Are Your Friends on the Roll?

White Ribbon, Volume 8, Issue 89, 1 October 1902, Page 7

Are Your Friends on the Roll?

There are many good women who do net take this paper. It is not our fault. Perhaps it is not yours. But seeing that they will not read what we have said above, could you not make it your business to see that those of them that you know are properly enrolled ? Then during the last three years a large number of young people have come of age and are entitled to a vote. And the greater number of them will, if they vote at all, vote no-license. But young people are proverbially thoughtless, and many have not realised the necessity of registering their claims to vote. Could you not make it your business to get all that you know put on the roll ? You can get as many enrolment forms as you wish at the Registrar’s office. Get these young people to sign one, fill it up yourself (first being sure that your own name is on the roll), and send it in at once. If the readers of the White Ribbon would only look after their friends in this way we should have thousands of new votes cast for no-license. It would be a capital thing if every Union would set its members systematically to work at enrolment. If the women would only rouse themselves the drink traffic would be nothing but a horrid memory.