WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 5

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

BOOK BY SIR ALMROTH WEIGHT. 'Times' — 'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Oct. 2, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1. Sir Almroth Wright has published a book entitled "The Unexpurgaied Case Against Womaa Suffrage," elaborating the arguments in his famous letter. He states that the woman voter in the colonies is only a pawn in the game of politics of the opportunist politicians win enfranchised her. Moreover,*there is no woman's question in the colonies. English women who are threatened with starved, frustrated lives can emigrate and go into a humbler social class, where they can earn a living, and possibly become mothers. [Sir Almroth Wright, M.D., F.R.S., is Director in Medical Charge of the Department for Therapeutic Inoculation, St, Mary"s Hospital, Paddington, W. He has occupied the positions of professor in several universities, was a member of the Indian plague Cotmmission, and is the author of-the syste-n of anti-typhoid inoculation, the system of therapeutic inoculation for bacterial infections (vaccinotherapy), and of methods for measuring the protective substances in human blood.] "THE WILL OF GOD." NATIONAL WEEK OF PRAYER. 'Times' — 'Sydney Sun' Special Cables, (Received Oct. 2, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1. A national week of prayer has been organised by religious women Suffragists, who aver that tfhe enfranchisement of -women would be in accordance with th» will of God. DESPERATE WOMEN AND DETECTIVES. (Received Oct. 2, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1. After a desperate struggle, in which the detectives' clothes were torn off their backs, Miss Kerr and Mrs Sanders, two well-known suffragettes, were rearrested under the "Oat and Mouse" Bill at their headquarters at Kings way, where they were preparing for the autumn campaign. Four suffragettes were fined 40s, or a month in prison, for observe i police. DISOUSSION AT CHURCH CONGRESS. (Received Oct. 2, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1. At the Church Congress Bishop Welldon, Dean of Manchester, said that history had disproved that women's interests were safe in men's hands. Be pointed out legislative inequalities in politics and morals.. , The Bishop of Stepney's wife declared that women's newly-awakened responsibility was one of the greatest moral forces ever placed at the service of the church. Mrs Went worth Stanley, an Australian, opposed wo'aan suffrage.