Female Franchise in Ireland.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 10 July 1902, Page 4

Female Franchise in Ireland.

In 1898 (says a writer in the New York Sun) the women of Ireland obtained every form of suffrage except that for member of PteSj a n nTfo^o7r madee , ligible f ° r *•«»»* Md bo\ouXou"cn fl Dublin to consider action at the approaching election They were welcomed by the Lord Mayor, who' sDoke of th« oonneoted-the corporation-might be not a little improved in" dealt with women and children, and women inspectors put into I^t^SZtSSIS* 1 " 1 alt 09 ° t0 k with^a^ hear y commendation of the action of the meeting? and S3S ' 'No person who feels the least interest in the working of the Local Government Act can have failed to perceive that since the admission of the right of women to fill representative positions a great improvement ha« been effected in nearly every branch of ad* ministration. This statement is true especially with regard to The administration of the Poor Laws, for which /omen hafe a natural aptitude, and in which the sphere of congenial work i Tvery large We do not exaggerate when we say that the duties of Poor Law guardians have never, as a whole, been more efficiently diJhargeJ than thpy have been during recent years_a state of thS due entirely to the fact that a considerable proportion of the guardians are l a , les , who are animated by a de,ire at once to assuage the hard lot of the poor a. d to perform a meritorious public service Every board in the country should have its quota of women guardians, whose business it would be in an especial manner ToTok after the wetl-buag of poor persons of their own sex and of the children, who in the past have been fo sadly neglected.'