THE Kaipara Advertiser. AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 1913. ARGUMENT BY BOMB.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 26 February 1913, Page 2

THE Kaipara Advertiser. AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 1913. ARGUMENT BY BOMB.

CURIOUSLY enough, Mr Lloyd George, who has been so generously described by Tories as a wrecker," has had. his house wrecked by a bomb, says the Times. The militant suffragists make no secret of the fact that the outrage is a part of their " campaign," and they continue criminal activities in other directions with a complete disregard of decency. As it happens in the case of the Chancellor of the ExIchequer, he is not a loser by the foomb outrages, after all, not [having completed the purchase of the house that was ruined. That, however, is an accidental detail. The lesson of this disgraceful incident is that the more reckless of the suffragist leaders are not operating a democratic 'agitation, or, unreasonable as they undoubtedly are, they would lardly offer insult and injury to me of the best friends of every rue democratic sentiment enow in British history. M r jloyd George is a warm believer a votes for woman, but he inists that it shall not be a class ote. He is a determined opponnt of the movement directed torards enfranchising that portion f the sex that stands least in eeds of legislative enterprise on "s behalf. We would probably tot be far wrong in saying that le throwing or placing of bombs hMr Lloyd George's house is a 'ory crime. Certainly those resonsible know nothing of the intincts of Liberalism and have no laim to be classed with the great ,rmy of good men and women v^ho are seeking to democratic )olitics and public life in Britain. We trust the miscreants now iniulging in an orgy of crime in England, though they be women, and though many of them no doubt would describe themselves as " ladies " will meet with swift and adeauate rmnishmfint.