26 AUGUST 1916, Page 1
Though we are not so confident as Lord Cromer in
the power of the anti-suffragists to resist the demand for the vote if it is made after the war by the women who have been doing war work, we are most strongly of opinion that such a revolution OA female suffrage eannot be allowed to reach us by a side wind. If the political prerogative of men is to perish it must perish in the light and not incidentally. Further, female suffrage ought not to become the- law of the land until it has been endorsed by a referendum. To pass such a measure haphazard, at the fag-end of a falling Parlia- ment, would be the very height of political folly.
