Sir Almroth Wright's letter to the Times on the Suffrage
question has caused, as it was bound to do, a great deal of controversy. Though, as we observed last week, we hold that the letter was an important one and deserving of close attention, and though we agree heartily with the two passages we quoted, we are glad to see that disputable or even mistaken charges and inferences in the letter have been freely criticised in the columns of the Times, among the critics being several members of the medical profession. We cannot help being partly pained and partly amused by the frenzy with which Sir Almroth Wright's letter has been treated by many women. Even if he is wrong, or expressed his views tactlessly or with bad taste, he surely had a right to express them. Yet women who are quite prepared to treat all men as cruel and brutal tyrants, and who involve the whole male sex in one vast con- demnation, seem unable to bear criticism which, whether right or wrong, is certainly far loss violent in tone than that of the speeches of the Suffragette leaders. Both Suffragettes and Suffragists seem to bold the view : " If men criticise us, it is domestic treason ; but if we call them hard names, it is only what they deserve."
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