MANHOOD SUFFRAGE
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MR JiSQUttHS PROPOSAL
MOVE TO KILL WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.
(Received Last Night, 9.55 o'clock.)
LONDON, November 8. Replying- to a manhood suflViag© deputation, tJie Right Ban. H. H. Asquith. siiid mam's rigat to vote ougjhffc to depend on citfizensifiip. Tlhe sole rational course hug. to abolisfa. #he present qualification's and give evejy citizen, ivJio is a bona fide inibJabi<tant, the t-ra-iu-Jli&e' autoi. aticaHy. A simple Bill was to i>e hit-reduced in 1912 with that object. The Bill would not include won.t'ii, but it would be open to the of Commons to include them if theyvpleased.
G-eneral astondsihime<n,t was expiresaed in the Jobby at the Bremier's propooal. It was understood tthat tOieGovernment contemplated: a six months' residential qualification. ; Mr Philip Snowden declares that Mr Asquitli's action is a clever move •to kill,women'& suffrage.
The Wlomen's * Political Union tin-eaters to revert to -an anti-Gov policy.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 5
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152MANHOOD SUFFRAGE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 5
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