WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 513, 21 May 1909, Page 5

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

VIEWS QFLO.RD . IMPOSSIBILITY' OF A PROPERTIED :;:;;-■••;. ;'.:.,f^chj[se/./"-'"'"-'' - iVtX TILSQIiimi-il'imss ASsnr.iATiotj^coi'iu^oilT.r "';■'. " "'■: May'2o, 945 '; ' : London, May 20,// Lord Cromer, Lord." Curzpu| and Lqrd danieg, , of- Hwford d,?.liY er ?4''. ..fa. the pen's. feas«ft which, has been formed for opposing .woman's suffrage. Sir.Edward Olarke/thq Dean of (Very j\av. gy, A\ r acq), Sk: West $idge\yay, qod A.dpral Sir, E, ft, Fremiti©., wore, pre, sent. .'.'■• -Lord, Chirzon. declared thai;' thp bidk oi married. \Yom,ert did n,qt favour- % su,ffra,ge, : a',n,(| the. \vjyes, of.workers were.indifferent or-' hostile, to it. He added • that .it was impossible to enfranohiso propertied women and, refuse, the, yo,te to wives,,'" ■•'./■/.'■ , ■ WANTESWTHE SAM? FRANCHISE AS \ men/nave;';■.■■*•"'■■'""//. Thq. Wp°Ws Social and/ Political tFnion.the, body- behind the n\jlita.nt su,(fragettes/-dif:: fer, with. Lord Curmn pu th.e ho. raisps, as. to : tt\B, Whether for. . the" sake 'of policy or. because, 'of. conviction, thev'are n.qt. asking 'fp.f' al( at once;"'According to a rasejat' authority,, \ho Woman's, Social "and' Political tJnion are asking for 'votes for' women on the same terms as they- are.possessed by nien',' They' are not asking for the" voto for all women; ! 'siri6o it. has uqt yet been granted to all men'; they are merely asking that'those women who wbu(d bq entitled to vpte wero they inen, shall not b?. donarred fr?"}. E P, Apiflg by reasqn of their sex.'.-..Tfter »V? demnn dl n,?, in Pther wq.rds, that m Winciple of, -No, taxa.tipn wifhoflt repr?-. sentivhqn ■' shall bo ciyfprced,, anc\ that a)l tl\b,sfl Who pay taxes, bo.th Mfpnien'as welt as me'ii, ■shall 1)0 duly represented \n the logisldtur'o of the country.' .'" Under the existing'franchise, they say, n,\en who pay rates and taxes; who arq owners', 'occupiers, lodgers, or, who service" qr'uhi- . versity franohisa, pos.soss the Parliamentary vote.) if the clain\ niadq by the Women's Sooial and- Pq}itical Un\pn is conceded, then those V-o.m.en >vhp fusl thesp same qonditiohs will be places! on the ParVampnUry Kegister lalso. }}Wm wi|( thp \qto provided (bey pos«fs.s the necessary (UmiificaHp.ris.-'tlnis. wb-Jii a miirricil mr\ m ni)d no.t tier husband js the hou.whpldnr, or when a .woman"is'in business oh hev pwn account, sho wjlfbocomu a votor."-. ."' '" , ' ■■-." - ': It is'calculated that if this demand is-mot nbqnt a million and a half voinen ivill possess the yqte, in addition to the soven and a lialf mjlhop. men wlip arei at present onfraiiohised. ' ¥lf.W?,?! lo ßtfil fe' the. Womeii's Foci'til and Political Un\on differ from those employed by the oldor stiffra.uo. s.pcicticsin that thev are of an ■uneonslitutipna!,". or "miljtant," 'nature, and are directed Mninsf (lie 'GoWrnminf m power. These mtfhqrls, which oro base'd'-Vn a,ceptanpe,of the fact that Governments" yield only in resonnse'.to-nressijro,'cqiisist'ofi ■' (al nnpositfdn to tho Govcrninerit'nomineo at by-elections. ' J ' '• ■■ (b) Demonstrations at Westminster and elsewhere. . . ' .'■ '" ■'■ ■ ■■. at wcotinga addr««ed by Cabinet