The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-03

Great Britain Recognizes Part
They Played in Saving
Nation.
: a. 49, #EEirs "a rs rtAi.'
NAY Y SIT ! N LORDS ] | SOON
Will Have Big Role in Reconstruction
Work.-War Brings Right to Vote
and Sit in Houss OF
Commons.

London.-The women of Great Brit.
ain are going to play a bis role N re:
construction.
They have won the right to be heard
by saving the natiOn--and the nation
recognizes It.
The war has brought British women
the vote and, Ethe right to sit In the
house OF cOmm0ns-sacred to the
stronger sex" throughout the history
Of the British empire.
1t is probable wOmen's right to sit
in the. house Of lords will be establish
ed shortly, as well as the admittance
OF women to the professions on an
equal footing with men.
The question of "equal pay for equal
work" has been met in instances, but
largely It remains to be fought out at
ter the industrial change.ever. s5s' fl
e Want Age Limit Lowered.
Only Women over thirty may vote,
but there is already demand that this
age limit be reduced. /, st5 4 Z
Women have also invaded the
strangers gallery" of the commons,
as the public gallery is called. The
first woman to take advantage Of this
newly won privilege was Mrs. Walker
Kerr.of. Kensington, who formerly liv-
cd im=NeW Zealand, where she had
the vote=fpr IS years.
English papers predict that women
will add dignity to the commons, dig
nified as it is, and prevent anti, mem
bers from hiding behind pillars and
doors when 'cOunt" is demanded.
Already number Of women have an
nOunced they will be candidates in the
coming elections of them on
planks dealing with reconstruction
tasks. ~ -.. =
Mrs. Dacre Fox, one of the leaders of
the Intern em all' agitation, made the
following statement in connection with
her intentiont to oppose Sir George
Cave, the home secretary: -. &,....
IT will oppose him because his dc.
partment placed every obstacle in the,
way IF The internment Of all enemy
Aliens sf
Here are views expressed by prdnlIt
nent women OF England upon the new
otdar:=:z37ss!!;;
Mrs Pankhurst: '"The decision of
the house In granting women the right
to- sit MS 4lnelnbers was the logical out.
come of getting the vote, but think
the vote.;is. much the more Important
shall vote to get the right
type OF men into parliament rather
than to get women into parliament. !
am. very anxious that the strength of
the woman yoters-6,O 100000 strOng7-s
shall be given to help combat the very
real danger of~international b0lshe.
vism."
"sex Makes No Difference"
Lady Frances Balfour: "The sooner
the hation forgets the sex of its enfran-
chised citizens, or it's members in pub
lie work, the better for all. concerned.
Sex must make no difference in the
binding obligations of those who form
that great assemblage, the faithful
commons, in the mother Of parlia-
ments."
Baroness Rhondda (who as peer
ess in her own right is expected to
claim, as q test case, the right Of wom-
en- to sit in the house Of lords): Il
ll,inkzit is just as desirable that wom-
en- SHOULD be in the house of lords as
1t is. that they. should sit4n the COM
mons. The way for women in the lords
will be made easier by the admission
Of women to the commons"