If a man has a wife whom he desires to treat indulgently, he does not
necessarily open a joint account with her at his bankers.

If he wants to contribute to a charity he does not give to the
managers of that charity a power of attorney over his property.

And if he is a philanthropical director of a great business he does
not, when a pathetic case of poverty among his staff is brought to his
notice, imperil the fortunes of his undertaking by giving to his
workmen shares and a vote in the management.

Moreover, he would perhaps regard it as a little suspect if a group of
those who were claiming this as a right came and told him that "it was
very _selfish_ of him" not to grant their request.

Precious above rubies to the suffragist and every other woman who
wants to apply the screw to man is that word _selfish_. It furnishes
her with the _petitio principii_ that man is under an ethical
obligation to give anything she chooses to ask.

We come next--and this is the last of all the arguments we have to
consider--to the argument that the suffrage ought to be given to woman
for instructional purposes.

Now it would be futile to attempt to deny that we have ready to hand
in the politics of the British Empire--that Empire which is swept
along in "the too vast orb of her fate"--an ideal political
training-ground in which we might put woman to school. The woman voter
would there be able to make any experiment she liked.