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PRICE ONE PENNY.
SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY
AND
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Social-Democracy & Woman Suffrage.
Comrades,—The decision to discuss the question of WomanSuffrage at this Congress was not arrived at from any theoreticalconsiderations, or from any wish to point out the advisability ofsuch a measure. This desirability has long been acknowledgedby Social-Democrats, and by the women who work with them forthe attainment of their aims. We have been much more interestedin the tactics and in the historical events about which I am nowgoing to speak. There never was greater urgency than at thepresent time for making the question of Woman Suffrage one ofthe chief demands of our practical programme in politics. It iswell for us, therefore, to be clear that we are on the right lines,and in what conditions and in what ways we should conductthe agitation, the action, the struggle for Woman Suffrage soas to bring it before the public as a question of intense practicalactivity for all. But we should not be what we are, we shouldnot be working-class women agitators who base their demandson the ground of a Socialist demand, if we did not, when seekingon the right lines, with all our strength, for this right, at thesame time show why we base our claim for this reform, andhow we are totally separated from those who onl