SHALL ENGLISH WOMEN VOTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1864, 17 June 1884, Page 4

SHALL ENGLISH WOMEN VOTE.

Mrs Fawcltt, w ife of the English Postmaster Gcncial, says :—": — " It is said sometimes that women themselves ilo not wisli for the pailiamcntaiy mi ft i age. A similar aigument lias been used against almost eveiy gi cat lcfoim. It was said that the slaves did not wi^h to ho fiee— th.it Noneonfoi mists did not wish for the repeal of the Test-, ami Coipoiation Acts. It is an old sloiy. 'J ho-e who say women do not wish toi the suffrage aio piobably guided b} the opinions of huliea whom they meet in society ; but study the hint geneial election was bullioient [noof that ' society ' and the ' Kngluh people' aie not identical expie-sions. It cannot bu domed that hundied^, of -women do wish for the piuliameiit.uysulli.ige ; that they petition raihament again and a^nu to giant it to them. A binaUoi numbei devote a peat paitof tlieu lives m winking to piomoto it, and make teal and deepiy-felt sacuhecs foi it. Ncaily oil the distinguished v. omen of the pit-sent time have wished for it and e.vpies'scd their desire for it. Mis Somervilie, -Miss Martineau, Miss Florence Nightingale aie the hist tin ce n.imea that oa.iu to me among the women who have made then name? known in science, literature, and philanthiopy who have been tioin the outset of the movement coidial snppoi tcisof women's silf.Mgj. (Ji.n'ii^ down to the huinlJu women of eveiyday life, it is found tint a veiy large piopoition now wisli v. o'i.en housiholdeis to have \ote-. A few niontlib a_ f o 700 women householdcis in ]Ijdc, neai Manchester, v/eie oo masked to si'ji a, petition in favour of women's sufluiijc. and of these 700 the petition w.u signed by 008. A stiaw shov s the way the wind is blownig, arc! onolhei little fact may be mentioned in tlii-j connection. A young women's debating society in (ambiidgc lately discussed woin n n's sulFiago, and i ejected a lesolution coudenumig it by 50 votps to 13. There arc, ot eouise, some women who do not wish for votes The majoiity of thu r e do not pet haps possess the ijuabdcation that would enable them to vote; but even if they do, no one wishes feu a law to compel won.en to vote. I have sometimes heaid men speaking with much satisfaction of having half a-do/.en votes in different paits of the countiy and never having u=ed one of them. The type will probably bo found among both se\cs. .But the wo. m-n who do not want votes aie not so zealous m their l enunciation of •what othei-5 want a-, w etc the dissenteis w lio petition' d L'.u 'l i.vent against the repeal of the Five Mile Act and the Conventicle Act Tlmi petition was paiapluased by BouiKc m w>i(h that will not easily be fom )tti n • -" Wo, say the dissenteis who petition agunst dissenters, enjoy evciy spec.ci of indulgence we cinwiah tm, audai weate content •we piay that othcis w lio aie not content may meet with no icliof. .Some of us aie not content. We arc asking foi freedom and for repicsontation on exactly the same giound'- on wliich our fatheisand foi cfatheis asked for it and won it."'

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