PAPERSPAST

WOMANHOOD SUFFRAGE.

TO THE EDITOB. Sir— To " Are not women sufficiently represented by' their husbands and fathers?" query asks, "Where?" Wonion have busbands and fathors, but "they don't know where they'vo gone to," and what is thoir representation worth? Women have husbands and fathers in the unseen land, and does "D.D." mean these? As to "D.D.'s" second question, ask the wives and daughters of the bigamist, libertine, gambler, drunkard, and the essentially selfish for an answer. "Fair Play," the critic, says that "D.D." has not seen one view of tho case, which is, that when a Demooratic Government taxed women as well as men, they placed women in a position to demand and claim complete emancipation, and the percentage of mistakes and blunders common to young practitioners, without projudioo, because women are not only taxpayers and wealth-producers, but they aro worldproducers also, and for the well-being of tho age they need the franchise, which tho present Parliament, though it has the power, has no right to deny or withhold from women, and 'tis obviously unfair > to gather taxes from women without giving to them the adequate equivalent— the franchise. I am, &c, — — -^— — — 00 -

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