The Washington times., 1912-02-20
AUSTRALIAN GUIDE
SAYS WOMEN MAKE
BETTER ELECTORS
Woman Suffrage Universal
in Continent-Boys Seeing
Sights Again Today.

''There is universal woman suffrage
ir Federal elections in Australia aud
women are permitted to vote in State
elections everywhere except in Victoria
and Tasmania. l am unIualihedly in
favor of woman suffrage from what
] have seen of its operations"
This is the view of Lieut.. ]. ]. ST.
mons, who is in charge of the party of
boys from Australia who are now tour
inS this country The lieutenant will
spsak at the Chamber of Commerce to-
night on the success of woman suf-
'frage in Australia after a trial CT eleven
years.
The women are more independent in
their voting than the mcn," he COntin-
Ced They do not follow party Clndi-
dates as blindly as do TIVE men. Either
women have cleaner ideas Of politics or
they are more prudish-in effect it 10
the same-and unless man has
clean character he cannot go far in
Australian politics. Every woman has
q vote when she reaches the age of
tWenty-One.'
Prohibition Not Favored.
Despite the fact that women in AUS
tralia may vote in all elections, with
the exceptions uottd, prohibition of the
sale of liquor Is not in effect anywhere.
In towns whore elections have been
held on this issue prohibition has fail
ed
I'VE do not try to handle the liquor
question as drastiCally as you do in
America" said Lieutenant SimOns. we
prefer to leave it to the good sense Of
the people. The canteen has been aboI-
ished in the army, bat that is the only
instance OF prohibition l know Of.
Two state ho;els-gOvcrnmeut uispen-
saries-haVe been opened and nave been
run at great profit. 1t appears that the
liquor business will all be handled this
way. 1t is handled !ust like the post
office, purely as matter of business
A man Is permitted to buy what he
wants in these places. but no induce
ments are offered to cultivate his trade
There are 1900 boys in the Young
Australia League, of which this party
are all members, and none of the boys
touch liquor. They are not pledged to
leave it alone, but do so as a matter
of education"
The party went to Mt. Vernon this
morning at 10 O'Clock. \ wreath was
the forty boys, clad in blue suits and
white caps, stood at attention and salut-
ed before turning away
At White House.
A reception at the White House will
be held at 2:i5 o'clock this afternoon. 1t
will not be the first time that the boys
have seen President Taft. They were
in San Francisco when the President
turned the first spad1ful of earth for
the Panama Pacific exposition and were
the only civilian company in the great
parade that was arranged at that time.
Lieutenant Simuns gave three ad-
dresses in the "oun of the high schools
yesterday The forty boye visited
"Tcch,' and were given a r"using well
Gene Or. Davidson and Captain Oys-
ter, actin. in 4 dual capacity as prrsi-
dent of The BOarl of l.duCatlun and the
Chamber Of NOmmCrrH, Lad charge OF
the activities. Or, Davidson nude the
Address of welcome at - CCh" and
Donald Tobn spoke for the boys.
At the conclusion OF the talks the
LoyS sang the song which Was wIitlrn
IN Australia whan the American bat.
tIrships camc on their famous round
thc-wmll trip, called "Wc,ve Got q
HI: Brother in America" StudC ats in
the assembly hall rose and gave tn,
school we'll, whcu the Australian Lows
returned with the striking aud distinr
'cOO-h""' IF the bushrlngers The boys
then visited Business High School.