LIBERAL WOMEN.
[To Tag EDITOR OF THE "SP ICCIPATOR."1 SIR,—As a Liberal woman, I should like to enter an emphatic protest against the claim put forward by the Women's Liberal Federation last Saturday afternoon in the Albert Hall to speak " on behalf of the Liberal women of England, Wales, and Scotland." I very specially contend that the majority of Liberal women belong to no political society whatever; and that this being the case, the Women's Liberal Federation is in no way entitled to speak for all. Being an ardent, though obscure, member of the Women's Anti- Suffrage League in no way disqualifies me from being at the same time an ardent Liberal; and I have found in our rapidly growing ranks a large number of keen supporters of the present Government. This fact would not, however, justify a claim on our part to speak " on behalf of the Liberal women of England, Wales, and Scotland," supposing our numbers to be already, as they are rapidly becoming, equal to those of the
;Liberal woman suffragists attached to a society. Knowing many cases of women, Liberal, desiring no vote, yet refusing through timidity to join the Anti-Suffrage League, I have yet to meet the suffragist, Liberal or otherwise, who is too modest to come forward or to join a society.—I am, Sir, &c., A. M. G.
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