[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR,' • ] SIR,—In your article of
last week you support Sir Joseph Compton Rickett in his suggestion that the question of women's suffrage should be submitted to a Referendum, and make it clear that those to be consulted should be the present electors. Suffragists do not consider that the men, who already have the vote, have any right to decide whether women are or are not to have it in their turn. The fact that women themselves want it is the reason that they should have it. Let me make my meaning in saying that women want the vote perfectly clear. I do not mean that the majority of women do so—upon that point we have no information—but that all organized bodies of women do. The proposal that a Referendum should be taken is absolutely futile. It would not have the least effect upon the agitation. Women are determined to have the vote, and deny the right of anyone to withhold it from them.—I am, Sir, &c,,
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