UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 17, 15 October 1907, Page 5

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.

■' ' . »'■/....' ." , MOVEMENT IN HOLLAND. ,r BT TELEQBAPH—TEESS ASSOCIATION—COPXEIGHT. The Hague, October 12. . The Dutch Government proposes to modify the Constitution in order to establish universal suffrage with votes for. women, and to provido for the eligibility of women to sit in Parliament'. ..,"'■'. ■• .The late Hungarian demonstration in Budapest ' had for its objective ■ universal suffrage. The trend of the movement on tho Continent was anticipated somo timo ago by the "Spectator," which wrote: —"lt is quito ' possible, that within ten'years all the' great States of tho Continent may be arranging their legislation through Parliaments, elected by universal suffrage. That universal suffrage will ultimately bo found a strong factor in tho eternal strugglo between.'■ capital and labour Me have no doubt whatever.. Look how Ptoto after Stato, which has accepted that franchise, adopts tho 'difficult and, it may be, dangerous palliative of treating labour as service to tho State, and granting pensions. for old ago. Socialism will never succeed, for the indi-. yidual prefers himself to his neighbour: hut with universal' suffrage a now and • stri'.'M.er tho .Socialism of the Continent, -; I '-'"!) «ij a domand for more comfort for tho. «i'.iiiy, ftins ohanco." • ■ -■