WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 22 December 1911, Page 4

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

Speaking at a Women’s Suffrage demonstration at Liverpool recentl'-, Lord Lytton, who is President of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage, said lie did not propose to say much about the abstract principle of women’s suffrage because, in his opinion, the question had passed once and for all from the purely academic stage. It was now a practical living issue of the moment. The question was nearing the end of the stage of agitation and was on the doorstep, so to speak, of realisation. He believed the largest number of citizens should take an active part in political life. As a man and a citizen he sympathised with the present discontent, and he honoured and respected women for desiring to take a more active part in the political life of their country. He did actively desire the co-operation of women in the political life of our country, and therefore he was prepared to do everything he could to hasten the day when they would be able to secure that cooperation. Two valuable opportunities of passing women’s suffrage into law had been lost, but the agitation had gained enormously by every opportunity which it had lost. The insurance Bill would never, if women had possessed the franchise, been introduced into Parliament in the form in .which it was introduced. The fact that salaries were now given to members of Parliament had given a great impetus to women’s suffrage. It was a monstrous injustice that women should have to pay towards the salaries of gentlemen who did not in the least represent them and in whose election they had had no share.