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Beyond the City

CHAPTER V
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I hold considerable property, and I pay more in imperial taxes than that man spends in whisky, which is saying a great deal, and yet I have no more direct influence upon the disposal of the money which I pay than that fly which creeps along the wall.

Is that right?
Is it fair ?" The Admiral moved uneasily in his chair.

"Yours is an exceptional case," said he.
"But no woman has a voice.

Consider that the women are a majority in the nation.

Yet if there was a question of legislation upon which all women were agreed upon one side and all the men upon the other, it would appear that the matter was settled unanimously when more than half the population were opposed to it.


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