30 JULY 1910, Page 3

In other words, Lord Lytton and his Committee intend to

try to hold the House of Commons to what they declare is its pledged word. They will fail because the greater number of Members of the House of Commons who have expressed themselves as in favour of woman suffrage are not really in favour of it. They are in the position of the American politician who was " in favour of the cause but agin its enactment." Or to put it in another way, " he that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."