THE WOMEN'S VOTE IN BRITAIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1929, Page 8

THE WOMEN'S VOTE IN BRITAIN.

“ The women’s vote is already looming very largely on the political horizon. and is likely to he one of the most powerful factors in determining tinfate of parties in the coming General Election. For that reason it is occasioning not only a great deal of interest, but considerable anxiety in all political quarters,” writes Annie S. Swan in the 11 Scots Observer.” “ The now electorate is keeping very quiet about its opinions, its equipment, and its intentions. But a good many of them are thinking hard and trying to make up their minds. In my brier experience of political life f have noticed this: women once interested, both old and young, are far keener than men. It is their nature to'throw themselves wholeheartedly into whatever happens to interest them, and they will wort like galley slaves for any cause in which they happen to he interested. Not- by fits and starts, or in spurts of enthusiasm, but steadily, doggedly, slogging away towards the dexjio' goid? That is why, if they could he fully aroused, they would be a tremendous force. And there is no doubt that they will he aroused if we have enough rousers of the right kind. Then up shall behold a revolution in polities.”