WOMEN FRANCHISE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10485, 23 November 1911, Page 5

WOMEN FRANCHISE

[To The Editor.'] Sir, — 1 notice, in your sub-leader to-d'ay, in (reference to Mr Asquith • and the suffragettes, you state that fcihe grunting of the franchise to women iha.s had a potent- effect uponi social (legislation, and lias improved the 'Social condition of tlie people. I would bo very pleased, if you would •explain more (fully in wliioh. way it Oias Iliad a potent and' good' effect. I (have in a, jocular manner asked a great numiber of Oiadiesi who they are voting for, and the answer is nearly always (the same, viz., "I will! vote the same way as my husband." The only effect that I can see tihe women's ifranclw'isie (has (had is to carry .Nio-ilicenjso. Is it any wonder that Ma* Asquith will not grant them (the franchise? il 'believe Mr Asquith is in a. ibe-tteir position to judge which is test and fair for the country than •most people that are (here. One of the No-license speakers here stated, on the platform that Sie did not beiliieve in women being mixed u<p in tihe turmoil of politics. And yet the same mam appeals to them for their votesi on, tlie liquor question. Now, Mr Editor, I cannot see that , tihe •womenAs (franchise hero has had. a good- or potent effect orf the social condition of (the \people. I usually notice that the happiest and most attractive women are those who take no interest whatever in politics, iand a woman should be attractive, I fbeliieve. They aa-e to me, but not as politicians. Being anxious to learn anything that .tends to oiir welfare, I again asik you to explain this.— I ami, et-c, FREEDOM. (Our correspondent must know that there 'are scores of questions, outside the liquor traffic in which the women are vitally concerned. Are they net 'concerned, for instance, iro tjie gamubliaig and, the stociai eviJls? If tihe (happiest and most attractive women are those wJio take no interest wfbatever in politics, then there are very <few happy and attractive women in this Dominion).—Ed. Age.)