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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 30

Lunatics

Lunatics.

There has been no public remonstrance against the claim at Dunedin that male lunatics should be taken from asylums to vote (see daily papers, July 14th); but when that privilege was claimed for sane, sensible, pure-minded, industrious, and patriotic female tax-payers, it was denounced as "the greatest devilment ever tried by the Devil in this world!" But the tide is rising; truth must and will prevail; Right, not Might, will win. Politicians can no more prevent women from getting this meed of justice than they can prevent British capitalists from wringing out of this colony the interest which is bleeding it to death, because they have not shown womanly prudence and honour in the affairs of State.

Printed at The Leader Office, Albert Street North,