FEMALE FRANCHISE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10109, 7 August 1893, Page 6

FEMALE FRANCHISE.

TO THE EDITOR, Sib, —Would the leaders of this movement pause and consider the misery they are going to bring into homes, the wheels of which run none too smoothly now. I always understood man and wife to be one flesh, and yet I see parsons and others trying their level best to make a division in the homo. Then the bast looking candidate would always get the woman's vote. Catch her voting fora squinty eyed, shabby working man, no matter how good ho might be. The majority of woman never read a word of parliamentary news, and then do not even know the difference between a Liberal and the other sorts of men.—l am, &o„ BACHELOR.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I believe many excuse Mr Duval's incoherences and strange statements at the public meeting on Frida-,*, taking into account the proverbial excitability of the French character. Now, however, the explosives are over, and the smoke has cleared away, but wo still find him recommending hia fellow-men.to tyrannies ever their womankind, end treat them like “ dumb, driven cattle.” In hia letter of August 2 he commends Napoleon's statement that the greatest woman was “the one who bora most children.” Of course, the machine that turned cut most soldiers would naturally earn Napoleon's highest piatoe. But we tavo outlived such teaching as this, and whoever may.' bring it forward, whether- he be. a Napoleon or a Monsieur Duval;- we charaetenie it .ainothing less than brutal". A inau. whoh.-ia cultivated hia passions and his intellect only, and is devoid of, the tenderness and sympathy which would;‘keep him in touch with his kind,is dangerous, becauseof necessity cruel. And to women such men are invariably tyrannical, demanding obedience, silence, and all the other slavish characteristics. I do trust that Mr Duval is nob of this stamp. If he is, I should say it were better that a millstone be hanged about bio neck, and he were cast into the cea—say somewhere not too near the New Brighton pier.—l am, &0., FRANCHISE.