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enfranchising women. Mr. Lloyd GeOrge, as the 

 representative of the majority of the Ministry, will 

 eitiier move or support the proposal to substitute 

 adult for manhood sufirage. As there are said to be 

 404 Members of Parliiiment pledged to woman's 

 suffrage, Mr. Lloyd George's amendment ought to be 

 carried. If it is, then Mr. Asquiih, Mr. McKcnna, 

 and the other Ministers who dislike woman's suflVagi', 

 will loyally accept the decision of the House of 

 Commons, and from that moment woman's suffrage 

 becomes part and [)arcel of the ofificial Liberal pro- 

 granmie. All efforts ought now to be concentrated 

 on making it jjeifeclly clear that any member who 

 does not vote straight on this question will find the 

 whole force of the women used to defeat him at the 

 next election. It is much to be regretted that Mrs. 

 Pethick Lawrence and her militant followers, instead 

 of selling to work to make the victory certain, 

 set themselves to work to sma.sh windows in Parlia- 

 ment Street, the .Strand, and Fleet Street. Two 

 hundred and twenty three women were arrested, and 

 many of them will spend Christmas in gaol. It is 

 very magnificent, this thirst for martyrdom, but it is 

 not business. I have always supported the militant 

 Suffragettes hitherto, but with regard to this window- 

 smashing development I must frankly say I am not a 

 Sympathette. 



Some of th j more articulate of 

 Mr. Lloyd George the Suffragettes regard Mr. Lloyd 

 the Subject. (Jeorge with peculiar antipathy. 

 Nothing is too bad to say about 

 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, however, has 

 heaped coals of fire upon their heads by making at 

 Bath one of the most powerful pleas for woman's 

 suffrage ever addressed to an English audience. 

 .Starling from the fundamental postulate ihat women 

 have souls, Mr. Lloyd George would concede them 

 every right and privilege that they cl im, including, 

 if they cared to have it, the right to become soldiers. 

 'J'hey bore arms on-,e, he said, but they gave up 

 the business thinking it better suited for the intellect 

 of man. His point as to the greater interest of 

 women than of men in the housing question was very 

 admirably p'.it : — 



Who, then, is the best authority on the housing question '! 

 The woman, ihiough ihe dreatlfully long clay, has 10 remain in 

 that rlark, dingy, dismal kilchcn, nursing her dying chiklrcn. 

 (A Voice: "Shame!") Up to llio present all the share of 

 women in the housing question h.as been sulTering. It is time 

 they should be allowed lo strike. (Cheers.) N.-.Uire arms 

 every heasl of prey with the power to protect her young. Why 

 slioidd not women, at least, have the vole that would dean the 

 land of these foul dens? (Cheers.) .Slums; ate often the 

 punishment of the man j they are aliuosi always the martyrdoiu 

 of the woman. (Cheers.) Give her a voice and give her a 

 vote, give her the light to her •.hme in the making and 



ll'estrn.'usUr 0,fct-f/f J 



The Unrequit d Knight. 



(.4« old piclurt: in a /lew form.) 



The Maiden : " Unhand me, sir ! I will tiot be released 

 by you ! " 



administering of the ]aw> that afiect not merely her own lite, 

 but, \^'bat is dearer to her, the lives of her children. 



Adtiiirable, too, was the use which he made of the 

 fact that the Union caucus rejected woman's suffrage 

 on the ground that the women would never vote for 

 a lax on bread. Good also is this: — 



The two most important, delicate, and difficult businesses of 

 life are the management of a hoiiie and the upbringing of 

 children. (('heers.) Those have been run by women. 

 (Cheers.) But those important tasks have been conducted and 

 discharged by women with an economy, a foresight, a skill, 

 and, above all, a tenderness and a sacrifice which are qualities 

 the State stands more in need of at this hour than any virtues 

 planted in the human breast by the great Creator. (Cheers.) 



The sudden plunge that has been 



, , . , made towards adult suffrage em- 

 The only Logical " 



Franchise. boldens me to put forward once 

 more my favourite doctrine of 

 Baliyhood suffrage. Every human "being should be 

 registered as a voter the motnent its entry into the 

 world is recorded by the Registrar-General. During 

 minority the mother should cast the votes of all her 

 daughters, and the father the votes of all his 

 sons. Only by this means can the family be 

 adequately represented at the polling booth. At 

 present a young man of twenty-one has as potent a 

 voice in the aflairs of Slate as the father of a family 

 of a dozef.. R.ibyhood suffrage would redress all 

 ihat. It would give the falhcr and molher, upon 

 whom lie the real burdens of the Stale, a paiamount 

 voice in the governtnent of the Empire, 'i'his is ihe 

 bedrock [irinciple beyond which it is impossible to 

 go. Babyhood suffrage would settle the franchise 

 question once for all, and settle it upon the simplest 

 and most just foundation conceivable. 



