The leader of the suffragettes, Mrs. Fawcett, recently established the fact that the newly formed Association has a considerably smaller number of prominent names among its members _than the organization formed two years ago_, which soon came to an inglorious end. She emphasized the fact that the two important women, who at that time still favored the antisuffrage movement,--Mrs. Louise Creighton and Mrs. Sidney Webb,--have since gone over to the suffrage advocates. On the occasion of Mrs. Fawcett's public debate with Mrs. Humphry Ward, the leader of the antisuffragists (in February, 1909), it happened that 235 of those present favored woman's suffrage and 74 were opposed. The argument against the brute force statement was treated in three excellent articles in _Votes for Women_ under the title "The Physical Force Fallacy."[37] The most influential of the English women, together with the women in the industries, the students of both sexes, the workingwomen,--in short, the intellectual and professional women are in favor of the suffragettes; and the woman's suffrage advocates have "the spiritual certainty" that moves mountains. Let no one believe that the appeals made on the streets, the parades of the women as sandwich-men, or the noisy publicity of their tactics are gladly indulged in by the women. These actions are entirely opposed to woman's nature. But the women have recognized that these tactics are necessary and they act accordingly because it is their duty. Such movements have always been successful.