'Reason? Why, she's a woman!'
'Haw! haw!'
The speaker had never paused an instant, but—it began to be clear that she heard any interruption it suited her to hear.
'Some one asking, at this time of day, why women want the vote? Why, for exactly the same reason that you men do. Because, not having any voice in public affairs, our interests are neglected; and since woman's interests are man's, all humanity suffers. We want the vote, because taxation without representation is tyranny; because the laws as they stand bear hardly on women; and because those unfair, man-made laws will never be altered till women have a share in electing the men who control legislation.'
'Yer ought ter leave politics to us——'
'We can't leave politics to the men, because politics have come into the home, and if the higher interests of the home are to be served, women must come into politics.'
'That's a bad argument!'
'Wot I always say is——'
'Can't change nature. Nature says——'
'Let 'er st'y at 'ome and mind 'er business!'