WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 98, 15 June 1911, Page 3

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING.

(“Public Opinion.”) A JAPANESE OX THE SUFFRAGE. Mr. Yosbio Markino, whoso contririmtions to-the “English Review” on ‘My Idoalled John Bnllcsses” have 1 a (Torch'd hotli ainnsomont and instruction to its readers, selects as subject foi his instalment to the May mini an of that periodical the Snd'rawcttos. lie is emphatically in Favour of votas to women. At the outset Po rcn.ai In “i start to write tins chapter and F am holding my pen at this very moment, hnt I feel i want to throw my pen dow’n, For ifc seems to me the reason is too plain. Even the cats and dogs ought to know that much. What else can I say, seeing such a strange phenomena that many well-educated, and most refined John iJullosses with full sense in every respect cannot vote,, only because they are women. And, on the other hand those Little Englanders .hardly worth to no called -humans, .arc voting because they are men?”, On the courtesy shown women m England in serving them first and assisting them From carriages, ho observes;— , , , . • . “! n.uit say this is most beautiful nat'v.iiiil enstpm. But Froip the psychology al point of view, aye,the men really respecting the- women?,, 1 do nusp'Ct My suspicion shall never clear oil’ as long as such savage customs are existing—-1 mean the underpayment or non-voting For women.” THE KING’S LIMITS. When Mr J. F. Hope, M.P., asked in the Commons that it should ho lawful for the Crown to suspend the operation of' any Bill passed over the head.- of the Lords, Mr Churchill declared that the proposal was luroitst.'vULonal Mo congratulated the hon. men h r on Jus com ago in proposing >.o it-. I.vo ■mi pt? sonol yotq, qf the ;Crown Tic 1 Government's ‘view was that jthp ,Cr';'| ,| i a -ce 1 o hit- on, tjio, advice of, i,ts N ep usihlo Ministers, and fhqyymdd nui contemplate, the, possibility ,of. an Order in CVnncil passed under ti e atiiimritv of the". Sovereign .without the advice of i ospon,si Ide i Ministers enjoying the support of a majority in the House of Commons. ; i / L ■,i Mr Asquith said that ifi the amen.lumnt meant anything it was that the Crow i In its own personal act, that the'occupant of the Throne by ais own personal initiative and authority, against the . advice 1 of his Ministers, war. to revive tlie veto which had been extinct for 300 years in .order, to prevent the , suspension of the veto of the House of Lords. NAPOLEON AND THE ENGLISH. Captain Henry Meynell served under .Admiral Sir Pultoncy Malcolm on the St Helena station for two years during Napoleon’s detention there. He was on frequent occasions a visitor at Longwood. The notes of the captain’s diary are now published for too first time (Humphrey, 2s 6d net), and give some characteristic descriptions ol the Emperor and record some interesting sayings. “I do not dislike the Ergiisli ” says he. “I had always the highest, opinion of' the English character, and as, a proof I trusted to it and was, duped. Otherwise I should not hayo keen here. If I had not piefoncd coming to you, I could have cone to my father-in-law and have had one of hi‘. palaces to live in.” “What would Napoleon have done with EngTan 1 if lie had conquered her?” is a question often asked. The Emperor’s own answer is: “I would have made her a rent 1 1 hie and separated her from lieland.”’ OF 11 LOSS CANADA’S GAIN. Mr 11. >W. Essex, M.P., writing on the rural exodus, to the “Daily News” says ho inis.-just .received one letter from a village telling him that “Five more men have left E frtr Canadil i this Easter.” Some of these Mr. Essex knows well. “They are of 1 lie host we have’,Fund how one begrudges them, even to our great oversea Do minion. There on those wide-stretch-ing plains they will feel the stirring of a freer life. There they will find nothing of old-time caste privilege or pride. With a greater independence they will neither need nor desire the patronising dole that soothes so many here into a lethargic acquiescence with the injustices against which they out tcy struggle.”