THE WOMENS FRANCHISE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LV, Issue 5790, 6 October 1893, Page 4

THE WOMEN S FRANCHISE.

At a Women's Franchise League meeting at Fort Chalmers a Mrs Don spoke, and used Borne literally " homely " illustrations to make her political meaning dear. She said : — " Since I have commenced taking a share m the work attendant on the women's franchise qutstion, I have boon passing through whut might be called a process of political edu cation. I have read the papers time after timo with peoulior curiosity. One paper describes the Ministry of the day, or the Premier, as the case may be, as insincere and untrustworthy, while the paper of the oppo-ite aide of politics lauds the Premier to tho ekies and speaks of his colleague*) rb heaven-born stattemon. 'Jhia is such a uniform practice tlmfc i would almost floem as though it wds a matter of agreement between the enn tending parties that the Press on one aide BJf'iiid always praiße, while that on tho Hh°r pido should always blame ; bo that, inachim. it. lin.i become to me — I don't know ho<v it n:ny bo to you or other women — necessary that I should teßt politics aa we are m the babu of testing the pudding. Wo always ot;y : ' The proof of our pudding i 3 m the e&ting ' If it is good m the eating, and we c?n pet a good slice, then don't we praise the cook ? Sometimes it is so good that we run lha risk of b°ing thought greedy by asking for anuther slice. Well, madam, you know bolter than I do how the pudding was made, how the pudding was etirred, how the pot woa kept boiiing ; but whether Mr HcdrJou chopped the suet or Mr Reeves (•tonod the raisins, whether Pir John Hall found the spice, and Mr Saunders everything nice, I don't know ; but this I do know : that thoro wore some few energetic women m Duiiedin who had been watching the process, who know where to get the fuel, who knew how to handle the poker, who know how to niako » fire that should keep the pot boiling. Wo have our noble president, our Brownlieu, our Broads, our Trainors, and many others who have thrown their hearts into the work — who have laboured, toiled, and striven, praying all the time that God would crown with Buccoss their humble efforts to secure the full emancipation of our sex."