Mrs.
Taylor and Mrs.Bright felt that, as married women were the greatest sufferers under the law, they should be the first rather than the last to be enfranchised.

The others, led by Miss Becker, claimed that it was good policy to make the demand for "spinsters and widows," and thus exclude the "family unit" and "man's headship" from the discussion; and yet these were the very points on which the objections were invariably based.

They claimed that, if "spinsters and widows" were enfranchised, they would be an added power to secure to married women their rights.
But the history of the past gives us no such assurance.

It is not certain that women would be more just than men, and a small privileged class of aristocrats have long governed their fellow-countrymen.

The fact that the spinsters in the movement advocated such a bill, shows that they were not to be trusted in extending it.