On This Day, 15 February 1918

Birmingham Daily Gazette

Friday 15 February 1918

Women, the Vote and the War

[To THE EDITOR OF THE BIRMINGHAM GAZETTE.]

Sir, – “Rose Berkeley” seems unduly pessimistic with regard the future operation of the woman’s franchise, because of the attitude of the Pankhursts and their spurious Women’s Party, but some of us have enough faith in democracy to believe that a party whose leaders are self-elected political adventurers is never able to hold more than a temporary sway over any section of the public.

Many women today seem hopelessly anti-democratic, but the average working woman knows little or nothing of actual politics and experience will soon teach her that it is not such an innocent game she thinks it is. She will soon learn to sift the sheep from the goats.

The W.S.P.U. was broken up because of the narrow attitude of its own leaders, and I venture to predict that the so-called Women’s Party will suffer the same fate.— Yours, etc., (Mrs) E. Jones. Alum Rock, B’ham.