VIEWS OF CORRESPONDENTS

Press, Volume L, Issue 15138, 30 November 1914, Page 10

VIEWS OF CORRESPONDENTS

TIT FOR TAT. TO THE EDITOR OF "tITE PHTSS '* Sir, —Some of your contemporaries are delving into the political past. Lot mc cive them as good as they send. The greatest Liberal Premier in the "Dominion walked out of the House and did not vote for the second reading ot the Votes for Women Bill, but Sir John Mall was not to be thwarted. Mr Seddou once said; "All domestic felicity would be destroyed once ladies commenced to dabble in politics." and further, "if the second reading of the Bill is to affirm that women are to go about electioneering, 1 shall, if I stand alone { divide against it. I will not have it j said that a majority of the House are under petticoat government." At tho | time of the South Afriran war the grcit i Liberal Premier was loth to assist t'"" ho wa-n* tho current of events but he never attained to the ridiculous portion of Sir Joseph Ward, who asserts in tho presence of the country's peril lie did not approve of the Defence Ac. —Yours, etc.. A SIMPL'"- COUNTRY WOMAN. November 28th.