10 JULY 1909, Page 29

Woman Suffrage a National Danger. By Heber Hart, LL.D. (T.

Murby and Co. is. net.)—To begin with, this means universal suffrage,—i.e., about quadrupling the present electorate. It involves the decay of the race and the home. It would lead to imprudence and panic in politics. It implies readjustment of the laws. A wife must be under the same obligations to her husband, for support, legal liability, Lie., as he is now to her. These are some of the considerations on which Dr. Hart dwells. He does not doubt that many women would vote wisely. That we would all allow ; but is there not a gregarious instinct in them which means the gravest danger ?