AGITATION IN JAPAN
FOR; WIDENING^OF SUFFRAGE. • v (The Timfes.Y N , ■" . ■ . (Received) Feb. 18, 8.45 a.m.) ■■\- v : TOKIQ, Feb. 16. There is great agitation to compel the Japanese Government to liberalise the narrow suffrage. The proposal is reaching significant and undreamt of strength? 'partly thTTeralt of the vol« " canic effects of. Bolshevik ideas*, and partly 'due "<io the Spectacle of ihe mar--yellousi achievements of the enfranchisement of western peoples. The present voting power being m the handß of ith'e commercial chute andi landowners has^ t led^ tp . extensive corrupton. A majoricy of the people claim ten million votes but the intellectuals are forming influential societies to organise a ntige peJiitiQn, f( as^jr,,f i pr. ;> wiv(|rsal. suffrage. The Japanese nave every encouragement to persist m fighting for political liberty and cleaner administration, notably m connection with their relations with Chmaw* .i'n i-U <ji.i k ,:
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 5
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