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necessarily follow if the constituency of such a country
are wayward and capricious, demand one thing
to-day and the opposite to-morrow; if they are
capable of being led first to the right then to the
left and anywhere between; round all the points
of the political compass, by designing interested
trading demagogues. This danger determines the
proper limit of extension of the suffrage in any
country. Any lowering or widening that
introduces this fatal element must he resisted
stubbornly, in spite of all sentiment and all aspirations,
however seemingly noble.
When the question of introducing a new
element into the constituency is proposed, how are
we to determine whether it is liable to this fatal
disqualification ? Simply by observing the
conduct of the class demanding franchise in reference
to some subject of leading interest to them, one in
which they have to exercise judgment and free
choice, and noting whether in this they are guided
by fixed principles and exercise independent
judgment; or whether herein they are feeble and
inconsistent, and do the bidding, become the docile
creatures, of selfish trading wire-pullers.
Now the subject of dress affords us precisely this
test of the stability of female judgment. It does
occupy a very large share of woman’s attention,
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