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Show TI10 StlffntKe 1" KliglAiHl. j The woman suffrage movement in England has suffered a very severe loss in tlio death of Miss Lydia, Ernestine linker, who for many years ably edited , The Woman's tiuffrage Journal, and win most earnest and persistent with pen and tongue in advocating the right of woman to tho electoral franchise. During the last four or live years tho movement has Buffered even greater loss in the desertion of tho cause of women by Borne prominent radical politicians and from tho lukewarmness of many Liler,ils in and out of parliament, who, looking at tho present state of political parties, fear that if woman suffrage ba conceded in this parliament the newly enfranchised women would, in the bulk, vote Tory at the neW general election, and thus, perhaps, for another seven years, prevent tho accession to power of a Liberal minority. London Letter. |