The Daily News THURSDAY MARCH 28. THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 28 March 1907, Page 2

The Daily News THURSDAY MARCH 28. THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Ouv British sisters are still fighting lor thu unattainable. A wave of shocked protest has swept the leading columns of the leading colonial papers at the "humiliating" attitude of «rifragists in the Home Land. The protesters fail to see, however, that the present female war at Home for the privilege of voting at the general elections, and. for, if necessary, scats in Parliament, is really a dispensation of Providence, because it will have some effect in democratising feminity at Home and making Ihe peeress more or less the (sister of the factory operative. This "sufTragetting" is excellent discipline for the ladies and essentially a new experience for them. The idea of a highborn lady being hustled by a pnliccnvin at the entrance of the House of (.'ominous is a most refreshing one, and goes to show that my lady or her maid are now equal in the arms of the law. This suffragette movement, to our mind, is the salvation of a largo number of society wonieiH who, as a general thingy lead absolutely useless lives. His better to work hysterically than not to work at all, and it is a far nobler thing to break into Ihe House of (.'ominous than to sit playing bridge or hugging a pug dog. Whether the women of England achieve the result achieved by pacific measures by New Zealand women, ■docs not matter very much, for it has been proved that the woman who nas/ the boon of a vote regards it as not a very valuable possession. .Still the effects of the suffragette war at Home will be to arouse the pent-up action of people who have never previously acted when someone else could be hired to act for them. Women who would never think of walking because it is so fatiguing, now find energy enough to burst into the House of Commons, so there is hope for her ladyship yet. No great reform has ever been achieved without 'Violence. 4 History bristles with examples, and it is peculiar to humanity that what is fought for most desperately is prized the more when it is won. The good we see in the violence of the women of England is that in the evidence of the vitality and fighting qualities of the high-jborn and the lowly the possession of an object by women who have hitherto been' drones and the possibility of that tliev may some day exercise the privileges their husbands possess with no greater or Jit-iter claims.