The publication of this letter gives us an opportunity once
more to make our own view on the matter clear. In the first place, we desire to express our entire agreement with the signs tones to the letter when they say that the question of Woman Suffrage cannot be decided by the present Parliament, but only by one chosen by voters who have had the problem directly before them, or else by means of the Referendum. Personally we should prefer so vast a change to be first passed by Parliament and then submitted to the electorate as a whole for their assent or dis- approval. On the merits we are now as before against the eaten- slim of the suffrage' to women. We should therefor* feel no slight relief if we learnt that the majority of women no longer asked for the franchise, but were content to exercise their influence indirectly rather than• directly;--for surely no one can now doubt the enormous indirect influence which is wielded by women.
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