The woman suffrage agitation in Canton-is very interesting, and no doubt important, but we should like to know, as a matter of curiosity, who the agitators are and what their state—whether in single blessedness or connubial bliss. Let us look back a few years and recall to mind a certain attractive. young lady, Miss Teresa Billing-ton. She was one of the early English suffragettes, probably before Christabel even, and was all. that could be desired either as a lady or a suffragette. But then she got married, which was not good for the cause of woman suffrage, and later she had a baby, which was worse (but only for suffrage), and the movement knew her no more. Let the people of Canton take heed. Mr. Pethick Lawrence, husband of another famous suffragette, in more recent years is reported to have made favourable remarks on the conduct of the police in keeping his wife in gaol for varying periods, also a matter which Canton may note with—interest, if not with profit. And surely Carlyle had some experience with the vote which is not. to be neglected. At one period he desired the vote very badly, he got it ultimately, and, if we remember aright, he never thought it worth while using. He knew a good deal about human nature, so much in fact that he made very many mistakes about it and things in general, but he knew also how much the value of the mere vote could be overestimated.
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