We note with no small interest that the Westminster Gazette
in its leader of Wednesday last suggests that the best and easiest way of deciding whether the electors really meant to authorize their representatives to settle the question of woman suffrage would be to have a Referendum on the point. Like Mr. Asquith, it objects strongly to the Referendum in general, but, unlike him, it desires a poll of the electors in this particu- lar case. It goes on to deal with the Prime Minister's argu- ment that a Referendum on woman suffrage would be open to objection because it would only be to the male electors. The Westminster Gazette answers this conclusively, as we answered it last week, by pointing out that if the male representatives of the male electors can decide the point a portion of the male electors can do so.
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