CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4392, 13 April 1893, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

Female Franchise.

|To thb Editor Daily Tihks.J

Sir,— Will yon kindly allow mo to ndd a fuw words in continuation of tbo loader in your issue of the sth inst. You say that "Thefranchitie of to-day is an unclean thing, that it is a worthless and despicable privilege for which moo core little and women less." True, but at the. same timo it must be remembered that it is through tho franchise only that men and women can have their wrongs redressed and ihi'irgrievauoes remedied; and women have many grievances exclusively their own, which men fail utkrly lo remedy or even comprehend. To auk that the vole be given to women, is asking h>s.s limn jus>ice, aH if the poaaisusion of the frunuhiso be a means of removing the eriuvrtnees r, f women, surely, whether universal manhood suflrnto hn ut mistake or not, that which will bring about so rtesirnblo a rt'snlt, ahnuld not be withheld. If (ho atmosphaio of polittea bo impure, lot ut be (xirifietl, and let women, to whom a highi'i' standard of puiity in nlloMori than to lU'-n, l>o f;ii'<iu an Dppoiluiiity uf exorcising; ihuir uiHiietici in ali'anHing and loliiiing the public ofliciiH oflHc I Move the honour lo he, ulo., Gun DotlUt.AH. Wellington, April litli, 180 U.