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% j %e = ' e 1 a '.J'.' k omm m "' MONDAY. MARCH 6. 1911 -- - M ¢ c grramesnan ty essm coee t Fhentnbeonniniennirepiaiee en tnmntimmesss _ Ask the Government for Votes H ;_--:_--___------__---':------_____'-----'____-----------'--------------------------" When he does not care to give a"governed and punished qccording to characteristic sledge--hammer refusa} | ltaws \Khich thpi: hzlwte(s) :3:::19: t1':)9'1'Ded_ j * o make nor agreed i k to a request that fails to meet "ith| The address declared that the right| his approval Sir James Whitney can | to vote was one acquired through cen-} be diplomatic. He was at his l»est'l tl;rile:es of strluggzlc for :he recogniti()?' f, i cugee % a % % i | of human liberty and human respect. | when several hundred women _('a""d which is expressed in the fundamental| upon him and the members of the | principle that there should be m'»" Government -- Saturday -- morning to': taxation without representation, and | agai ¢ o ight to vote,.| ho _ government without consent. | :f'?m pleadl 'ro.r t,h r'.k:fiq eBliv 1 © Dy. Augusta Stowe Gullen del!\'ercd! "rom the beginning O s reP'iy 9| an eloquent appeal for the baliot. | the end there was not a word that| Woman's proper place was the homc.i, could be construed into a promise, but | but man--made conditions had furcedi ri{ hk sArted + ita s enhesyr.| her from the home to make her own ; the ladies d'ep'nu d in quite a cheer iiivi'ng'. 'The granting of the vote to{ ful mood. \ women would bring about reforms in' "I ean oniy ssay." remarked _ the| matters respecting the home -- which! Prime Minister, in winding up, "that ; }1)21(1 hitherto llimen llargfrll\' nesfle('tled.! s n¥ o carany Pn s .. | Dbr. Stowe Gullen closed by refert ng | with reference to you! _pru"'" Cil" i to the thousands of immigrants who | bodied in the bill introduced, our 20--| were pouring in,. and who in a feW'l swer wil} be given when the bill comes| years would be given a vote. up for second reading." | . *Surely," she excliaimed, "we £ntel-! The advance guard of the deputa-- ; ligent wives and mothers could do as| tion arrived at the Parliament 'mild-' well as they. We certainly could not| ings long before 11 o'clock, u'!t'nrmzhi do worse." . i the time set for the interview with Sir The other speakers woere Miss Har--| James and his Ministers was 11.:;0.; riet Jolhnston of the Toronto Tnach-! When the menwers of the Govern--| ers' Suffrage Association, Mrs. J. W.| ment arrived the main staircase was| Bengough of the Toronto Suffrage As--| crowded, and every point of \'untagnl sociation, Mrs. J. B. Loes and Dr.% was occupied. | Margaret Johnston. | Dr. Margaret Gordon, President of| _ Sir James modestly disclaimeg any| the 'Toronto Sulffrage Association,.| credit for having "allowed" the suf--| opened fire upon Sir James by read--| frage bill to be introduced, pointing | ing an address calling upon the Gov--| out that the Government could not| ernment to allow a full discussion of| have stopped it had it desired to. "and | the Studholme--Proudfoot bill, and to| we were not so minded," he added,} approve of its purpose by making it | while the ladies applauded. The] law. ; gPrime Minister referred to the pro-l 'Xo State,"" said Dr. Gordon, "can| posal of the deputation as one invol\'-l lay claim to & democratic and repre--| ing a "social and political _ revolu-- sentative form of government Whif'h' tion." It was a serious subject, and | forces one--half of its population to be| one that could not be decided off-i taxed without being represented. No}{ hand. He assured the ladies that the «tate can be called a democratic State\ matter would receive full considera-- l n<re one--half of the community is tior *3