JUST THE DIFFERENCE,
Speaking upon tho Reform Bill, introduced into Hie English House of Commons last mouth, with the obieet of amending Hie law with respect to Parliamentary ami local government franchises, Lord. Robert Cecil, after doling with 'plural voting-, touched upon tho punishment of law-breakers when they are men and when they am women. "When women break windows (he went on to say) very uiistak--11 '' I "! ul ,, wron ß l s'. as I have alwaye iiiouclit, they arc sentenced some to nine months, some to six months, somo to four months, and only tho very smallest offenders, (ansa who are young and perhaps misled by older persons, to two months. 1 lien we have Tom .Mann. He incites the troops not to obey their officer-. Ho is (fin ty ot ii very serious offence, and he is sentenced by u judge wo all respect to six months imprisonment. What happens? An'appeal is made. He is a man, and tho Home Secretary instantly reduces his sentence, to (wo months, l sav mm single instance is enough to show the gross injustice of tho present electoral conditions."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 10
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186JUST THE DIFFERENCE, Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 10
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