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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 24. 1912. 14 TO-DAY'S ARRAKGEM SECOND EDITION WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE, HARRY. down to eat them, but in her own profession and in the Government women were paid less for similar work than rnen' and were under other disadvantages. The first thing women would do when they got the vote would be to place the sexes on an equality in these respects.

Then wan a sreat wave of unrest to' Appointment to Qgeeaj "When your wife drinks a cup of tea," Mr. Acland Baid, you cannot go to the Inland Revenue and get back the duty on that cup of tea." (Laughter.) They had duties of citizenship as great as the duties of men, and 6urely they should have the same Tights of It was an insult to women to' treat them as citizens when the burdens and taxes of citizenship had to be borne and to deny them citizenships privilege and power. Therefore it did not lie with women suffragists to prove special reasons why women should be included in the grant of this elementary right of citizenship, but it lay with their opponents to prove why they should be excluded. It was said that women were unfit for politics. If that weTe true they ought to be made fit; but he did not admit that women were unfit.

Would anyone say that the agricultural labourers, when they were enfranchised in 1884, were more fit for the vote than women were now? Very few of the men then enfranchised had had an elementary school education. The Liberals of that day said "It may be the labourers are not fit for the franchise, hut it is only by trusting them, educating them and giving them responsibility that they can be made fit." It was also said that politics were not fit for women, and that they must be kept out of the dirtv eame. Hiit. t.hnv wr nor keotoutnow. In- day in the labour world.

There could be no progress whilst people were living and working under bad conditions, and, the public were saying (hat the conditions must be improved. It was the same in the case of women. Who is going to pay for "We are going to pay ior it, answered Miss Boyle, as we nave always paid for your freaks and fancies." (Laughter and cheers.) Women stood ior all the humanising elements in the world, id the men who refused to give women a share in forwarding great measures similar to those which women have helped to frame were unfair and uumaniy. iiear, hear.) Men protesten, against, monopolies: let them then dror their sex monopoly and give women an equal share in me preparation of the legislation under wnicn women suffered at present when men made a mess of it. Miss Boyle then read and proposed the resolution.

Mrs. Margaret Cooper, in seconding the resolution, said that vnrv Avfanairtn nf fran chise had left the peonle omitted from such extension worse off than ever. She had taken an active Dart in tha TTolm firth 1ntion. and she was proud to hear that both of the orthodox political parties had said that women were an internal nuisance." In her sneaking and lecturing- ud and down tho vuntrv she found that working men were realising: the different attitude of the Government when it came to deal with men and when it dealt with women. She was going from door to door getting up a petition to ask Mr.

Asquith, if he brings in a minimum wac hill, fn women in it. (Hear, hear.) Could any working man honestly 3ay that women should not dabble in uolitics when of the fourteen million workers who were brought in under the Insurance Act nearly four millions were women? Manv of these might not like provisions of the Act, but they couid not alter or improve it, ana they naa no power to retaliate at an election. SOME QUESTIONS AND REPLIES. At the close of the speeches, ten minutes were allowed for questions, which were answered by Mrs. Cooper or Miss Boyle.

All the questions came from men. Do women wish to have votes on the same terms as men, or will they be satisfied with a vote for a property qualification? We ask for a vote on precisely the same terms as men, and will be quite satisfied with what they receive. Do women want the vote? It has been clearly proved that an enormous number of women want the vote. Resolutions in favour of the vote have been passed by nearly every body of organised women in the kingdom. Do working women want the vote? When the Conservative Government was in power, before militant methods came into operation, the first great petition to Parliament in favour of the vote was signed by 67,000 working women from Lancashire.

This is a proof that working women were in advance of the others. In reply to a question about the action of the women Liberals, it was stated that the women Liberals were 'divided into the Federa tion and the National bodies. The Federation, wnicn the larger number of mem bers, plaoed the suffrage question first at all elections, and would not support a Liberal who was unsound on that question. It was ivoi-' aentally added that in Mr. Asquith's constitu ency four out of the six associations of women workers had asked him to "bring in a franchise measure giving votes for women.

You've been talking ran another Question of men keeping women back in the labour market, and ot undercutting. What do you think of untrained women typists coming in at S5s. a week and ousting skilled men typists earning 2. IO3. a week? The people to blame are the fathers of the girls.

The girls themselves are only too anxious to get out, and they have got to live. But let the fathers look to it that their daughters get a proper training and the standard wage. If ladies get the. vote will they become mere party hacks, or remain independent? Wait and see. We only ask for equal treatment.

The resolution was then put to the meeting. anu carried. THE WEATHER FORECASTS FOR The following forecasts of to-day's weather were issued by tho Meteorological Office last night Lancashire and this Nobth-Wust (No. 7). Moderate or fresh south-westerly to westerly winds fair generally, occasional light showers rather warm.

GENERAL CONDITIONS. A high-nressnre system which extends from the Azores to tho south-west of Europe is moving slowly north-eastwards, and it is probable that our south-eastern districts will remain under its influence for the next day or two. In the north and north-west conditions will be rather less settled. YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER. Mancebstbr University Mktborolooicao Observa tory.

WHrrwOHTH Pahk. June 23. 1912, 9 p.m. Thunderstorms during early morning fine, bright. and warm later.

Barometer rising. TmrraBATPBs (in shade). Sunday. Saturday. Sunrtiv.

Saturday 9a.m. 65'0 65-0 70-8 778 9p.m 80-3 68-0 Lowest 586 57-1 Highest on oiacK amoauaaay ii, Saturday Hit Sunday. SHturrtuv. Sunshine 6b- 20m. llh.

45m. Rainfall 0-29 Sin. Nil. Sunday. 9 a.m.

9 p.m. Humidity, per cent 56 74 RisnMsrEa corrected) Sunday Saturday. a.m. 9 p.TTi 47 90 Saturday. At 9 a.m..- zavo moan At 9 p.m......

29-781 29-754 Wind. A gentle breeze, direction S. by W. average velocity 9 miles an hour. BliM.

Set. Thb 40 a.m. 8 41 p.m. Tbb Moon 3 43 p.m 12 38 a.m. For every ten miles north of Manchester sunset is later by 61 seconds.

LAMP-TIME FOR CYCLISTS TO-DAY 9 41 WEATHER REPORTS FROM HEALTH RESORTS. Aames oi Stations. I Sun- Main-High-, shins, 'all. I est. I Hrs.

Ins. jTamp! Remarks. House ot Commons: Budget Appropriation of the Surplus. 4J'. House of Lords Seal Fisheries (North Manchester Port Sanitary Authority 12 Railway Accident Inquest, Hebden Rr-, Holland-street School, Ancoats: Mr.

Chancery of Lancashire. Before iVw' rw i uie isiiinueiiur, akiw courts Chester, 10 30: In the private r-Preston Atberton v. Dietlin. jj0. Franklyn v.

Franklyn Somerset TrivT-: Armitage v. Armitage. lan v. Bowler. Petitions: Oififr-" Wilkinson; re Joshua Sharnian a-.

iy.V-Limited and Reduced re Settled Estates Act. Causes: R- Reilly, Limited (further Massey v. Massey (further Ferguson v. Ferguson, Liniiu-i consideration); Stohler v. Elwel- t''r' for judgment).

In the private rising of the Court: Re R. J. an infant. FURNITURE TRADE COUNCILLOR PURCELL AXD Lor THREAT. A public meetimr was held wr.i-..

noon in Stevenson Square, men who are on strike in the The chief speaker was Councillor a. a. ceil, tne organiser of the men's union. M. Purcell, referring to the threats by the employers, said the men ih, pect mercy trom the employers.

-v. selves, would give none. mis mauswy nan in tno last 13 mouth ioaviug over a million sterling. men were entitled to a 48 hour 2 a week. Twelve years ago the iv-" were 12s.

a week more than wr bev" the strike, and what was lit-iii- aekrl'! was only the restitution of that nif f. T. employers could do their worst, nn.l in their AssnrMarion wnnlrl i LiK-ni. as he cculd see at present, there wa of the dispute coming to an lmt '1" Hi) MICH il.lll so long as these wished to carry He could assure the emnlovers -Jiif they had made a mistake. TO FLY FROM MAXCHESTKR.

Tho third of the three Avi-oe tu-. to the order of the Government by alters V. Roe and of Manchester, i nw plete, and it has been arrange! to flv it fro. Manchester instead of sendinc it by rail to Royal Aircraft Factorj-. Lieutenant W.

R.N., wiU be the pilot, and he pr' start about the middle of the week, flyiii? 4im. to the aerodrome at Hendon ami theaoa'a Farnborough. Several persons liave offKy their fields gratuitously for Parte to start from, and on his arrival in he will inspect the fields and select suitable. The first of the three bfplanesi delivered about a month ago, and the last week. WESTMACOTT'S LEMON SQUASU.

Best Summer Dnjk. All nMi. 17. Markrt-rtreM. LAIN HAN 1 X.

PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTS. 89, MANCHESTER. Telsphons Va 1T40 dtr WOOLLEY-S BEL1ABLK MEWCIXA1. CltK-KTir)N TF YOUR FRIENDS TOLD YOU XOUR. FRIENDS TOLD YOU the ALBION MILK SULPHUR SOAP Is "Pleasant to use and whitens andsoltens tt Sa-i and I prefer It to any otaer WOOTJ TOU MISS TKYINQ A TABLET? These testimonials from ludles ot tills (witii are on the wrapper, and thousands (horns anl abnili buy the soap.

lilt suits so. many, may It notbawxt) your attention? It Is a toilet luxury. Is dellgiuU use, delicately perfumed, refreshing and beciiiil. British manufacture. Sold by chemists, stores, gioean, Ac.

and at 76, New Oxford-street, London, from win It can be obtained at Bd. per tablet post tree. Eiui-Ilshed OTer 35 years. Announcements of Births, Marriages, anil Deaths nr.A la Mcmcriam notices are charged at the fallowing raw-Two LI5K8 Is. and 6d.

each Additional Line. Xoticea of Thanks ore charged Is. a Line. All such announcements must be authentioated br tha name and address of the sender. Postage Etamri'--postal orders may be 'Bent in payment.

BIRTHS. CROMPTOX. On June 22, at Carripnsta. Sn-innn. to Mr.

and STrs. OBOMFTO.V (nee Adelaide CnrM. B. a son. DODD.

On the 22nd at t-yndale, Spath Bo.id.ft bury, to Mr.f.nd Mrs. W. EIMUXD DODP, aiuashr. ECCLBS. On June 21, at Svkes Holt, near Blackburn, to Mr.

and Mrs. HAROLD ECCLES, a son. HIGSOS. On June 21. at The Cedars, Norwich, th' slot Captain HIOSOX, Xorfolk Regiment, son late F.

S. Higson, Bolicltor. Mancliestcr. nf a OmzLx- M'OLELLiAJfD. 8walwell Monse.

on June 22, to tfu r- C. M. and Mts. M'CLELLAXD, a son. SHAW.

On Juno 21, at The Snug. Birch Homiley, to Mr. and Mrs. ALEXANDER MtiWl SHAW, a eon. MARRIAGES.

BUSSELL OPEX6HAW. On the 22nd ir.f... John's Church, Higher Broughton, by the Rev. oP3 Wood. M.A., vicar of Wix, Essex, JOHN ltlEU-of Wlndlehurst.

High Lane, near ftorkrt- ANNIE OPENSHAW, of 111, Camp-street, Hro'cB--. Manchester. 1 STOREY WRIGHT. On June 19. at IK.

Church. Brompton. London, by the liev. W. if-RONALD ALEXANDER, eldest son of the late STOREY and Mrs.

Storey, of Brock Foraisr- FLORENCE ECKERSLEY. only daufrhter rf Mr. aw Mrs. Frank V7RIGHT, ot Xewbrook, AUiertcn. SUTOLIFFE WATKISf.

On 22nd June, at M- ''HPn, Cliurch, Borth, Cardiganshire, by the B'r. Davies, vicai-J assisted by the Rev. Evan H.D., vicar at Aberayron, and the. Iter. i curate oi Horth, HENRY, eldest son SUTCLIFFE.

of Southwood. Worsley. r.ir to GLADYS MARY WYER, onlv h' Mr. and Mrs. WATKIN, of Cambrian Terras.

Cardiganshire. DEATHS. the 23rd inst JOHN ASirTM. Albans Avenue, Heaton Moor (formerly A-' under-Lyne), eldest son of the late Sairi-l aged 66 yeai-s. -Jinj ARNOLD.

On June 22. at her residence, lo- l--- Crescent. Plymouth Grove. EMILY ARNOi-D- flowers, by request. BAMFORD.

On tho 21st at Fern "-j Avenue. Komiley. ELIZABETH, tho beloved wfe Jamts BAMFORD, in her 77th j-oar. 23rd June. 1912.

JOHN DAUB-. loved husband of Elizabeth Davies. of ii. Mj. Cue, Stretford, and late of 11, Feel OVrra Trafford.

aged 74. Interment Stretfonl Wduesday, 3 30. He died as ho lived, peaw.si'- DCTTON.On the 21st at 24. Trafalw Pendleton. JAMES, the dearly beloved Sbeth DUTTON, of Dutton and Bagot.

M.i"- Interment at St. Catherine's Church, 4 30 Friends kindly accept this (the only) HUMPUREYS--On June 22. the result of an svJ FRANK NEVILL, younger son of "rt HUMPHREYS. Lyndhurst. Eccles, in his totennent aa the Southern Cemetery on Tuesajr-, 4 All inquiries respecting funeral to be sd0 Messrs.

Kendal. Milne and Co. jOVrMOaaiS-On the 21st at B-jf6 i0yl M. JOXES-MORRIS, in her Sfcth j- Jir A- ZW suddenly. th Charles Knight, of 7, Manchester So aM-r Announcement later.

All inquiries rrtpe-- 1 to be adlTressed to Messrs. Kendal. Mile the 21st by nulny tvF the beloved wife of Archibald LONOW. itM OWnVm Road. Manchester, in her 64th viSalars of interment later.

SICTTOB-Sn the 20th LOIS, widow of ttas viCHOLS. of Blackburn. ..,.,3 John's, Iriams-o -m tter of condolence and floral tnbutes he.r Devonsmre-street. Arda-U- In Memobiam in aisauiu. fa loving 1911 Mane! -oeaver aw i-- muaied by his Wife.

Sadly AU letter, should be 'Zi' Tha Manchester Guardian, Limited. rbot he reonjiWe U.BOS uacy Mn.wu. jpj. Printed and Published by JOHN RUSSELL SCO lt8 THE MANCHESTEB OUABDl. J- ter.

Guardian Building. 3. KNICHl, -f SPECIAL MORNING EXPRESS. FIGHTING IN ALBANIA. INSURGENT SUCCESS REPORTED.

Accordine to a semi-official statement pub lished at Athens, says Renter's Agency, the Albanian-insurgents have captured iwo guns from tho Turks and made five Turkish officers T4ia inHiirwnta are said to be JUiBVUClO. continually receiving reinforcements. rr ci prill 111 III IIU I iiJ statement alleges that Greek soldiers are put rt tt win by the Turks in tno nrau line oi uiu r. 1 1 "11 'Jl A however, release any Greeks whom they take prisoners. TURKISH LOSSES.

OBJECT OF NEW RECRUITING REGULATIONS. The Smyrna correspondent of the Kol- nische Zeitune points to the decrease of the local Customs receipts by tiuring the moonth of May as compared with the same neriod last year as showing the great losses which the war is inflicting upon lurkey. He states that during the last two or three K.4-.Y -rwfRrxvrs nf armv and the llUJll. UVbU VU officials of the higher and intermediary grades have been receiving pare or men prs and the non- commissioned officers have been paid regularly. He regards the announced application v.

Ta.w. which contemplates the enrolment of all non-Mahommetans between the ages of 25 and 45, as but a moans TUTCsihla recruits ui laioiiifj sw will be certain many cases to puiunaw their exemption by paying the racltat, which amounts to 4(3. Tins will Dring inuo me exchequer a considerable sum of money, but will also constitute a great hardship to the poorer classes of the population and increase hn mill-ma nminrntinn T.mis leiivillli me fields without hands just at the beginning of harvest time. EIGHT ITALIANS KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION. While a load of live shells was being moved at Tripoli on Saturday one exploded, Reuter's correspondent says, an Italian officer and seven bluejackets wero killed, and three blue jackets wounded.

Tho funeral or the victims took place yesterday with full military honours. POTSDAM AND THE BRITISH VISIT. At Friday's sitting of the Potsdam Muni cipal Council the Chief Burgomaster declared says Reuter's Berlin correspondent, that the decision which the Council arrived at last month not to grant the sum of 900 marks (45) for a civic reception of the members of the British lioyal Institute of Health was not due to political motives. German diplomat, who wished to remain anonymous, had placed the required sum at the disposal of the Council. A MOTOR-ENGINED LINER.

DANISH SHIP SOLD TO HERE BALLIN. The new Danish motor-engined ship Fiona has been bought by Herr Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-America line. Renter's Copenhagen correspondent says the vessel arrived yesterday morning at Kiel, where she was visited by many persons interested in shipbuilding, among them being Lord Pirrie, chairman of the firm of Har-land and Wolff, and Sir William White, and it was after a trial trip there that her purchase was announced. The arrangement pro vides for delivery in a few days. Everything naa been settled tor the riona to make her first voyage to East Asia on behalf of her pre sent owners, tho Danish East Asiatic Com pany, but that firm agreed to the sale of the vessel in view of the great advantage it would be "for the Danish shipbuilding and motor inanufacturing industry that tho first German owned motor-ship had been built in Denmark.

THE SERVICES. The 5th Battalion the Manchester Retriment (T.F.) Wigan, Leigh, and district, lost two officers on baturday by the resignation of Major and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel James Fail-hurst. TT nnrl Pa-nfalr. it Leech. The Colonel got his lieutenancy in the -1-1 "17 1 -r.

1 i asi, voiuuieer looa, nis company in 1896, and field rank in 1906. Captain Leech was appointed second lieutenant in 1900, lieutenant in 1901, and captain in 1905. Lieutenant R. B. Bickerdike, who was commissioned to the East Lancashire Ammunition Column (Blackburn) in February, 1909, and TirOUlOteil ITU IQin ixrns nn Sntiiran n-i nioted to a captaincy in the 1st East Laancashire 73M.nJA 1 TSJJ a unuc xivjyai leiu Anmery.

Captain P. H. French, who has been adjuant of the East Lancashire Divisional Royal Engineers, Old Trafford, Manchester, for over four years, has been selected for the post of District Officer, Royal Engineers, Londonderry. Ireland. Captain French has been connected with the Engineers for over 13 years and has served in British Columbia and Ottawa.

COTTON COMPANIES' REPORTS. Sun Mill Spinning (Oldham). The directors announce the payment of the usual three months' interim dividend of 2s. 6d. per share, which is equal to 10 per cent per annum and requires 1,875.

Rugby Spinning (Ohaddearton). The three months' interim audit shows a satisfactory profit. No interim dividend is being payed. A COUNTRY DIARY. June 22.

It has been asserted that all with two exceptions, swim naturally, the reason being that they use their ordinary methods of nro- gression, which are suitable for aquatic locomo tion for a tune. The exceptions are monkey and man, the one naturally arboreal, the other descended from arboreal stook; these two attempt to climb out of the water by instinctive graspings for branches above, and fail. The statement is a sweeping one, and there ara probably many other exceptions, but it is called to my mind by a letter from a correspondent. When he was fishing in Furness he surprised a pheasant and chicks. The old bird flew across the stream and the chicks, or some of them, lightly after her.

This, according to the line of argument, would show that walking was the ancestral habit of the pheasant; the chicks moved their limbs as if walking, and travelled safely across the water. But the passerine bird, if it falls into water, will swim by flying along the surface, but is drowned when its feathers get water-logged; and some birds, even passerines, have developed a habit of flying under -water. It is too big a question to discuss fully, but it is certainly interesting to hear that the pheasant chicks swum. CHILD COVEHED WJT11 IBBITATION. In Durham, the little child at Mrs.

H. Bant, 134, Brickgatth, Eutafeton Lane', txxxirae oofered with pimples oTer hall1 of ber head and one ear; which be-cSMTei7fnaoh swollen, and then, the pimplea began to suppurate. They thought the child would lose her ess. She ooukl not sleep at nights, and they had to keep a bonnet on her lor meka when she was put to bed. CuHcura Soap and Cuttoura Ointment- healed her In about 3 weeks.

Anvr.1 Harry is-, twelve years, old and a crude utilitarian, judging conduct according to the measure by which it feeds an intense asest for pleasure. He lives, mostly, with a married sister, and when she will no longer put up with his ways goes into residence with his father at a poor man's hotel, where good beds can be had for fourpence, and best beds for sixpence, a night. These forced assumptions of parental authority do not occur often nor extend to a longer period tlian a week. By that time a Sunday school teacher has made inquiries as to his absence from school and persuaded Sister to give him another chance. Teacher is very decent, says Harry, and tells ripping stories sometimes.

Harry does not honour his father, generally regarding him as a person for whom one is not responsible, and on whose account there is no obligation to be concerned. But in a house where there is no one to talk to, ana raeais are haphazard a complacent acquiescence in the existence of a father gives place to resentment of it. The greater freedom to stay out late at night only stings when the means and companions for the enjoyment of it are not within reach. So circumstanced, even teacher would long for the day when he would be old enough to get to work and please himself. The conventions of a home presided over by a respectable married sister are preferable to the Bohemianism of a common lodging-house.

It is, of course, rather infra dig. for the leader of the lads to be compelled to do something towards his keep, by, among other things, cleaning the cellar steps, but if the corners are not skipped and Sisters husband has had a good week at the Docks a bonus of a halfpenny accrues. The task of going errands brings a more certain recompense. At the corner shop, for instance, where they sell roast pork and corned beef, pieces often fall from the scales, and these may easily be appropriated if you are quick. Moreover, a quick taste is always to be had on the wav home, though care is essential.

If after taking a piece of steak pudding and wiping your fingers on your shirt-sleeve you lonra t.lipm'oo clean, it will lead to deduc tions that end in a thrashing and no dinner. Lately, however, the chances of pickings have been lessened an unfortunate sequel to an achievement. A gentleman had distributed tickets for soup to be supplied at the corner shop, and Harry noticed the resemblance of these to the pieces of cardboard sometimes placed in matchboxes. He had just finished the soup and replaced the jug when the shopkeeper came and demanded payment. Punishment was avoided by a strenuous contention that he had found the ticket and did not know that it was invalid, but since the occurrence of this incident they have been very suspicious at the shop and will not allow him to place his hands on the counter.

In everyday life there are many opportunities for doing things, and of all these openings to enjoyment Band of Hope is the widest. You can pull faces at the reciters, causing them to forget and, if it is not done to the extent that brings expulsion, can give back-answers to the young men that keep order. These think they can control Harry's lads, but they are not aware that all of them have signed the pledge twice this session in spite of the rule that members are allowed only one pledge card. In the meetings a teacher sits on either side of Harry. Even so confined he was able to circumvent them until Smith was discovered clumsily copying the trick of fastening a black pin in the toe of your boot and kicking the boy in front.

Now they hit Harry for merely turning round. At last he has gone too far Sister refuses to give him another chance at any price. He did not take the oennv trom the table ne found it on the floor he really did. It must be admitted that he attempted to buttress his case bv denial of a visit to the "By-jo (Bijou Cinema Theatre), and called upon the powers that look specially after boys to cause a wetted forefinger to cut his throat if the statement was not true. None of the lads had ever dared to challenge the potency of this conjuration, and it was a fearful ordeal waiting for something to happen.

And although his belief in stern and awful but undefined beings is shaken, the memory of those moments racking expectancy will deter him from a repetition of defiance. A bitter reflection is, the risk was superfluous. The lady next door had seen him at the Pictures and told Sister. He is sullenly miserable. There is no hope, for he has seen JLeacher talking to the inspector that stops people from being cruel to chil dreii.

The future otters only deprivations. He will no longer on Saturdays see the foot ball matches when the gates are opened after half-time; he will no longer be able to visit feho "By-jo." All possibility is removed of joining the1 Boys' Brigade next winter and going to camp. It is to be day school all the time, and he will wear a blue coat that but-I tons to the chin and a cap like a paper boat tailings. They have decided to send him to a school. G.

M. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A MANCHESTER DOCTOR. CYCLING DOWN A STEEP HILL. On Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs.

William J. Adderley, of Wakefield, were cycling along Kidfield, Hoylandswaine, near Penistone, when at the foot of a very steep hill they found' a cyclist lying unconscious on the road with his machine by his side. Seeing that he was very seriously injured they at once returned and informed the police at Penistone. Dr. A.

C. J. Wilson was called by telephone. He motored to the place, but the unfortunate man died immediately after Dr. Wilson's arrival, his neck being DrOKen.

rle naa witn him a brown, handbag bearing the initials C. G. and his linen was marked C. G. Knight.

The body was removed to the Boardroom of the Penistone Workhouse. From a slip of paper found in the handbag it was ascertained that the unfortunate oyclist was Dr. Charles Graham Knight, of 7, Manchester Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. Dr. Knight came to Manchester with his mother, and sister about two years ago, and began practice at Chorlton-cum-Hardy.

On Saturday evening he finished his surgery work and then left for a ride on his bicycle to Penistone, where he proposed staying over Sunday with an uncle. Dr. Knight was honorary secretary of the Chorlton-cum-Hardy Barjtist Church Lawn Tennis Club, and he took an active interest in other departments of church work. A the Baptist Church services yesterday the Rev. G.

N. Williams made references to the sad event. MOTORIST KILLED AT OLDHAM. STRUCK BY A MANCHESTER TRAMCAR. A distressing motor-car accident happened at Oldham on Saturday.

A- son of Colonel Humphreys, of Eccles was leaning out of a motorcar, and was struck on the head1 by a Manchester tramcar. Dr. Farquhar, of Oldham, was riding in the car with Mr. Humphreys, and gave him every attention, but he died' almost immediately. Mr.

Thomas Fawsett, of Hud-dersneld Road', Oldham, was also in the car. TWO MEN INJURED AT LEEDS. A motor: tri-car going towards Leeds on Saturday endeavoured to pass between fctwo tramcars near Henshaw Lane, Yeadon, and was smashed. Charles Arthur Wilkinson, actor, of Bradford, and Smith Brook, a piece presser, of iiaimon, were taken to the Infirmary in a very serious condition. A labourer named William Smith, aeed 25.

was knocked down. and fatally injured by a motor-oar at Done aster Last night. During the week ending June 22 theTe 1,147 attendances at the Manchester and Salford lor OKin diseases, yuay-street; 182 of these wexe treated in the "light treatment" department and 855 in the ordinary out-patient department. FINE DEMONSTRATION IN MANCHESTER. THE BIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP.

MR. F. P. ACLANDS APPEAL TO LIBERALS. A women's suffrage demonstration was held in Piatt Fields, Manchester, on Saturday afternoon.

The day was gloriously fine, and the precautionary plans for an indoor meeting if rain camo on were not given a thought. There were three platforms, each with a man in the chair and two women speakers, and the principal speech was made by Mr. F. D. Acland, M.P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

Early comers were able to secure garden seats in front of the platforms and to recline at leisure in the warm sunshine. Round them clustered a deep fringe of listeners intent upon the argument and giving it their assent. It may be assumed, without detriment to the significance of the demonstration, that the meetings captured some of the strollers in the park, but if numbers came up with curiosity they stayed with interest, and at the end were clearly not unfriendly to the women's cause, for when the resolution was carried the objectors were an insignificant proportion of the crowd. At the principal meeting there were a few critical but good-humoured interjections, and the charitable laughter they provoked was a good tidemark of the progress the agitation has made. Three or four years ago such interjections would have been taken seriously.

The laughing of them away by the meeting proved them hopelessly out of date. Mr. Acland in his speech maintained that the enfranchisement of women is democratically, essential. The underlying principle of tho Franchise Bill was that votes should not depend on property, or occupation, or lodging, but on the simple fact of personality. Which was woman personality or property Citizenship was to be a man's qualification for a vote.

Women had the same qualification, and should havo tho privilege. lhe organisations takincr rur. in demonstration were the Manchester and Dis iriCt JlederatlOn nf RnfiVnem Societies, the Manchester Society for omens Suffraee. the National TiirtiiKtria! and Professional Women's Snffrao-n Snni'ptv 4-1. Tlr 1 -m i -i wu umen reeaom ieagne, the Men's League for Women's Suffrage, and the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Ciouncii.

The resolution put at the three platforms was This meeting calls upon the House vi vuiuuions to include women the Reform Bill, because by increasing the electorate of men it further increases the disabilities of women citizens." In each caso the resolu tion was carried by a large majority. MR. F. D. ACLAND, M.P.

AN ARGUMENT ADDRESSED TO LIBERALS. At No. 1 platform Mr. W. Royle was in.

the chair, and' the speakers were Mr. F. Acland, M.P., Miss Margaret Ashton, and Mrs. Dicken son. The Chairman said the agitation for the enfranchisement of women represented one of the greatest movements of the time.

They must admit that whether or not they approved of the object'. There Were nvariv annmjA.litfa in our electoral system, and in many respects we iiau me most, antiquated electoral system in Europe. The Government's Franrhi Bill would remedy some of those anomalies, but uueie was no greater anomaly ana no greater scandal than tne withholding of the vote from women. (Hear, hear.) Women were rated and taxed, and they were allowed to take a share in the work of local mihlio. rvrtdirai (a wiio- And that's enough for them), but they were not allowed a Parliamentary vote.

Women were doing a great humanitarian work on town councils and ooards of guardians, and nobody dreamt of repealing the Act which gave women municipal votes. Yet consistency required of those who opposed the grant of the Parliamentary franchise to women that they should deprive them of the municipal vote too. It was not merely a question of an opportunity to vote. The enfranchisement of women would remedy a great injustice, and where there was injustice there could Iievr hfi nrn 1-m a-v Touching on the opportunity for achieving the enfranchisement of women which the Franchise Bill provides, Mr. Royle said he did not think it would be possible to get the House of wiraons to agree 10 eninanclnse all women, and what he suggested was that a well-reasoned amendment should lie prepared, so that all the force in the suffragist movement 6hould be united in its support.

He honed for mtmii wider enfranchisement than the Conciliation jsiii wouia nave given. AN ESSENTIAL PART OF DEMOCRACY. Mr. F. D.

AcLandi said it had been suggested to him that a member of the Government might have withdrawn nis promise to speak at this demonstration because some of the women's suffrage societies had been backing the Labour candidate in the Holmfirth by-election. He would be very glad to welcome Mr. Arnold to the House of Commons (hear, hear), but apparently Mr. Arnold's views with regard to the enfranchisement of women were lees satisfying than those of the Labour candidate to some who thought first of women's snffracrp and they, from, their own point of view, were IJeiiBL-wy juoiiijcu in assisting trie man who supported their purposes in the fullest way. Whether their policy was good or whether the return of the Labour candidate would have had a better effect on tho Franchise Tiin questions of tactics which he was not present to discuss.

He was concerned with a principle and not with momentary tactics. ThTA ViaH been some foundation for the charge that Liberals paid only lip-service to the cause of women's suffrage and that if the militants rose wrnaows reiuseri the cause their suppon, wnen ine time came to vote. So far as he himself was concerned, he wanted to disprove that charge. He believed that the enfranchisement of women was an essential part of democracy. If they examined the ordinary common speech of men and women they would ouuiae naa been won years ago.

When a general election iook piace uiey caueu an appeal to the peonle uufc utai via Aine was an appeal to considerably less than half the people. May I address an argument to the Liberal party? Mr. Acland went on. We are more keen, perhaps, on the abolition of the plural vote than on any other particular matter before the country. The reason is not just because the plural vote happens to act against us in politics at the present time.

Our purpose is not merely based on exoediencv. hrir mv.h rests on the principle, that a vote ehould not uepsuu on piomsri'y, occupation, or lodging or anything at all like that, but on the aimnle ordinary fact of personality. Person iitv orJ not property must be in the minds of those who object to plural voting. Which are women? Are they property or personality? That is what you have to decide if you agree with the abolition of the pluTal vote. But in the Franchise Bill, as it has been introduced, it is only proposed to carry out that principle eo ar as male vuras anj Iv" l.mn" the introduc tion of the bill in that form is rwir.nti,, able ooneidering that the Cabinet is almost equally divided on the subject of women's euf frage, and also that the Liberal party has never put women suffrage before the country as a Xr- ine piedg of the Prime Minister, and we have a full free and fair chance of fiavincr that rhio ciple of citizenship, which we now lay down for the first time, should be extended to women as well as to men do not grumble at that chance.

I think Mr. Asquith ie acting- perfectly democratically in leaving- the decision to the House of Commons and promising that if uie cueciae mat women snail be included the Government will stand or fall in maintaining iiieir inclusion against tne ODDOSi LlOIi Ui LklKJ JUVUQV VI XA1UD. UUOVIS. A CITIZENSHIP BASIS FOR THE FRANCHISE. He did not (he continued) see what justification there could be for excluding' women if the franchise were placed upon the basis of citizen ship.

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booth." (Cheers, and a voice: "Tbats a monstrosity," replied to by another voice which said You know if t.rnA."l Emphatically women. ought to be in the politics of to-day. The big questions of employment, wages, the public health; sanitation, housing, temperance, the re- torm ol the Poor Law, tne proper use land, the treatment of the feeble-minded, and physical training were all questions which directly affected women. Not only had women i just right to take part in pontics uuu uuo needed their help. BETTER THAN THE CONCILIATION BILL.

'Now." Mr. Acland continued, "we have a chance of getting this question on a very high plane. I was sorry when the Conciliation Bui was defeated, but I am bound to confess that that bill was not wholly satisfactory. It seemed to be a good cause, but it was not a really great causo. it wouia nave niraucisw Aure a rvwtninlv a verv limited class of women, ana pernaps not iii.uk Vioaa roncf v-ifjillv rVMIWTTHlKl in the Political matters to which I have referred.

But now that wo have before us the enfrancnisement oi men mi tVij Ti.l.eia nf it.irnKhiri WS Can TUt the ranchi sement of women in a higher and nobler way. (Hear, hear.) I coultl not care anytnmg like so much for a system of suffrage which would Avclurln tho wire of every working man as 'I can do for a svstem which will now cer tainly come before us including every working man's wife. Such a nronosal as that will, I believe, receive the largest amount of support in the House of Commons. I feel far more. enthusiasm for a proposal which will enfran chise women on the ground oi tneir citizenship." Mr.

Acland then proposed the resolu tion. THE WOMAN'S OUTLOOK. Miss Margaret Ashton, who seconded the reso lution said that at tho time of the passing of the Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884 women were working for their freedom as they were now. la 1867 women thought they had secured the veto on the ground that the use of the word man in an Act of Parliament was understood to mean woman as well unless the contrary was specifically stated, and 5,000 women in Man chester and Salford registered themselveis. The revising barrister disallowed their votes, and the judges upheld his decision.

It was not the will of the people but judge-made law which deprived women of the vote. Again, in 1884, when the agricultural labourer was enfranchised, women thought they would get the vote. In those days, aa in these, they hadi the chance of beinfir included bv an amendment-. but there was difficulty with the House of Lords, and Mr. Gladstone lightened the ship by throwing out tho women.

(Laughter.) Women had been waitina1 a erreat, while for justice to be done them, and they ought to get it now it men nad a spark or generosity or justice. (Cheers.) Again their cause had to be framed in an amendment, but they were more secure than in 1884 because of Mr. Asquith's promise that if the amendment were carried it would became an integral Dart of tho bill. The lawi interfered with working women in a way that was disastrous to their rtrosrects of getting on in the world. Men, with the best intentions, had passed Factory Acts and so forth which had the effect of turning women out of the best-paid trades.

Men might work all hours of the day that they like, but women must not (near, near.) women must not work at night. (Hear, hoar.) I am with you who say 'Hear, Miss Ashton on. but what about steam laundries? That's a bad t.Tad work in at night. What about night nursing in iuiauu aayiuiiis i inat is not lnterierea with. It is the well-paid, the skilled trades that they Li" nvii uuu ui.

ititrflsionai women aiso suffered under disabilities because they could iiuu ii caa uren uiiuiu iur lairer opportunities. The resolution affirmed that to increase the numbai' of men electors without mVinrr wnmon votes would, increase the disabilities of women citizens. What it meant was that overv'trma millions more men were eiifra.nTiivi needs had to be attended to hifor be found to consider the needs of women. They had only to look at tho Insurance Act to find examples of this precedence. That measure in sured 9,000,000 men airainst sickiis anw 4,000,000 women.

It also md i benefit payable to the man and riot the woman Ilia iiTipA't? ouu w.o "jjj nay ui recovering it irom a bad husband was by means of a magistrate's order. The cost of illegitimate maternity was all to come out of the women's fund, although it was as much a man's liability as a woman's Such inequalities and injustices would not be possible if women were lvmreKenWi in tu ment. Women only asked for equality of on- rw j. ulild anu. numan rights were just as essential for women as for men Mrs.

Dickenson supported the resolution. PRACTICABLE REFORM. A number of questions were nut to Mr Acland, who, in reply to one, said he did not think tnis ardiament would enfranchise all women. A proposal to make the voting age for men 21 and for women 24 or one to enfranchise all women occupiers and the wives of all male vvmcia naa liivrio lllieiy WJ DO CaiTlCu Another question was Why should women vntA if thev cannot fio.r -xrZ i country as soldiers? Mr. Acland answreH just as patriotic to bear children as to bear AT THE OTHER PLATFORMS.

INTEREST IN THE QUESTION. At the second platform, presided over by Mr. A. Dugdale, the speakers included Miss Margaret Robertson and Miss Gore-Booth. Miss Robertson, in moving the resolution, said that never were their hopes so high and never was the moment so dangerous as at ore- stnt.

If their hopes were dashed this year their defeat would be more serious than any jn the past. One would think that the best onnor- tunity of extending the franchise to women would, be when a Reform Bill for men was in troduoed. But whom did the new Reform Bill propose to enfranchise? It proposed to franchise four millions of men. Not only were women excluded, but they were more absolutely excluded than in any Reform Bili before. In the past, in fact, women had never been specifically excluded.

Judges and lawyers had, said that in a franchise bill a woman was not a person," and by that women had been excluded. For the first time now the word "male" was to be inserted, and -'omen were to bo absolutely excluded from the franchise ior which iiijy nau. oean wonting since 1867 This absoiute" exclusion was the moor, able insult ever offered to women. Hithrto UlUUgU CilW.UUC.U, llUSj UOU DllttreU. that CXCtU sion a certain numoer of men.

Sex had Deen a usaDiiiiy, dui not tne only disability Now all other disabilities were to be swept away uiaquannoa- L1U11 luo jL-aiuamrcubaijr lllUICUlSe. Miss Gore-Booth, in describing "th mentary situation," said that nowadays we were governed by bargains. If one party would do somethinggtor another, that other would do something fdpihem in return. There seemed to be rip idvof Btioking to pledges. She claimed that the country itself was not opposed to women's suffrage.

Men were beginning to recognise that women were human beings like themselves, 'with the same interests anri ties as their own. Parliament had got out of touch with the country, and our laws lasired tllWUg At the third platform the chair was taken Vv -0 tne Acv. A. a. uuimuevr.

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