THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 86, 18 April 1913, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

THE PROHIBITION" OF MEETINGS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.0 a.m.) London, April 17. Mr Keir Hardie condemned the prohibition of suffragettes’ meetings, and said that if the police were unable to deal with the disorder, the military should bo summoned. Mr McKenna (Home-Secretary) replied that the suffragettes’ doctrines advocating crimes roused the audiences to such a passion that no police could keep peace.

A correspondent of the London Standard, who hides , hm—it must be a male—identity under the much-abusec nom-de-plume “New Zealander,’ makes a suggestion for dealing with the “vote hunters” of the Motherlanc who indulge in ‘.‘political offences,’ such as window-smashing, tea kiosk burning, golf green destruction, and the like. His suggestion is that tin Home Government should enter into an arrangement with the New Zealand Government that all such “political’ offenders be deported to that Dominion for a period of two years. A female suffrage exists in the country. “New Zealand” urges neither the Government nor the people could offer any reasonable objection to receive among them a number of well educated and well-to-do women, whose views are in harmony with their own. On the other hand, he says, “such a course'would give the ladies an opportunity of seeing the working of the scheme for which they are striving under the best possible conditions.” From a two years’ experience in the Dominion ho is of opinion that “those among them who are of the lower class would remain in a country where the servant girl is queen, which would be a good thing for them and for us. Those

of the higher class would, at the cud of their two years, have had quite enough of female suffrage, and would return to • England completely cured having arrived at a realisation of the fact that any advantages which might accrue from the grant of female suffrage would he more than counterbalanced by its drawbacks.”