SAVE US FROM OUR FRIENDS.
[TO THE EDITOR Or TUB "SrlICTATOR.”.1 you permit me to ask if it be fair that thousands of women householders, landowners, and law-abiding citizens should be jumbled up under the leadership of such persons as Miss Billington and her friends P Yet this is your comment upon the woman suffrage question in the Spectator of June 23rd: "The chances of women obtaining the Parliamentary vote were never very bright, but what little chance there was has now vanished altogether." The Spectator has repeatedly told us of late that Churchmen should not be judged by the acts and words of extremists ; why, then, should women suffragists be judged by their extremists P We repudiate the actions of these silly and unmannerly women; all we ask is that the payment of rent should give us the Parliamentary vote, just as the payment of rates gives us the municipal vote. This seems to most of us mere justice, for our responsibilities are equal to men's ; indeed, many a woman has far more responsibility than her gardener or her coachman. Why, then, should she be denied the vote which is allowed to her serving-men P—I am, Sir, &c.,
ONE OP THE FIRST MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
We publish this protest, but cannot open our columns to a discussion of the franchise question.—ED. Spectator.]
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