Women demand our immediate enfranchisement on the same terms as men because we have, by long and painful experience, proved the absolute impossibility of securing any further redress of the many legal wrongs from which we still suffer, and because we fully realise the great danger of further careless, mischievous, and unjust legislation, greatly imperilling the well-being of women. In July 1911, Frances Balfour gave a talk on women's suffrage at Coombe House, East Grinstead. The speech was reported in the local newspaper, The East Grinstead Observer . Lady Frances Balfour gave a talk on Women's Suffrage. Women, because they lost their husbands and sons.
Rebellion is the necessary result of injustice.
It may not always achieve its purpose, or be intended to do so, but a conviction of injustice endured must precede articulate rebellion. For these feelings of revolt there was little outlet in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Women whose work was chiefly confined to private and domestic channels were honeycombed with unrest, vague, spasmodic, and entirely unorganised. They turned their attention to the winning of the parliamentary vote.