Show THE conversion OF MRS SAN DERSON mrs cobden sanderson the english suffragette in a recent lecture recalled what Is perhaps not generally known that up to 1832 women voted in england this was of course a property vote when the reform bill was brought in in she puts it the liberals decided that liberals wore not to be women but only to be men so ft was especially put that person was to have male placed before it that it might bo clear that persons represented only the male portion of the community out of tho general dissatisfaction attending the various limitations of the reform bill grew the chartist movement the working class was determined to assort its own power all sorts of outrages were committed towns wore sacked aad burned there was a large increase in the suffrage but the women were still left out later in 1867 when a now suffrage bill was before the house through the efforts of aho women suffragists and of john stuart mill a petition with signatures moving that the suf farge be extended to women was put before the house of commons in spite odthe help of mill and the aomen were unsuccessful in 1882 came the third reform bill having for its object the granting of the to tho agricultural laborer the wom ans cause was urged again mr gladstone was much opposed to it but the friends of sex equally insisted on a hearing A petition with names was presented it had no effect at all ahe year before last in the north of england a new phase of the movement started A college woman who had taken her degree in law and was not allowed to practice because she was a woman a few factory girls some mill girls began to make street speeches at christmas time they sang and collected money enough to keep on with their work A very little goes far with us n england for we are much more accustomed to speak on street corners than in halls ve stand on a chair or on an orange box then we ring a dinner bell and just keep on until tho audience comes it take long then we begin from town to town the girls went gaining the interest of the people each week more and more in reality bringing once again to a living issue the cause of justice to women finally they came up to london and said that thy were going to convert the city vars sanderson was among the converted |