But we fear that all these indications will be lost
upon the more violent women. And we are bound to say that the past treatment of the suffrage question by the supporters of the Government has naturally disposed women suffragists to believe that they are always being hoodwinked and tricked. Our readers will understand that our leading article on the woman suffrage amendments was written before the Speaker made his statement. But the sense of all we have there said holds good in the changed circumstances. Much the best thing that the House can do, we repeat, is to end the wretched policy of leading women on to hope for what in the end a majority of the House will not agree upon granting to them. The worst possible course now would be to accept Sir Edward Grey's amendment, which admits the principle of woman suffrage, for the subsequent or consequent collapse of the Bill would provoke the passions of the violent women to desperation. We earnestly hope that the House will therefore choose the best way out of a sorry mess by rejecting Sir Edward Grey's amendment.
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