ABSTRACT
It is surely the merest fair-play that a measure, which of necessity affects twice as many women as men, should be considered from the point of view of women as well as of men; yet it is not altogether surprising that this is so often unheeded by our legislators, for women seldom care to reveal the hidden depths of their dislike to this measure. Their very detestation of it makes them reticent. They hardly can bring themselves to believe that a Parliament, which is supposed to represent the national will, can ever really pass a measure from which the mass of women instinctively recoil. Their resistance has thus had too much of an' inarticulate character, while the Bill is insisted on by a pertinacious fraction with voice so loud that quiet women shrink back, the very pertinacity increasing their hesitancy to express the detestation in their hearts, till at last they are in eminent peril of becoming victims to the pertinacious fraction.
