WOMEN'S FRANCHISE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1926, Page 15

WOMEN'S FRANCHISE

Sir "William Joynson-Hicks, Home Seeretary> V- addressing a Primrose Leaguevmceting at Croydon (England) recently, said- by.-the time of the next General Election, it was quite possible that there will be a great extension of the franchise to the young ■women. The subject would be considered probably next year by a Speaker's Conference. There were many inequalities in Britain 's registration laws. They would, all be reconsidered, and amongst them was the very great question of equal franchise for women with men at the same age as the men. If that came about there would be some millions more young women untrained politically and uneducated politically, and women would have control of the Empire. As Home Secretary—that unfortunate Minister who had most to do with what were called moral questions, drink Iraffic, women traffic, plays, books, and films—he was glad of the women's vote. He believed that throughout the world women always voted oh the moral side on those great questions which had got to be decided by politicians.