The November number of the Anti-Suffrage Review—the organ of the
Women's National Anti-Suffrage League— publishes some remarkable results of a canvass of women municipal electors. The League has asked the women electors in several constituencies to say by postcard whether they do or do not desire the Parliamentary vote. The appeal it will be seen, is to the very class in whose interest the Con- ciliation Bill is framed. We cannot go fully into the figures, but may say that of those who have so far returned answers 9,845 are opposed to woman suffrage, and only 2,520 are in favour of it. This is surely a very significant fact. We ought to add that in a letter which we publish else- where Lady Chance is able to cite an exactly contrary result from a canvass of women at Godalming. We do not dispute the possibility that there are several places in which there is a majority of women for woman suffrage. Lady Chance has evidently discovered one of these. But that would not affect the main result. If any other comment on Lady Chance's figures were necessary, we would say that a personal canvass is much more likely than a canvass by postcard to produce the results desired by the canvasser. We think of the American who won his bet that he would induce a certain percentage of sane persons to sign a paper recommending their own execution.
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