UNENFRANCHISED SWISS WOMENFOLK.
The land of .William Tell has a splendid record in the fight for national liberty, but it has not yet realised the need for freedom for one sex as well as the other. It looks as if some sufy fragette there would have to shoot an apple off the president’s head in order to convince him that women, as much as men, dislike taxation without representation. However, last June an attempt at change was made in more conventional fashion. The president of the Senate of the Second Chamber received a petition from 250,000 Swiss citizens, asking, not for place or power, but merely that women should receive what is now considered the elementary, right of the vote. Of those that signed, two-thirds were women. The reform, when it comes, will be valuable, as tho Swiss voting system, though as yet for men only, is otherwise very democratic.
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Shannon News, 15 October 1929, Page 2
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150UNENFRANCHISED SWISS WOMENFOLK. Shannon News, 15 October 1929, Page 2
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