There is common-sense left in Manchester. Dr. Pamir- hurst obtained
only 6,216 votes out of the .52,000 upon the new Register, while Mr. Houldswortls, polling the full strength of his party as it now stands, received 18,188. As the votes given to Dr. Pankhurst are far less than the number of Irish electors, it is probable that very few English Radicals voted, the majority feeling, with us, that wild views are as great a disqualification in a philanthropic Red as in the haughtiest Tory. That conviction is what we want to see. There is no better representative than the man whose motive power in politics is feeling for the people, but he must have sense, and knowledge of facts, and experience enough to be aware that this planet will never become a world where all are at ease, all cultivated, and all good. If Dr. Pankhurst had been elected, every Radical candidate at the general election would have been told that universal female suffrage, the abolition of the Army, the payment of the Debt out of the land, and the confiscation of corporate property were within the accepted programme of his party. We can fight heartily for Mr. Smith, of Liverpool, though we think he occasionally dreams ; but any candidate whatever, to call forth our sympathy, must be a reasoning human being, who will admit that the truths of arithmetic are absolute, and that the Eighth Commandment is above any theory whatever. The State has a perfect right to tax its subjects twenty shillings in the pound, but if it taxes only men above six feet in height, it robs.
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