Excerpt from Women's Suffrage and National Danger: A Plea for the Ascendency of Man<br><br>Foremost among the reasons which I am about to com bat, both in respect of the frequency with which it is urged and the importance which is attached to it, is, I take it, the proposition that it is the ownership or occupation of property which alone gives the right to vote or, in other words, that the vote is attached to the property owned or occupied, and that therefore all consideration of sex is irrelevant. Whoever has studied the speeches or writings of eminent advocates of the extension of the suffrage to women, or has argued the question in private conversation with their followers, will probably admit that this contention is very generally considered by them as the most important, or, at least, one of the most important, of their arguments.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.