HORACE: It must *not* take a long time!...

How the Vote Was Won

Horace Cole

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HORACE: It must not take a long time! I shan’t allow it. It shall be done at once. Well, you needn't all look so surprised. I know I’ve been against it, but I didn’t realize things. I thought only a few howling dervishes wanted the vote;

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Why shouldn’t they have a voice in the rate of wages and the hours of labour in certain industries? Aren't they working in those industries? If you had a particle of common sense or decent feeling, gentlemen –

Cicely Hamilton & Christopher St. John, How the Vote Was Won, Concord Theatricals, 1909, pp. 26-28.

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