Will Asquith Do It?

NZ Truth, Issue 352, 23 March 1912, Page 8

Will Asquith Do It?

All so.rts of rumors are current, to • the effect that Afequith intends "to tako the line of • least -resistance 'and drop manhood suffrage but .of-.the-.Govern-ment programme for -next • session m favor of a .simple.plural_yo.ting bill. I was told this week' by a usually wellinformed- correspondent ; *that .these ..3.1---mbrs are absolutely incorrect,- and-that Asquith .will stick to his • manhood suffrage , ref orrh, m spite of the Tor.V?. screams of-'prbtest that -are- s til Lire reding the heavens — or. getjting- stifled m the Tjondbn fog: that-. -floats',. betw-asn, London and the ■ heavens. ...Nor 'jwouldit be surprising, to find, the,: .Goy'ern-., ment deciding to include . female suffrage m the reform proposals, in 'spite of- Asquith's . _-•■,-. , . ( . .. • "STRONG DISLIKE' ; . to the ..female vote.~.> -Th^ Govfernmant have had a bad" time of -it -from thb shrieking .suffragettes v female exclusion from the Reform' Bill was announced, and as the : Li'berals...V , are very anxious to win back lost ground' — if that is possible: — they ;ihay • suade' Asquith against 'lias. Judgment, particularly as the Cabinet .'isTdiviled on the question, and Lloyd Geoi-ge is rampantly- m favor-' of "letting :!• the: women have the vote. . There -is also, sonic Radical clamor for. - a- referendum. One man one vote for England! . It is enough to; make the deaCitf'o'ries turn_ ii'iv their graves, .'aiuU -live. 'Tories will iereate » enough clamor. to arouse- them 'if they doh't.' _v. •■ ..,<•_.;■ , ; > , . •