The examiner., 1881-12-17

As few persons in this country are aware that the experiment of Woman Suffrage has been successfully tried in England for more than ten years past, we propose from week to week to give brief history of the movement there, quoting in every instance English authorities. In 1867 National Society" was formed having among it's members and officers such names as these |: Florence Nightingale, Peter Alfred Taylor, M. F., and Mrs. Taylor, Lord and Lady Amberly, Lord Houghton, Lady Anstru- ther, Jacob Bright, M. F., and Mrs. Bright, Mons. Louis Blanc, Sir D. We'd derburn, M. F., Prof. Fawcett and Mrs. Fawcett, MT. Eastwick, M. F., MT. McLa- ren, M. F., and Mrs. McLaren, MT. Char ley, M. F., Miss Frances Power Cobbe, Lady Eleanor Brodie, Lady Crompton, Countess Beauchamp, Lady Belper, Maj. and Mrs. Bell, Prof. s. Amos, M. D.. MT. and Mrs. Russell Martineau, Harriet Mar tineau, Miss E. Garrett, M. D., Lady Lyell, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, A. J. Russell, M. F., Prof. Cassal, Prof. H. Morley, Dr. Symes Thompson, MT. and Mrs. F. Malleson, Mir. and Mrs. Edwin Ar hold, Prof. Francis W. Newman, Rev. Canon Kingsley, Sir Thomas Bazely, M. F., Mrs. Hume -Rothery, MT. A. J. Mundella, M. F., MT. Morrison, M. F., MT. T. B. Potter, M. F., John Stuart Mill. Miss Helen Taylor, MT. M. s. Bass, M. P. !, Lady Goldsmidt, Sir Wilfred Lawson, M F., MT. Thomas Hare, Miss Hare, MT. Pochin, Mayor of Stafford, Mrs. Poohin, The Ven. Archdeacon Sandford, Rev. Dr. Temple, Rev. J. Wolstenholme, MT. B. Whitworth, M. F., Rev. Frederick B. Maurice
 In 1868 this Society issued an address from which we quote several paragraphs
 ''The progress of the attempt to obtain for women, on the same conditions as men, those electoral rights which are alike ,e- quired by their dignity and necessary for their protection, is most gratifying. The adherents of the movement, of both sexes, are steadily and rapidly increasing in num- bers, and the feelings by which it is prompt ed are deepening as well as widening.
 ''When the admission of women to the elective franchise was proposed, in 1867, as an amendment to the Reform Bill, the number of members of Parliament who voted for it, including tellers and pairs, was 81; and several more would have added their names to the list if the division had not taken place unexpectedly early. The very first time, therefore, that the proposal was formally made, notwithstand- Ing it's novelty, and the shock it gave to old preludices, very nearly a seventh part of the House of Commons gave it their support;
 ''1n the session of 1868, petitions to the number of 75, with nearly 50, 900 sigma lures, were presented from many different parts of the United Kingdom; one of which, signed by 21,O0O persons, was headed by the honored names of Mrs. Somerville and Miss Florence Nightin- gale.
 
 ''The belief is gathering strength, that, the weaker men are. the more they need political powers. The rich, if disfran- chised, can in many ways defend them selves, where the poorer cannot. As the mere vote is of little value to the rich man, but of much value to the poor, so to the weaker sex the vote IS of greater imror- tance than to the stronger. Those who peruse the long recital of female disabili- ties and wrongs, may without exaggeration translate the legal maxim, De maSnS4,ais 1aon cur0t Ler;S ;Sinto ''The law cares nothing for the weakest" We may be permitted to call it lamentable, that the source and token of all this injustice, female dis franchisement,-is now pronounced by the highest legal tribunal to be the law of the land.
 
 '"The diversity of mind in man and woman which IS adduced as reason for stripping women of legal protection, is really reason for giving to women full legal equality, in the interest not of fe- males only, but also of the whole commun- ity. Neither is the man complete without the woman, nor the woman without the man. The wisdom of each separately is imperfect; so is mans work, the law. Each sex is a complement to the other. As the conviviality of isolated males is, on the average, less pure for the absence of women; so is law less just and executive action less humane, in the absence of their counsel and vote.''
 1.-The Committee, therefore, earnestly exhort all friends of the cause to redoubIe their zeal in obtaining signatures to peti- | kf0ra rhox hot