THE FUTURE OF "MILITANCY."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 86, 2 April 1914, Page 4

THE FUTURE OF "MILITANCY."

If the cause of the alleged split in the camp of the militant suffragists is, as is suggested, a difference with regard to the efficacy of militant tactics, reasonable people generally and suffragists in particular have certainly no cause to regret it. There could scarcely be a more crushing condemnation of militancy than its formal abandonment by all but one of its inventors and patentees. There is, of course, ample evidence to the ordinary mind that the militant campaign, especially in its later stages, has not only failed to advance the cause of women’s suffrage but has done it very grave injury. But to have this fact recognised at militant headquarters has seemed hitherto the vainest of vain aspirations. If it really is recognised, the apparent hopelessness with which the movement has been invested by the frenzy of militancy will be very effectively dissipated, remarks the London “Leader.”