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67o "A COMMONPLACE CORRECTION" "H Commonplace Correction" Corrected Miss Orme, in her attack upon my essay in the February number of the Welsh Review, commences by frankly con¬ fessing that she cannot discover my meaning, and cannot follow the flow of my argument. With this remark I do not quarrel, it is obviously true. But she then proceeds in her article, which she entitles "A Commonplace Correction," to criticise what she cannot understand, and to try to disprove the arguments that she cannot follow, by a series of statements, every one of which calls for refutation and disapprobation from all true Liberal workers. After drawing attention to two small verbal errors, which, self-evidently, had escaped the attention of the proof-reader, she proceeds to deny my statement that the burning question in the Women's Liberal Federation is the question of the political enfranchisement of women, and she states, that the burning question is how to win the General Election. This, however, is not a question at all, it is self-understood, it is a fact that nobody doubts; it is the ground on which all Liberal women unite, no matter what their differences as to other questions; and it is in a great measure to the energy that the Progressive Liberal Women have shown in a practical way at bye elections and in assisting Liberal Candidates, that their splendid success is due. The most ardent Progressive workers for the Women's Suffrage cause on the Federation, strongly as they advocate Women's Suffrage, do not advocate it being made a test question for candidates before the General Election ; their work is to make it an object of every Women's Liberal Association and of the Women's Liberal Federation, as the constitutional method by which they can ripen public opinion, and justify the Liberal leaders in adding it to their programme ; and the feeling of the Liberal women of the country is shown by the significant fact that they have already made it an object in the South-