The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-28
Opinions Of Eminent Statesmen on Woman
Suffrage.

Suffrage.
THE RIGHT HON. w. Z. GLADSTONE.
cannot help thinking that, for some
reason or other, there are various inn.
portant particulars in which women ob.
tain much less than justice under soeia
arrangements. If IL should be founf
possible TO arrange a safe and we'll
adjusted alteration of the law as Il
political power, the man who shall at.
tain that object, and who shall see his
purpose carried onward to its conse.
quences, in \ more just arrangement ot
the provisions of other laws bearing
upon the condition and welfare of WON.
en-, will, in my opinion, be a real bene.
factor TO his cOuntry.-Speech in tht
House Of Commons, May 3, 1871.
THE RIGHT HON. b. DIsRAELI.
say that in country governed by q
wOman-where you allow women to
form part of the estate of the realm
peeresses i'm their own right for example
where you allow woman not only Ia
hold land, but to be lady Of the manor
and hold legal cOurts-where q woman
by law may be a churehwarden and
Overseer of the poor, do not see where
she has so much to do with the State
and Church, on what reasons, if YOU
come TO right, she has not right to
vote.
MR.. ]. S. MILL.
No one, think, can possibly pretend
that women, many of whom are respon-
sible heads of families, women who con-
duct an estate or manage a business,
women who often pay rates or taxes 10
a large amount, women who in the
capacity Of schOOlmistress teach a great
deal more than the great proportion of
male electors ever learned, no one can
pretend that such women can be pro-
nounced incapable of exercising the
franchise which is conferred upon every
male householder. If the suffrage were
conceded, an unworthy stigma would be
taken Off the whole sex; the law would
cease TO declare that they were unfit for
serious things, and 10 pronounce that
their wishes and opinions were not
worthy attending to on things which
concerned them equally with men, and
on many which concerned them much
more. They could not be classed with
children, idiots and lunatics, as persons
incapable of taking care Of themselves
and others, and who ought to have
everything done for them without their
consent.
RICHARD Golden.
There are many ladies, L am happy to
say, present. Now, il is a very anOma-
lous and singular fact that they cannot
vote themselves, and yet they have the
power Of comforting votes upon other
people. | wish they had the franchise,
for they would make a better use of it
than their husbands.-Spccch IN COrcnt
Garden Ihedter, January l5, 1915.
MR. JACOB BRIGHT, NJ. r.
If it be just ami right that a woman
should be able TO control the municipal
expenditure to which her property con-
tributes, should she not have a right to
control the parliamentary expenditure
TO which her property contributes
The local expenditure of the country
amounts to about e200O0,000 and the
imperial expenditure to about $40, ,000,-
600; and, if justice requires that she
should have opportunity Of controlling
the expenditure OF the smaller sum,
is it not unjust to deprive her of the
means of controlling the expenditure
of the larger? But we want votes
for something else than merely to
control the expenditure of our money.
Parliament can confscate the prop
erty of women, and it does so to 4
large extent. 1t can deal with liberty
and life, and pass laws affecting the
happiness Of people in the remOtest cot
tages of the land-matters of far greater
Importance than anything connected
with Xpenditure.-SDeC az the House
Of Commons, Nay 4, 1870.
RIGHT HON. GEORGE WARD HUNT, NJ. p.
l belive the feeling against granting
the franchise to women is the result OF
old prejudice and not of reason, and
therefore, l shall, with great pleasure,
support the second reading of this Bill.
Speech delivered ia The House Of Com
mons, May 3, 1871.
DIR. LYON PLAYFAIR, MP.
Many say we object to women inter
fering in politics because it is their nat
ural function to be wives and mothers,
and 10 attend 10 domestic rather than
civil concerns. That understand To be
the argument of honorable gentlemen
opposite. Wives and mothers may be
thus fully occupied, but there are many
women who are neither; and when it is
remembered that there are four hundred
and eighty-sevcn thousand widows in
this country, and one million, one hun
dred and ten thousand spinsters, il is alb
surd to try TO limit all women to the
domestic hearth, and TO prevent them
extending their sympathy beyond it.
The world owes much to the sympathies
of women, ana | need only mention
three names as 4 sufficient answer to
the objection that women should only
concern themselves with domestic, and
not exhibit any interest in public mat
ters. These names are Miss Florence
Nightingale, Miss Harriet Martineau
and Miss Burdett Coutts.-Speeeh IN the
House OF Commons, May 1, iS7O.
MIR. PETER RYLANDs, ". T..
Laws have been passed which pressed
unjustly upon women, and some OF
these laws are in existence now. Wom-
en- have a right to have their voice
heard in the settlement of questions
which affect their social position and
their individual rights.-Spcech at Man
chester.
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