1. Nor are they man's, unless he is a professional politician. He has business of his own, which he does not neglect, for the sake of voting, more than a woman would. 2. But many do, and others would but for fear of being ill thought of. We are not to suppose that leading questions put to ladies elicit their real sentiments. None are so well schooled as women in making a virtue of necessity. 3. Does man apply this argument to rich men and others with influence? 4. You have great power, but it is under the worst conditions, for it is indirect, and therefore irresponsible. And he would have you work by a manly exchange of opinions, and not by cajolery. There is a feeling which men have, but are ashamed to express--this: A woman has no right to care about anything but how she may be the most useful and devoted servant of some man. Mr. Mill professed such indignation at this idea that he would not argue about it. In the old days woman and man lived apart--that is, the wife was a plaything or an upper servant. His friends were men. This is changed. The women of the family are the man's habitual society. The wife is his chief associate, most confidential friend, most trusted counsellor. Then, should a man wish that such a companion should be studiously kept inferior to himself, and taught ignorance or indifference about the subjects among which his highest duties are cast? The time has come when, if women are not raised to the level of men, men will be pulled down to theirs. [Footnote 25: May 20, 1867.] As to women being sufficiently protected, he would like a return of the number of women annually beaten or kicked, or trodden to death by their male protectors--of the cases when the dastardly criminal did not get off altogether--of the cases in which such brutes received lighter sentences than are awarded for trifling thefts. Old educational endowments were for boys and girls alike. The girls have been shut out, as at Christ's Hospital, where there are 1,100 boys and 26 girls. The Doctors shut out the ladies. The painters do the same, excluding them from the associateship of the Academy, because they were distinguishing themselves too much. A husband can tear away every shilling of his wife's and spend it in debauchery, and even then, if she struggles and saves, he can pounce on her earnings, unless she is judicially separated. Your Champion, Ladies, wound up with an earnest assurance that when the time should come, as come it would, for acceding to his motion, we should never repent of the concession. And _Punch_ is sure that whether you want votes or not, you will say that the cheers Mr. Mill gained were well earned. Mr. E. K. Karslake thought Mr. Mill confounded the distinction between man and woman. Mr. Denman supported him, but thought the Bill already conferred the suffrage.