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suffer owing to the ignorant, if well-meaning, 

 sentimentality of their own sex is lamentable in 

 the extreme ; but results of this kind must 

 necessarily arise if the business of the Empire 

 is to be conducted after the manner of women 

 and not after that of men " ; and he winds up 

 with the question, " What will be the future of 

 an Empire governed after the manner of women 

 when placed in rivalry and competition with 

 States wise enough to remain under masculine 

 guidance ? " Years ago, Tegetmeier saw that 

 the conferring of the franchise on women would 

 ultimately throw the entire government of the 

 Empire into the hands of the female sex, since 

 thej r constitute the majority of the nation. 

 Moreover, he wrote, " there is no doubt whatever 

 that the great majority of women do not want 

 to dabble in the dirty pool of politics.' ' Further, 

 they are not the breadwinners, nor the greatest 

 workers of the community : " they could not 

 fitly legislate tor the maritime interest — the 

 most important in the Kingdom, but one of 

 which they practically can have no experience. 

 Of military matters they must ever remain 

 profoundly ignorant. With the police and the 

 practical administration of the law they are 

 necessarily unacquainted. Yet, if female suffrage 

 were granted, all these matters would be removed 

 from the control of men and be placed in that 

 of women, they being in the majority." Had he 



