Women's Franchise

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 18 June 1908, Page 23

Women's Franchise

Women's franchise in New Zealand has certainly not justified the dire predictions made by some of its warmer opponents when it was passing from agitation towards realisation. During the past week Englishwomen who are pining for a similar right have, for the tenth time, demonstrated the amount of vocal energy and political horse-power that may be developed by the gentler sex when they ' take a day off ' to agitate. English political parties, however, seem content to hold, Avith ' Mr. Dooley ', that women need not agitate for mere rights since they have so many privileges. ' They haven't the right to vote ', says ' Mr. Dooley ', ■' but they have the privilege iv conthrollin 1 the man ye elict. They haven.'t the right to make laws, but they have the priv'lege iv breakin' thim, which is betther. They haven't the right iv a fair thrile be a jury iv their peers, but they have the priv'lege iv an unfair thrile be a jury iv. their a.dmirin' infayriors. If I could fly, d'ye think I'd want to walk.? '