Married Men's Rights.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 June 1910, Page 4

Married Men's Rights.

A PLURAL VOTI4 ADVOCATE. IN PRFSIDEXT TAFT.

President Tal't recently said: ''Social isan is itlie grewt problem coiir froutiug America. The issue will soon come, and when it comes it must be skilfully mt v t.'' Socialism not only ('onlronts America, but the. w hole of itilie woild. A.'; it.o how it can he ".skilfully met" is the great (juestiiou. One solution. occurs to us in the matter of the franchise. rniviM'.snl suffrage is aerlainied to l>t> the quintessence ol' the wisdom of jiII the ages, but thinking men art 1 iilinns/t persuaded th<at in practice it is little short of lunacy. Wiliat, for exaiinple, could be more idiotic than the assumption that a Roosevelt or '.'in I'/lixon should lie the e(|iial of the meanest intclleci: or the greatest waiter in the lana in the matter of electing a l'.;ulianient to enact htu.s for the country ? Making a distinction between tin man of property and the domain loa.fer would not be eouuten.anced in these ultra-democratic d.-tys, but there are other methods which will appeal to the enliuh't'encd. Win. in his sober judgment, will deny that the married man, with or witifeoiii' funnily, should not have cr renter voting power tlin 11 the bachelor? The former, at any rate, jnys ever so iniicli more in taxation, which is vuipposed fto be the true basis of representation. Why -not. therefore, give, the married man two votes, and mi:.' w.ilh a f:miiilv a li'ittiif in niiinber to be fixer- at least three