WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
A (.-able to-day announces that the House of Lords has carried women's suffrage by b'l-i votes to (>"■. One is apt for the moment to wonder why such an institution passed what is apparently, en the face' of it, a revolutionary democratic measure. But the .House of Lords has* only passed, a Bill which gives the vote to women of a certain class, mainly the nioiiied and propertied class. 'ih*- Bill which was before the House of Lords is not on the lines of the franchise we have in New Zealand —that is. if it is the same measure that was under discussion recently at Home. Still, the measure passed by the Lords: is the thin end of the wedge, ami it will spur on the advocates of women's suffrage to obtain the vote for all women, rich or poor, the wife o.f a lord or of a labourer. The people of England are gradually wringing from the Conservative rulers the privileges which a, fn'o democracy stands for.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 134045, 12 January 1918, Page 4
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169WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 134045, 12 January 1918, Page 4
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