ARGUMENT BY BOMB

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 4

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. . 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 Exchequer, he is not a loser by the bomb outrage, after all, not having completed the purchase of the bouse that was ruined. That, however, is an accidental detail. Tie 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 hardly offer insult and injury to one of the best friends of every true democratic sentiment known in British history. Mr Lloyd George is a warm believer in votes for women, bnt he insists that it shall not bo a class vote. He is a determined opponent of the movement directed towards enfranchising that portion of the sex that stands least in need of legislative enterprise on its behalf. We would probably not bo far wrong in saying that the throwing or placing of .bombs in Mr Lloyd George’s house Is a Tory crime. Certainly those responsible know nothing of the instincts of Liberalism and have no claim to be classed with the great army _of good men and women who are seeking to democratise politics and public life in Britain. We trust the miscreants now indulging 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 adequate punishment.