ABSTRACT
A large and most important department of human life is dependent upon the hearty and voluntary concurrence of the female with Nature’s scheme. The female franchise clause of the Representation of the People’s Act of 1918 certainly levelled a serious blow at all those elements which tend to counterbalance the emotionalism of modern politics. But if the franchise is to be extended to 4,000,000 girls between twenty-one and twenty-five, then the intellectually detached and rationally minded elements in the population will be wiped out, and democratic control, at least in England, will commit suicide by becoming utterly irresponsible and ridiculous. To suppose that the handful who really want it represent the majority of girls of twenty-one is to allow oneself to be hoodwinked by a mere disguise, a sartorial trick. It is, however, much more serious than that in its consequences.
