SUFFRAGITIS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 1 February 1913, Page 7

SUFFRAGITIS.

We have come to the beginning ol the end of the women's suffrage movement in England. When, it presently dies it will have been killed by impudsnee and hysteria. The leading suffragettes, driven into their last corner, are urging the necessity of violence, and window-smashing tactics have been revived. The whole thing is farcical, and it will remain farcical until the British Government has the courag© to treat as lawbreakers these women who ©o flagrantly break the law. These women want equality: let there bs.an equality of "ladies" and plain women criminals. When a "lady" commits a crime, she should take her punishment, just as a washerwoman must.

It is idiotic longer to pretend that this is in any sense a democratic movement. The suffragettes are all for a privilege vote for superior people. Mr. Asquith, Premier of the most democratic government that England has ever had, is utterly opposed to the franchise movement. Mr. Lloyd George favours everything that will add to the measure of his notoreity. Mr. Asquith is a man of shrewd intellect. He has observed the results of womanhood suffrage in other parts of the world, and he is probably anxious to save England from that crowning folly. .In any case, t_e suffragettes have lost th* day. .