Show Universal Suffrage in Great Britain At tho general election which will take place in Great Britain and Ireland this fall the new franchise act which is destined to be regarded as the greatest measure of Glad stones Ministry will go in b effect The Tories and other opponents of the bill have denounced it as calculated to debauch the suffrage turn the Government over to a Democracy and unsettle the very foundations I of the empire Perhaps it will but if tho last prediction shall prove to havo been correct cor-rect it will be the people of the empire themselves them-selves who decree the changes that may be made mMr Gladstones bill practically completes I universal suffrage in Great Britain Of men will bo barred out course a great many I reason or another but it will now be for one possible under the laws for almost any sub j of the crown to secure the right of vot ject with some one of the jug on complying conditions It has taken more several easy than fifty years to educate the English people I peo-ple un to this enlIghtened position relative first reform bill was suffrage The to the passed in 18a giving the ballot to the mid Ho classesthat is the bone smew and brains of the nation The bill of 1867 gave > the ballot to tho artisan class and the present pre-sent measure more sweeping than any of the others confers the right of suffrage on all occupants of dwellings whether they I not and without reference to them or Deference own their value bank agents factors and farm servants gamekeepers managers gardeners lodgekeepers miners and mill I workers I j So large an addition to the voting strength of the empire naturally occasions a great ideal i i theeffect that it deal of speculation as to the I will have on the parties but it will be very difficulty to make T anything except Liberals out of the most of tho new voters With so of the working people enfranchised it many will be will not be long before their power exerted in a way which those who have i profited by centuries of injustice and oppression op-pression will not enjoy The revolution one is becoming almost though a peaceful i that was ever earned on as sweepin as any by war Chicago Herald |