Woman’s Suffrage.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 537, 27 November 1890, Page 3

Woman’s Suffrage.

(to THB BDWOB.j Sib,—l fully endorse every remark made by your correspondent “ Cassandra.” I believe all enlightened women do wish the franchise. The unfortunate thing at present is that we are judged by the bolder women who put themselves in the foreground. The real women to'deal with are those who read and think, but with the caddish conventionalities Of the present age they would deem it brazen to come forward and speak.up for themselves, besides which they are given no opportunities for practice in the art of public speaking. But we have all the.leading colonial statesmen on our ride, and the time is not far distant, I believe, when there will be the gieateat and best revolution ever recorded in history. Therefore we need pay no attention to the twaddle that is talked by namby-pamby politicians. Will yon kindly insert the following extract from another newspaper :— Judge Carey, ot Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been in Chicago lately, and has been frequently interviewed by reporters of the local Press on the workings of woman’s ballot. No man in the world is better able to give a just decision than be. The Chicago Tribune qdotes Judge Carey as saying ; ” As heoomes the only State in the Union where women pan vote for President, our politics are exceptionally pure. The women as a rule are not politicians, gnd do not oare for office or political excitement. They are not so subject to party influence as men, and the right of suffrage gives them a certain leverage for their cwn protection which they are not slow to use. It would he disastrous for a man of bad reputation to run for office in Wyoming. Tbe women constitute less than 20 per cent of the voting population of the new State. There are always many more men than women in a new country like ours> Usually about one half ox them go to the polls; Tbe distances ate great, and they regard voting more in tbe light of a duty than b pleasure. Hence 1 it is thst Ortjinqrjly nut

more than half of ’them will vote. Let me say that in the twenty-one years’ experience Wyoming has had of woman suffrage its influence has always been salutary, and it is regarded by us as one of our . most precious safeguards.'* I am, etc*., Amy.

Speaking at Tauranga, Mr G. V. Stewart, who is almost certain to be returned for Te Aroha, thus referred to the question of woman suffrage : Ido not see why the fair sex should not be placed in the same position as men iu the selection of those who are elected to guide and direct the destinies of their country, and I am supported in my view of the matter by such statesmen as tbe Marquis of Salisbury, Mr Gladstone, and minor political authorities, such as Sir fi. Atkinson, Sir John Hall, Mr Ballance, and your late member Mr W. Kelly. We all know the powerful effect of woman upon the feelings of the sterner sex. The judgment of women is in my opinion fully as keen, as righteous, as honorable as that of men, and their influence is likely to weigh in the direction which is exceedingly valuable, I therefore hope that those of the fair sex who may chance to read my views on this subject will not consider me guilty of bribery and corruption, when I ask them to support me in my endeavor to secure that privilege which is in my opinion is due to them.”