The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-26
GREAT POINT WON
BY SUFFRAG|STS
Rights of Women Will Be seri-
ously Debated in House OF
Commons.
CABINET FAvoRs REfoR M
Rhance VIII Be Given to Find
Just Where People
Stand.
CABINET FAvoRs REfoR M
BY WILLIAM II. STEAD.

Z
Eondon June 25,--The question OF
sVonans suffrage has been advanced
In Britain by the recent successful!
demonstration by the reception OF
deputations BY the Prime Minister. and
Thy the decision of the Cabinet to ar
ford facilities for serious debate and
division on the subject. Hitherto the
Commons have not taken The question:
n seriously. and although majority of
1.-THE members has been pledged to the
cause there has never heen DISPOSE
.tIon 10 regard the claim of women to
franchise as coming within the pale
i OF practical politics.
4 When its supporters have succeeded
lin getting one day for debate its OPP
iponents have jaokeyed them by talk
ling 1t out. Hence the evaporation
(which has explained and largely justi-
l6et the militant tactics of the suffra-
gettes Mr.. Asauith is bitterly OPP
posed 10 It, but the majority of the
Cabinet fayors this reform. /.
X will be a change for the better
IL the leading members of all parties
will debate the question seriously and
all have an opportunity of voting upon
1t. We shall then see where we stand.
There IS no chance OF passing bill
10 enfranehise million women at this
fkession or. fear, by this Parliament,
but its opponents will at last be COM
PEELED to come out into the open and
show their hand.
1t would be well II Lord Lytton or
some other peer would move a reso-
: luton on the subject in the Lords The
peers as body will be against any
bill which enfranchises the working
women, but they might favor a meas
ure which gave vote to women of
property. for in that case every Tory
peer could largely manufacture prop.
erty qualifications for half a dozen Of
his women folks
The real reason why the Liberals
are lukewarm in cause. the Justice
of which they admit, is The horrible
uncertainty as to whether the women
J would not vote for the Tories.
At well known spinsterage in
Chelsea occupied by $50 women, 100
would certainly vote against the gov
eminent. The motto. Let justice be
done though the heavens fall" never
commends itself TO those who may be
: hit by the falling heavens
How to Police the Air.
i The discIssions which are now goine
on in Paris by representatives of va,
rtous governments as to the regulation
i. of the navigation of the air ought II
Il be watched closely. The probabilit,
that smugglers of the air will destroy
the custom duties on all smaller ar
ticles is naturally alarming those gov
ernments whose representatives are
demanding that airships shall only
cross frontiers at certain points, where
They must be subject to customs duties.
1t is amusing TO see Canute again
attempting to dictate to the tides, No
power on earth will be able to prevent
airships effacing the frontiers once the
complete mastery of the air has been
obtained. The beginning of the pas
ssnger air service by the Zeppeling
Company OF Germany. viii give an
immense stimulus to the construction
OF airship lighthouses. signal stations
and airship harbors.
After all. the butchers bill Of the
air up to now has been comparatively
insignificant. IA single hrst-class
shipwTeck' or railway collision kills
& In an hour more men than aviation
kills in year
CARNEGIE Maintains His Argument.
Andrew Carnegie has written me
concerning my comments on his speech
at the Guildhall He says that not
withstanding his sweeping denuncia-
ton of the use of arms in Internal
tional disputes be is entirely in favor
of using arms to compel governments
to settle disputes by arbitration. If
so. he would do well not to emphasize
so much the savagery and harbarism
IN killing people. Peace. civilization
and established order have all been
II brought into existence by killing peo-
K pie. The important thing is that the
killing should be done by the right
people in the interest of the preven-
.tion OF war not by the wrong people
for the perpetuation of anarchy