" A LARGER HEAVEN " 403 



Women's Suffrage lies in one of the remarkably 

 few indiscretions among laws made hy men for 

 men — Woman's compulsory contribution of money 

 towards the support of the State, because it is a 

 definite acknowledgment of Woman's direct relation 

 to money, which, always the chief factor, has become, 

 through the power of laws tainted with the self- 

 interest of the wealth-possessed sex, the ruling force 

 of civilization. The solid argument which delays 

 equal suffrage is the fact that man has the full 

 force of wealth on his side of the scale. 



The colossal fortunes of a handful of American 

 women arrived at a crisis to bestow a new lease of 

 life upon the superb condition of our English life, 

 which was just then threatened with decay, if not 

 extinction ; but the sum of the private fortune 

 of every wealthy woman in our land would hardly 

 make any impression towards bringing the weight 

 of wealth to that poise which would mark the 

 control of the law of equity between the sexes. To 

 bring about this condition woman must make 

 wealth ; she cannot afford to ignore its force, and 

 only by means of combination and co-operation 

 can she hope to control it. The opportunities for 

 wealth-making are greater than they have ever been 

 before ; from every colony they beckon to the 

 woman capitalist as well as the woman labourer, 

 and in the Colonies a combination of capital and 

 labour is a wealth-compelling power. 



The faithful chronicle of one's own difficulties 

 may at first thought appear but a poor foundation 

 for one's hope and firm belief that agriculture 

 vdll prove to be the high-road and foundation of 

 wealth and independence for Woman, but the 



