WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4162, 12 July 1892, Page 3

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

. Why Should the Women Vote? A correspondent to a contemporary Las supplied the following nine reasons why the franchise should be extended to the women :- 1. Jesus Christ was the firstfounder and head of the woman's franchise movement. He said tlint in him there MB and is neither male or female in his sight, He considered both sexes as good aB each other. Women were the first and warmest friends Christ bad upon earth, and they stood by him to the last, the first at the grave the the Cross. It 2. Women are mentally and spiritually men's equals. 3, Tho higher women are educated, the more intellectual race of men will follow. 4, Women have to obey the laws the same a 8 men, and should have a voice in the making of the laws. 5, Women have to pay taxes the Same as men, and taxation nii'»»> representation is unbearable tyranny, and a violation of the spirit of freedom, so characteristic a feature of the present age we live in, 0, Women are the heaviest and most bitter sufferers from drunken husbands, who beat their wives, illtreat them, and, inthegreat majority of casps, desert them in the end. 7. Women are the leaders in (he social purity mnvemont, find upon that ground should have the franchise, 8. If women were given the franchise thoy would vote lor the election of pure, moral men to Parliament, who would enact just, righteous, and jjure laws, and not the one-sided, un--fluust laws that now curse our age. 9. And this is one of the strongest reasons T urge why the franchise tbould he granted to women. Tho publicans are the most hitter and hateful enemies the women have; they ar« mud with anger at the prospect of the Victorian Parliament granting the franchise to women, They know the women will deal out one blow to ' the trade' that will sweep it off the earth; and when it goes, good-bye to the most cursed traffic that has ever cursed and polluted our earth,