Let every woman who can influence an elector see that he seizes his vote as a sledgehammer. Mary was guided by a strong set of values based on Christian principles and she lived and practised her beliefs. It is likely that Mary Lee was a regular church goer, possibly attending the Primitive Methodist Church in nearby Wellington Square, in North Adelaide. In those days most people did attend church or chapel regularly and often went to hear particular preachers deliver their sermons. From her letters to the newspapers and her articles on Women s Suffrage we see that she was well educated and widely read, and if you read her letters, speeches and articles aloud you ll hear there the echoes of the powerful and charismatic speaker that she must have been.
Fair play is a jewel.
I think I am right in saying that there is no jewel which Britishers as a whole prize more dearly, and yet, while men contend for it themselves, they leave their women out. They rise or sink together, dwarfed or god-like, bond or free. You place her beside the felon, outside the pale of citizenship. She has no vote. You tax her to support a Government which she has no voice in choosing or rejecting.