In truth, a melancholy suffragette, reviewing the whole situation, and
yet inclined as a Radical to find excuses for the majority which has so greatly deceived her, might make the metaphysical apology for that deception which Donne made in his poem to his unfaithful mistress. He tells her that he really has no right to blame her for not keeping her word :— " For having purposed change and falsehood, you Could find no way but falsehood to be true."
That is the situation in a nutshell. Anti-suffragists as we are, we are not surprised at the indignation of the supporters of Lord Lytton's Bill. They have been shamefully used by their own friends. In this great question what is wanted is honest thinking, honest speaking, and honest action. In the future people will, we trust, be forced to say what they mean and mean what they say on the suffrage question.
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