Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-17

-HE car ,paign for the en-
franchis tment OF women Is
about to start again and the suf-
fragettes are to harass a gov
eminent which has once more disap-
pointed and de teated them. For three
months there as been "a lull, hut now
the case OF n o women against the
government Is TO be taken up again
anu Great Brl tain awaits develop
ments. says the London correspondent
of the New Yoi & Sun.
For many day posters. banners and
handhllls have been scattered over
London almost as lavishly as at gem
erai election tim e. The suffragettes and
suffragists have in this fashion en-
denvored TO call attention to the fact
that the great cancellation bill has
been before the house OF commons FOR
discussion The gti-sunrag ists have
done their best 60 influence people
also.
when they found that about six
hundred men were to be employed To
carry sandwich boar DIS for the suffra-
gists they promptly secured the cm-
bankment and thh parks and secured
the services Of az many unemployed
as they could TO bear rival posters
through the streets. As "A consequence
the novel sight hos been afforded
around parliament and In the West
End Of one side NJ a street occupied
BY n procession of ab.Gct looking men
carrying sandwich boards FOR the suf-
fragists bearing such inscriptions as
Sane Women 'Wars the Vote"
"women Doctors Petition the Vote.
b26 for II, 16 against" women
Nurses Demand tie Vote" white
slave Traffic win Cea when Women
have the Vote" while other abject
looking men paradcd on the other side
OF the street bearing snti-suffrage pos
tiers with such inscr ptions a. sane
Women do not Wand the Vote mo
Votes for women Preserve the
Home and the Family"
At the Trafalgar square meeting,
when women of title and position stood
on the base of the Nelson monument
and pleaded with The thousands OF
listeners to demand the vote, the anti
suifragists wedged E1er way I'm among
those assembled and tried to argue
against the speakers and sell their
own literature. At the subsequent anti
suffragist meeting at the Queens hall
the sunragists made themselves very
evident by Interruptions.
The latest suffrage bill was known as
the Great Coordination bill" because
in Il an effort was made TO satisfy the
different factions IN the house OF COM
mons II proposed 20 give the parlia-
rnentary franchise to those women
who have a property qualification and
already exercise the right to vote at
municipal elections. E.d the bill be-
come law IL would have given the vote
to over a million women.
Very few OF the sunragists banked
much on the fate Of the bill They ap-
prcclated the efforts of the Cancellation
committee headed by Lord Lytton.
who had erdeayored to reconcile all
parties, taIt they realized that different
phases of the measure would be made
the excuse for not voting for II by Ger
tain members who were pledged to
support the suffrage cause and who |
were eager to avoid doing 50. Nat |
urally the bill was killed. and APP |
parcntly things were letf about where |
they were ~ years ago when the first |
suffrage bin was offered I'm parliament |
Yet in spf1e of the summary dis |
posal OF this latest measure the suf- |
frage movement has gained and is |
gaining ground even with parliament |
tarians. and iTs adherents know this |
Never before has a franchise bill In |
England had two wh.ole days given to |
II for discussion and debate. This was
the first time a government OF Great |
Britain had provided facilities for this |
treatment
As 10 how far this Improvement Is |
due to the efforts OF the suffrd gettes |
opinion IN strongly divided According
10 many they have alienated numerous
Indifferent persons and antagonized l