The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.
Saturday, September 12, 1891.
Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’!, Thy God’s, and truth’s.;
The Legislative Council is assuming a dictatorial power which may lead to the extinction of that fossilised body. Not content with rejecting the Labor and other Bills, in a way that was insulting to the people, we now find them playing the game of men of the Fish stamp by throwing out the Female Suffrage Bill, which is neither a class nor a party measure. Radical Sir George Grey and Conservative Sir John Hall are the most prominent advocates of the Bill, the elective representatives of the people have approved of it by an overwhelming majority, the Press has been nearly unanimous in its favor, and the people have indirectly given proof of a desire that New Zealand should lead the colonies in this great movement. Yet seventeen members of the Council—a bare majority of two—have dared to outrageously flaunt the people of the colony by throwing out the Bill. A Nemesis will yet overtake that body, for surely this is a tyranny to which a free people will not meekly submit.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 658, 12 September 1891, Page 2
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209The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, September 12, 1891. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 658, 12 September 1891, Page 2
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