ABSTRACT
MR Samuel Smith, MP for Flintshire, has given notice of his intention to move the rejection of Sir Albert Rollit's Women's Suffrage Bill, which is down for second reading on 27 April. It seems, therefore, not inopportune to consider some of the objections urged by Mr Smith against women's suffrage, which were printed and widely circulated among Members of Parliament and the public during last session. All that can be with certainty predicted is perhaps that Parliaments in the future, like Parliaments in the past, will be more influenced by practical considerations than by any desire to attain exact logical consistency. There is a very curious inconsistency in Mr S. Smith's position in regard to manhood suffrage. He says that he is opposed to it; that he wishes to prevent it; that he believes household suffrage to be a sounder basis for Government than manhood suffrage.
