Reviea of Rei'iews, 1/11106. 



History of the Month. 



545 



whether gentleman or mean \vhite — but were new 

 arrivals who came South seeking work, and finding 

 the negroes had the job, set to work to dri\-e them 

 awny by shot-guns and revolvers. 



One Thing 



that 



Might be Done. 



The Suffragettes, as it is the habit 

 to describe the active, energetic and 

 resolute band of women workers 

 who are in dead earnest about 

 securing the franchise, have been very busy last 

 month. They ha're undertaken with a will the duty 

 of enlightening 

 Mr. Asquith's 

 constituents a£ 

 to the essential 

 justice of their 

 claim, and 

 wherever they 

 have appeared 

 they have nnt 

 with such earn- 

 est support that 

 we are not with- 

 out hope Mr. 

 Asquith himself 

 may come to 

 realise that the 

 question can no 

 longer be cush- 

 ioned, but must 

 be honestly de- 

 bated and de- 

 cided in the 

 House of Com- 

 mons. Parlia- 

 ment fails in its 

 first duty to the 

 nation when it 

 allovi's itself to 

 be jockeyed out 

 of all opportu- 

 nity to debate a 

 great moral and 

 political issue 

 like this of the 

 franchise. \'o 

 one asks Mr. 

 Asquith or any- 

 body else t o 

 vote for a mea- 

 sure which he honestly brlieves would be detrimental 

 to the best interest of the State. But we do expect 

 that they will be manly enough not to be afraid to 

 stand up in their place in Parliament and justify 

 the faith that is within tliem. The essential mean- 

 ness of the tactics 111' the Evanses and people of that 

 ilk naturally irritates women, hut, as a man, it 

 simply disgusts me and makes' one ashamed to re- 

 cognise that they belong to our chivalrous sex. 

 When the Plural Voting Bill goes into committee 



Photo. ly'i One of tho Latest Portraits of General Booth. [.I--. H . Milh. 



He i« tonring: England on a g-rc:it Campaign, ami is tliorouiihh- up to ilate \>y 

 pressing tln' motor-car into lii> service. 



the claim of the women to vote ought to be fully 

 debated and decided by a division in the House., 

 Vote against it if you must, but, in the name of 

 manliness and fair play, vote! 



There seems to be a considerable 



london probabilitv that the next election 



County Council r ^u j i <^ ^ <- i 



Elections. '°"' ^"^ London County Council 



will be the chief electoral event of 



next year. The Conservatives, who have in the 



past disguised themselves as Moderates, are, it is 



reported, about to try the virtues of another alias 



and to appear 

 this time as 

 Municipal Re- 

 formers. The 

 ill-fate of the 

 Protection! s t s 

 who masquerad- 

 ed as Tariff Re- 

 formers might 

 have warn e d 

 the Moderates 

 that there are 

 limits to every- 

 thing, and that 

 those limits are 

 passed when 

 cannibals dub 

 themselves ve- 

 getarians, o r 

 when the most 

 stolid and reac- 

 tionary obstruc- 

 tives of all 

 municipal pro- 

 gress dub them- 

 selves Munici- 

 pal Reformers. 

 These eccentri- 

 cities of politi- 

 cal nomencla- 

 ture are unjim- 

 portant. What 

 is serious is that 

 there is a possi- 

 bility that the 

 Indepen dent 

 Laliour Party, 

 in the exuber- 

 anc e of its 

 youthful enthusiasm, may decide to select the 

 County Council Elections as a field-day for adver- 

 tising its own existence, and demonstrating its 

 strength — or weakness — without regard to the effect 

 which such action might have upon the Govern- 

 ment of London. It is difficult to believe that Mr. 

 Keir Hardie can contemplate such a course. The 

 London County Council has been the nursing mother 

 of Municipal Socialism. The success with which it 

 has administered the greatest city in the world on 



