FEMALE CRANKS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12757, 29 September 1919, Page 6

FEMALE CRANKS.

TO THE EDITOn. Sir, —I quite agree with the protest voiced by “ Home Fires ” against the manner in which members of Parliament tumbled over themselves in their haste to push the Women’s Rights Bill through the House on Friday. If by doing so they thought they were “making their marble good” with the electors—women as well as men—l think they were sadly mistaken. The public do not want to subgut to petticoat government, and I firmly believe that the women themselves would bo the last to give their sisters a vote. The experiment of allowing women to stand for Parliament has been tried in Australia and Britain, but with the exception of the Sinn Feiner, the Countess Markievicz, none qf the female aspirants has been rewarded with success. Instead they have been heaved aside with, as your correspondent suggests, a dull thud. This so-called emancipation of women has surely goae far enough. Gradually they have been working their way into all sorts of professions and trades, to the detriment of the men who are breadwinners, and the moral and physique of the nation are suffering in consequence. A woman’s place is in the hone, not on the public platform- I suppose, now that this Bill has been put tlirough the House, the country will have forced upon it a number of mothers of conscientious objectors and other cranks, who, having made their own homes miserable, wish to destroy the happiness of other peoples’ homes, by robbing them of what few pleasures are left. But will the electors he caught napping in December? I think not.—l am, etc., LOVER OF PEACE. St Albans, September 28.