffrage, on fitting conditions, to married women no less than to spinsters and widows,—for whom alone the agitators are now asking it. But Mrs. Fawcett and even Miss Becker were more prudent. They declared that they only wanted what they were asking for,—at least, if it should turn out that women's special wrongs were removed in consequence of getting this in- stalment of their electoral rights. But Mrs. Fawcett clearly saw that logic was against her, and admitted that it was only in deference to. the (rather unreasonable) preference of the country for putting poli- tical work on the single women that she limited her demand as she did. But the most curious feature of the meeting was the indig- nation poured out on Mr. Smollett for his coarse speech against Women's Rights. Well, it was a coarse speech, no doubt, but Mr. Smollett is as coarse with men as he is with women, and women ought to see that if they want to mix in the fights of ordi- nary politicians, they should not look for the specifically delicate treatment which they may fairly expect simply as women. The truth is, they want to have all the privileges of their sex, and none- of its disqualifications.
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