BETRAYED BY A SNEEZE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 38, 14 February 1910, Page 4

BETRAYED BY A SNEEZE.

SDEPEAGETTES WHO Hm E _J ORGAN pipes CI PLATPOBais; EL^^^ONn^Ej^ (From our -__E_^«OP»«e»t» ; With t» With the exception of a '* disturbances, hardly worfi, -"•a**"* such, there 'is a. camp just now. It is, M a 3 gette peace that heralds a _._£_, I not at all likely that ?* *¥ • will let so great L * for which they hare all aW S „_* i That they are still determined to .._' themselves in evidence w_T B W„ .?* . week, when two suffragettes wS fe covered in the afternoon the p.p. 3 of the 0 B _2*^| where Mr Asquith spo __ f^™" 1 Dw^ They had the previous day, and althotJ. ~SJ . night, a search had been _-4_ '■ ; police the women managed to te- - detection. Strange to- s_£ aS-22^ STRANGE HIDING-PLACES. Another woman was found __oi_i__ m a space between the rafters top of the organ. When it is *_-„" . bered that this must great height from the ground, aid tlu* a fall might have horrible results ifci. not necessary to dwell on the coolnesj ! and intrepidity of the suffragette i While _r Lloyd George was at Reading last week, the aadienoT-M : considerably startled by the appeaiis* i of two women, covered with dust,'ai'tk' reporters' table. They had beeh hSbm '■ -' under the platform, and had -t-_n£g« t* 4 ! reach the hall in the first i_»t__- by the clever ruse of approaching the toV_ I , by barge, so as not to attract atteatiph. -' I \ The fact that the two women, on ay Img out: "What are ytiu going to do'fot us?" were brutally struck-by a man irh_ % his clenched fist, not once, bat _u_t ' tunes, sp«aks too eloquently to need.wi ■ mark. It is fashionable.to s*r -Butt' th» suffragette' nrov^eJii- i dv* valry__-3'b_-"T__i-e_tHjn nn-sf arise a3 to '■■'- whether it can kill what ohramsiy &fM jo-rt-e-dst. No amount of argmnent caa q ever. eiKket-t<r-a±*i tack one already down, in. oi*l man in a huge gathering of.sua. rnthle-W I ly striking a woman whose only ctimt.il-! is that she is upholding what she beheTet in is altogether sickening. '• Mr John Burns has been an object <ii 1 attention already. '.' A well-dressed woman, who on ___m»f day asked Mr Marshall, the clerk fiff charge at the committee roomi, for sonar J clerical work, returned on Saturday f morning, and walking rapidly acrosg-.ihs I room, began syringing a brow___t liquid m over various elect-oneeri-tg pageis lying 1 on a table. When. Mr Marshlff rushed 1 across the room she darted into an _t__e_ I, room, and set to work upon a case ol f canvassing cards. Mr Marshall caught her by the arinuj anil a struggle ensued. The wom_af proved too strong, and after she Bad § liberally sprayed Mr Marshall fluid she rushed into the eftreet, a bicycle and rode off. ■ •s* *!? j| THE Ll_\llT__3 I-tANCH-SE. So clogged has the whole atmospherflFJl of the struggle for votes for women ~&u£~s the pros and con 3of it become in t_.|feeling engendered by the _iilrtant' tac«| ties, that I think if the average woman > were asked what the whole thing war"* about she would, to be honest, have to^

confess that she couldn't explain. The 1 editor of the "British Austra-asian" has,9 in his last num.ber, an excellent _-__-ning».,f up which is well worth study. -_It?: : says:— . _ vs "Apart from methods of warfare, -Jhs | end sought by the English suffragette i» altogether different from that sought I for and obtained by the 'Australian sup fragists. The latter won votes for all women; the former are asking for a small clas3, and if they were successful th-if victory would probably block the waj to an extension of the franchise as regards both sexes. "The cry, 'Votes for Women!' oh t&» same terms as men, sounds reasonably and just, but it involves a certain' injustice. Men in this country have the yota in virtue of being householders or th»._ tenants of rooms of « certain value.; Among the working classes, hardly » married woman would be enfraj-chiseat-1 on the terms proposed by the because her husband would control iSlBj only vote allowed in respect of the joint 1 household. The rich, on the other hand* I would have no difficulty in quaH.yrfljkl their wives and daughters to vote, and *i* class franchise would thus be created,? The result of giving votes to women oßi the same terms as men, which formut* I suggests creating female voters equal in".-'■ number to male voters, would, in effeetj ' do njfching of the kind. Enfranchised women would not nu_t«ber more than about a quarter of the". enfranchised men. The votes of p:pi pertied women would count heavily iii the country, where in many eases they, wotdd turn the scale between Gonserva-r tism and Liberalism; the votes of poorer: women in the manufacturing districts, where many of them might be qualified, would practically count for very little,since the Parliamentary seats in such districts are already held, as a rule, bj_ Liberal or Labour members.*'