The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74
Good Measures Passed
Good Measures Passed.
The most valuable Legislative acts of the present Government, in my opinion, are the Electoral Act, which gave the franchise to women the Licensing Amendments (which have established the direct veto, and increased the popular control of the liquor traffic), and the Land for Settlement Acts, which give the State the power to resume land for the people's use.