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Show !E FAITH IN mm t MrGotvan, Premier of South Wales,. Reaches w York With Wife. PARI) ROUND AFTER TTENDING CORONATION Suffrage Obtains in Home Country, and They Indorse It. . Wjf YORK, July 30. "Any state rcjKotncn vote is u better slate, IllT iiter laws, better homes and finer Wthan a country where the- strong-i strong-i 3 iK'ral force in the world is kept out s is the opinion of the Right able J. S. T. McGowan, premier of . m joath Wales, who is in Now York - to homo from the coronation. ty eui'cn have been voting in South 'S, ' ;since tho federation ten years j t-uaid the premier. iere is no doubt that their in flu- its made a change in our politics Qtt' ij?e for the bettor in every way. .ib ie percentage of women voters " fer than that of men voters with 'i very Australian woman can talk ' intelligently, but she is none womanly for it. About 7n per il cv ftho women's votes is a reflex "husband's vote. I don't mean HIS hfl husbands dictate to their Imiu or that the wives accept their ids' opinions blindly, but, hav-ie hav-ie same interests and tho same Ices, they naturally vote for tho Y"t ion. It "is tho other 2o per cent women's voto that is tho strong Jinfluenco in Australia. KiDoe9 Not Votc Blindly. I Hbcrc a woman votes difforently ft- Bper husband she votes better Hher husboud. A good woman Mot accent, tho 'necessary evil' in S, She docs not sny of a can- a maniocs sometimes 'bo's but wo can't do any bettor.' lis questions. She asks 'Is ho a n; is ho a pood husband, a. good jdoes ho lead a decent private McGowan, who is with the pre-Mbo pre-Mbo is a pronounced suffragist. ;England I was asked if voting pomen less womanly. I laughed. :sre no more womanly women fro than among tho women voters i1jtralia. I have voted in three dflUH' myself. Both my daughters 3!jKmy sons are voters and even po-Br.we po-Br.we aro a vory united family, JjnB'ftre all strong members of tho WlHp&rty. But my sister and lior husband votp different tickets. Hub-bands Hub-bands and wives do not differ on politics poli-tics half so much as on more domestic matters. It makes n vrifo inoro interesting inter-esting to hor husband to bo nblo to dis-cuss dis-cuss public affairs with hor. With ua a man does not have to go to corner saloons for hio politics. Effect of Suffrage "Perhaps tho most market! offoct of woman suffrago is tho attitude of women toward each other. Thev aro so much broader and more sympathetic and loyal. Tho woman's vote has brought better factory laws for women; better roculations for the closlnc or" shops. With us nil shops, except butcher shops, aro obliged to close it 6 o clock and on Saturday at 1 o'clock, and u a holiday comes on Sunday it is celebrated on Monday, so tho workers have nearly thrco days of r.'st. "I often go around in the shops in .Sydney and talk to the cirla to see if the regulations prevailing for them are enforced. They don't know mo, of course, and it is very interesting. J discuss politics with the shopmen sometimes, some-times, "The women of the ,abor partv aro just as much interested in tho party triumph as the mon. You ought to see them got tho women voters out on election day. Why. I've minded a sick babv while the mother cast her ballot, i ,.a wornan sav.s she can't go to the polls because she has no hat or no shoes we lend her ours." And juflt'horc Mr. McGownn took up the song of suffrage again. |