The growing political consciousness of the women electors and their expectation of getting something tangible as a result of the many promises made by candidates will always give a bias to the chances of a new man. "He hasn't done nothing, I'm not going to vote for him again," is a common phrase in a woman's mouth. Most of the Labour candidates who have been elected during the past three years at by-elections owed a large part of their success to the votes of Women."
One of the reasons.for their defeat at the General Election was the opinion of the women that their great promises had not been fulfilled. It is interesting to speculate on what form feminine resentment will manifest -itself when it ulti-\matey realizes how little all election promises are worth.
When the Conservative Party boldly claims in its press to have an overwhelming mandate for its policy, it is well to remember that its 346 members were returned to Parliament by 5,381,850 votes, and that 4,225,823 votes were given to Labour. There is little doubt that if the present rate of advance is maintained Labour will be ihe strongest party in the next Parliament. Tt has better debaters and more educated, adroit, and clever speakers than it ever had before. It will be well if. they remember that the workers have sent them there not as enemies of their country, but as architects of a better and happier England, where honest labour shall have a fairer share in the wealth it produces, and ex-soldiers shall not beg their living from door to door in penury and want.
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