VIOLENT WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1732, 24 April 1913, Page 11

VIOLENT WOMEN.

Sir,—Anonymity is great, and as a cover to ignominy shall, certainly prevail. Your correspondent this morning signing himself "One "Who Distrusts Violent Women" proves himself more inconsistent than legendary lore charges at the door of universal womanhood.. Consistency is a fair claim to make on those who enter tho lists where tho argument has not invited them. In the first place, no admonition can come from New Zealand against tho Suffragettes except with tho unwritten admission that New Zealand is prepared to annul its feminine vote. Beyond that, our friend with tho enormous ' cognomen vitiates his protest with inconsistency as enormous as. his name. Thus, after a recital of all the worst possible incriminations against tho Government—tho best fruit of the present suffrage—ho blames ' the women for wanting to change—perhaps remedially— the outstanding root of the evil, and that is the differentiating basis of the present suffrage in 'England. Inconsistency could not go much furthef than that. It will of course lx> thrown up at me about tlio violence. That would be shallow. If in such a struggle their fight is right, no methods could be deemed altogether unjustifiable.—l am, etc., HENRY BODLEY.