The Daily News
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alternative: [New Westminster Daily News]
issued: 2015-10-26
issued: 1906-05-19
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nwdn/items/1.0316481/source.json
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note: Uml B WAV22^06 VOLl'MK 1, NUMBER 65. NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., SATURDAY, MA Y 1!), 1906. 10 CENTS PER WEEK 0GRY WOMEN HISS PREMIER OF BRITAIN 5 Declare That They Are Prepar<| to Sacrifice Lives for the Cause of Female Suffr^e and Make Hostile Demonstration 0\ ff Advice to Be Pat ^it. London, May iu.���Escorted by forty members of Parliament, nearly four handr���l women suffragists, representing organizations Croon all parts of the country interviewed Premier Camp- lull-Bannerman at the foreign office today and presented their claims that women be allowed to vote. Only elghl members of the numerous deputations wire allowed to speak, and each was limited to five minutes imt in iii- aggregate of forty minutes _e Premier heard about all there was to bear in favor of female suffrage. Bloody War Threatened. Th. Immediate granting of women's rights was ihe unanimous demand of ihe speakers, some of whom presented tc the Premier their "minimum demands" claiming that immediate legislation bestowing on women the right to vote was necessary and declaring that a promise to take the matter up at the next session of parliament would not satisfy them. One speaker menacingly declare,I ihat the women were prepared to sacrifice their lives in behalf of their demands. The gathering included ladles of title side by side with factory employers. Premier Advises Patience. The premier said he sympathized with the object of the deputation, but asked his visitors to be patient until the government became more united in favor of the extention of the franchise of women. Personally he believed that women were as well qualified as men ami perhaps better to exercise the right to vet- and in his opinion tte deputation had made out a conclusive and irrefutable _ase. Speaking ior others, however, as well as himself. premier pointed out that it was, jessary to preach the virtue of pa-! ..���nee. Only one harm would result if because of his own sympathies and , convictions he gave a pledge regarding the t…
note: Titled The Daily News from 1906-03-06 to 1912-04-24; Westminster Daily News from 1912-04-25 to 1912-12-04; and The New Westminster News from 1912-12-05 to 1914-09-04. Published by The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited from 1903-03-06 to 1912-04-24; and The National Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd. from 1912-04-25 to 1914-09-04.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0316481
language: English
lat: 49.206667
long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster, B.C. : The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text