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What our wise (?) legislators spent in the South African war alone would have been enough to buy up all the slums and make houses and homes worthy of the name for our workers to live in, and the money saved in gaols, lunatic asylums, police and magistrates, &c., would be enormous. The people often sin because "the means to do ill-deeds make ill-deeds done." The women, having more to do with homes than men, and having to spend most of their time there, would make this a live question, and if there were a spare room in the homes where tired fathers might rest undisturbed by crying children they would not want to go to the public-house; children, too, are less peevish when they can play and not be in "mother's way." It is the right of the worker—a decent home. Was it not Moody who said: "The home was founded before the Church, and Britons stand more in need of homes than of churches"? One more reform I must refer to. The Opium Amendment Act of South Australia shows what good uses the women's votes have been put to. About a year ago there was a great cry all over England about the opium traffic; meetings of women were held, resolutions were unanimously carried praying Mr. John Morley to abolish the traffic; with what result—failure! The Government could not afford to lose the revenue derived from that diabolical drug. Morals of the people! what is that in comparison to money for the National Exchequer? I spoke at several of those women's meetings and foretold them if they wished the abolition of opium traffic they must fight for the women's vote, as that was the only