REAL UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 65, 31 October 1911, Page 2

REAL UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.

All residents in the socialist settlement of Arden, in the Stare d Be laware, men, women, and children, have tiie right to vote. At the last town meeting, when the rents lor this year u . ro to bo iixed, the party in control, fearing defeat, routed tno women and babies ’out of bed at midnight to go to the polls. One eight-months-old baby voted. He ..yelled with vigour, so iris paper was marked, “Not content.” Tnis reads eminently just and fair (says an English paper). There is no reason why a child should not possess the franchise, for he usually snows as much about political questions as a woman. But there arc dangers when many votes proceed from one household. Supposing the contest wore of a nock-ancl-neek order. The decision of the infant might plunge a nation into war. Besides, its mother n ight lie tempted to employ undue influence even to the extent of poisoning its pap 'or cooling the ardour of its political intelligence, after the manner adopted by .Mrs. Mae Stinger.