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APPENDIX

Mr. I. Zangwill, the famous novelist, has taken a prominent part in the suffrage movement. He has kindly consented to the reproduction here of his two recent speeches on the subject as a tribute of literature to the cause of woman.

ONE AND ONE ARE TWO^[1]

THE proposition that we are here to maintain is so simple, so clear, that when one is called upon to justify it, one scarcely knows what to say. The fact is, it is not our business to justify it; the onus of proof lies on the other side. How do they justify their monstrous proposition that one half of the human race shall have no political rights?

When Wilberforce started his campaign against slavery, it was scarcely Wilberforce's business to defend the proposition that no man has the right to make a chattel of another. The burden of proof lay on the slave-holder. How dared he violate elemental human rights? We, too, appear here not as defendants but as plaintiffs; not to beg and protest, but to demand and denounce. We accuse! We accuse the opposition of barbarism and injustice. We call upon Parliament to redress this historic wrong.

1. Being a verbatim report of the speech delivered at Exeter Hall, on February 9th, at the Demonstration of Women's Suffrage Societies.

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