Mr. Speaker and members of the Honourable House of Assembly, the Women's Suffrage Movement speaks today on behalf of over fifty-four thousand women; more than one half of the total adult population of our islands.

The women of The Bahamas have been awakened to their responsibilities and duties as citizens for many generations, and in the last thirty or thirty-five years women have vigorously carried out their duties and responsibilities in a manner comparable to those performed by the women of any highly civilized country.

True, we have not been violent agitators because we have accepted the traditional theory that civic and political responsibilities were ably carried out by our men...