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w the vote. "not it work "22:2 he said, "and agitate a while." In anything of the nature of , ANAGEBUS W religion the ladies took the lead, and MINE M he was glad to work with them. W (1iyllf RDAD Trouble Enough as it is. FOR l h i Dr. T. S. T. Smellie (I:ort \Villiiam) ---------""- id v some time to or ticism, n no " ORCUPINE Hazing spirit. of Mr. Btudholme, and DELEGATION 3532:51ng FOR [said we were badly enough mixed ' CALL UPON G , ' _ ' s l iwith foreigners now without having l FURTHER FACILITIE . [the women in politics, too. . He would -----------" l , impose an educational requirement on y . h [foreigners before allowing them to Mr. Perry Robins, Manager of t e[ vote. say, equivalent to the Second Hollinger mine and Mr. Charles Ye Book work. Bon of the Armstrong-McGibhon A Wrong View ot Politics. Company called on Provincial Secre- i Hon. A. G.oMacKay took Mr. Dono- itary W. J. Hanna and Hon. Dr. ,'van to task for his expression about 1 Resume. Minister of Public Works the 2'Jng 91:01 f,',t,ig'yl,t,i,csir',' 811138 ' [and Fisheries. yesterday and asked mem er for me v e. e ima ne ' N . " - stood alone in public life to-day in (that the Government "my"? 12:: this Province in his estimate of poll- gon road from the south 'T O V [tics No man with a reasonable or cuplne Lake to Matagami River, a ' i'fe,'1fi conception of (Iliuity. thfe Irie,',"; [distance of four miles. elieved, entered po tea] 1 e wit ou . out that the Gov- . |being pepefltep. There was no doubt il/Cf/ 1J/',inrtt/ilt a railway to Por- [of this, that it had an ennobling ef- 'cupine and should complete its work feet. Never had women lost a single [by building a waggon road to the . [atom by going into politics. The (ramps so as to enable prospectors to r same arguments used against woman 'ttet 'iii'oii." outfits through without . [suffrage had been used against giving', you trouble and expense, , [votes to workingmen in the old land". The delegation was appointed at a I As to the objection that women inr general meeting of mine managers [Ontario do not vote in large numbers! held recently. at which steps were . [where they have that right now, Hon. I taken to form a chamber of min.es. . [Mn MacKay said it was due to the' 'Manager Kingsmill of the Ray mine [fact of their franchise being restricted was a member of the deputation. but . lto widows and spinsters and to muni-, was unable to come to the confer- . 'cipal affairs. But in New Zealand, once. . ihe said, 30,000 women petitioned for! The Government promised to look _ .the franchise. 101,000 became enroll-! into the matter. Ied, and 85.18 per cent. of these voted, -crrrrrrrrrrtrr-tr-r-err-"'"- €79 women voting for every 80 men. [A Democratic Measure. I l As to the democratic view, Mr. Mac- , iKay argued, if freedom was to be[ a, ["broad-based upon the people's will," 'i , [yet man said he was the whole peo- . ' i ple. Gut woman was as much affect- C' led by legislation as man, she suffer- l !ed as much from bad legislation or [lack of legislation. [Hall-mark of Citizens. I " N i' "I am not in the field of ratiocina-i _ q ';tion." said Hon. Mr. MacKay, "if I am l ', K ' (not right in this, that in granting the[ 's, " I franchise to women we should he giv- l Sing them the hall-mark of full citi- . izenship. Nor would this induce. . [them to rock the cradle less fre-[ 'N _ [quently or intelligently; but they - would rock it much more confident- l ly if knowing they had in their hands 'this power of citizenship." ' I They Want It, Yes. if petitions came in in sufficient numbers, he said. signed by them- Selves. their husbands and brothers,[ they would get the franchise. But, he asked, did they think they could[ accomplish more in that way than . .by exercising their influence without[ the franchise? Foreigners had not. [the stake and interest in this coun-' try that the mothers of the land necessarily had. This bill, however, [was not in such a form as was neces- [sang and he did not think the time. 'quite opportune yet for granting wo- [mcn the franchise, so he did not in-', tend to support the measure at pre- scnt. I A Serious Matter. ' Sir James began by remarking that [the question of woman suffrage was a i"serious, earnest and grave matter" ( . land one that should be seriously con- ( [sidered by the House. He declared [that he was not going to talk about the abstract question, and went on to 1 point out that the time had not ar- l rived for such a social revolution as[ the women proposed. He wound up by asserting that all such things were the product of evo- lution and that mere mortals could nil . expect to hurry nature. He gave a gentle little hint to the ladies that their manner of receiving the defeat _ ' [of the hill might have much to do iwith the growth of public sentiment [in favor of woman suffrage. . -'"-"'"------ I