Again, no military foreign nation or native race would ever believe in
the stamina and firmness of purpose of any nation that submitted even
to the semblance of such control.

The internal equilibrium of the State also would be endangered by the
admission to the register of millions of electors whose vote would not
be endorsed by the authority of physical force.

Regarded from this point of view a Woman's Suffrage measure stands on
an absolutely different basis to any other extension of the suffrage.
An extension which takes in more men--whatever else it may do--makes
for stability in the respect that it makes the decrees of the
legislature more irresistible. An extension which takes in any women
undermines the physical sanction of the laws.

We can see indications of the evil that would follow such an event in
the profound dissatisfaction which is felt when--in violation of the
democratic principle that every man shall count for one, and no man
for more than one--the political wishes of the large constituencies
which return relatively few members to Parliament, are overborne by
those of constituencies which, with a smaller aggregate population,
return more members.

And we see what such evil finally culminates in when the
over-representation of one part of a country and the corresponding
under-representation of other portions has led a large section of the
people to pledge themselves to disregard the eventual ordinances of
Parliament.