WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
MR. LLOYD-GEORGE AND A .WOMEN'S DEPUTATION. \$T Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. 9, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 8. Mr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the > Exchequer),...replying,to ( a deputation 'of worifei.'.'SMd':'.'."Supposing-;Mlf the Cabinet resigned on the womanjs Suf- , frage issue. Every great question for I which the Liberals had been .working all their lives would . be, wrecked. . The .Inilitant outrages, he added, had alienated more women than men.
Two-thirds of the Liberals'favoured Woman's suffrage, and his hearers had to convert the other third. Did anyone imagine that it was possible to convert "that third by throwing peper in the eyes of the Liberals' cherished leader. He would vote for the Bill at all stages, and if unable to get a larger Bill, would Vote for a smaller measure.
The speaker added that his own views Were unchanged, but the feeling against wcman's suffrage had grown inside and outside of Parliament, owing to the militants' criminal tactics: So long as these continued, he said, women would never get the vote..
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1902, 10 November 1913, Page 7
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166WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1902, 10 November 1913, Page 7
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