Download or read book The Ladies' Battle (Classic Reprint) written by Molly Elliot Seawell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ladies' Battle The absence of a Ways and Means Com mittee in the United States Senate. But to persons versed in government, the mere men tion of the absence of a Ways and Means Committee in the United States Senate sug gests the answer. The ordinary voter may not understand these things; but suiiragists, proposing a great, fundamental change in government, a change greater perhaps, than they really contemplate, ought to understand such points, which are among the alphabet of representative government. To attempt enormous governmental changes without knowing this alphabet is like trying to work the integral and differential calculus without mastering the ground-rules of arithmetic. One of the strangest features of the wo man su rage movement is that suffrage is treated throughout, not as a means, but as an end. In suffragist speeches and writings, no mention is made of what women would do, if they had a vote, beyond certain philan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."