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 but a fanatic to vote against men who have worked for years in the cause of Women's Suffrage, simply because they have not yet managed to make the Government move, and to vote for men whose only virtue may be that they have every political vice under the sun except that of being supporters of the Government. The only reasonable aim is to get such a House of Commons as will insist upon Women's Suffrage being made a Government policy; there is plenty of work to be done before that position is won, but it can be won, and it certainly will be won if we do not waste our strength in quixotic enterprises.

This is a controversial chapter, and it was meant to be so, but at least there is one kind of tactics upon which there need be no controversy. The one advantage belonging to the fact that Women's Suffrage is not yet quite a matter of practical politics is that it is still a matter for argument. When the forces are in the field, and a decisive battle is upon us, it will be too late to make converts; it is not yet too late, and if the supporters of Women's Suffrage will only go on arguing, and arguing, and arguing—why, it is just possible that the enemy may leave the field after all without striking a blow.