WOMAN’S FRANCHISE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10103, 31 July 1893, Page 3

WOMAN’S FRANCHISE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —What a foolish position Mr Duval assumed when he tried to inform an English audience at the Women’s Franchise meeting that the Bible and Paul, an ordinary man, taught the subjection of women. He, tbe Apostle of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association, apparently knows nothing of the great wave of evolution that has swept over English women everywhere, lifting them up to bo the equal of men in every department of life,—ln art, in science, in medicine, in law and in literature. Nay more, the English Government has given a Government commission to Miss Orme, a lady barrister, who now writes out her share of ;the Government Blue Book, If Mr Duval had read the life of Harriet Martinc-an, he would know that for twenty years she wrote leading articles for tho London Daily News. I challenge Mr Duval to produce such women from the ranks of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association. I think it meat cowardly of him to try to prevent the womea’a franchise from becoming law.—l am, &c,, NANCIEA.