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3 Women's Suffrage J. 1 (1872)

handle is hein.journals/wmsuffpr3 and id is 1 raw text is: WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE JOURNAL. EDITED Dy LTDIA E. BECKER. VoL. ir.-No. 23. PUBLiSHED MONTHLY. MANCHESTER, JANUARY 1, 1872. PRICE ONE PENNY. CIontents: Leading Article by the Editor. Legal Rights of Mothers. Petitions to the House of Commons. Public Meetings: England -Birmingham, Barnet, Fal- Married Women's Right to earn their own living. Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrago:- mouth, Truro, Liskeard, Helston, Wuerdle and K.illing a Woman, versus Street Robbery. Treasurer's Report for December. Wardle Liberal Association, Oldham, Queensbury, Censured but not Punished. Committee for Amending the Law in points wherein it Northallerton, Masham, Malton. Scotland-Dum. National Society for Women's Suffrage:- is Injurious to Women. fries, Portpatrick, Stirling, St. Andrews. List of Subscriptions. List of Subscriptions for December. Glasgow Athernum Lectures: -Lecture by Miss Becker. Association for the Progressive Emancipation of Woman. Married Women's Property: - A Grave Question for Englishwomen. List of Committe. List of Subscriptions for December. THE year that has just closed has b'een marked by a steady advance in the progress of the movement for removing the electoral disabilities of women. The number of Parliamentary adherents has been augmented, the weight of influential support among leaders in the House of Commons has increased, while the adverse influence has diminished, and Mr. BOUVERIE, who leads the oppo- sition to the Bill in the House of Commons, can no longer calculate on the active co-operation of the head of a professedly Liberal Government in his ob§truction to a measure of enfranchisement. The increase of the strength of the movement through- out the country may be computed by observing that in 1870 there were one hundred constituencies clearly ranged on the side of the measure, and in 1871 the number is raised to one hundred and twenty-five; that in 1870 there were forty-two petitions from public meetings and corporate bodies in favour of the Bill, and in 1871 seventy-five ; that the total number of signatures to petitions in 1870 was 134,561, and in 1871, 186,976; that the number of public meetings held to advocate the prin- ciple, recorded in the volume of this Journal for 1870, was forty-two, while this year the same record gives one hundred and twenty-six; and that the number of com- mittees in connection with the National Society for Women's Suffrage was on the first of January 1870, sixteen, and on the first of January instant it is forty- eight. Not only is the number of local centres and committees increasing, but the coherence and force of the organisation have been strengthened by the formation in London of a Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, which, without in any way interfering with the freedom or the action of the local centres and affiliated committees, will, as was stated by one of the speakers at the Manchester Conference, be the instrument by which the public opinion created in the provinces can be brought efficiently to bear upon the House of Commons. Mr. JACOB BRIGHT stated on that occasion that the object of the Central Committee is solely, that we might, as it were, pour all our divergent streams into it for particular work on particular occasions, that having the Bill in hand in the House of Commons, he had greatly felt the necessity for such a thing behind him ; he therefore strongly urged that the forces should be united in that way for that particular object. It will be seen by reference to the advertisement which appears in another column, that all the provincial centres, and almost all the existing committees, have already con- nected themselves with the Central Committee, and the adhesion of others, bmost of which are recently formed, will probably speedily follow. The constitution of the Central Committee is of the most broadly liberal and compre- hensive character. The Executive will be elected at a general meeting to be held on the seventeenth of this month, and besides the permanent members then to be chosen it will include all members of all executive, coin- mittees connecting themselves with it throughout the country, and such single delegates as each Association may, for special or general purposes, appoint to represent it on the committee. Thus each local committee will be a part of the Central Committee, and will assist in directing its movements, but so far as its own action and the disposal of its own funds are concerned, it will not be shackled by anything done in London, but will be perfectly free to do .whatever it had done before. An Association formed on such a basis, is calculated both to give and to receive im- pulses, which will tend to rouse action and promote and direct united efforts, and from these efforts we may reasonably expect a great development of strength in the movement during the coming year. Turning from our own to other countries we have to notQ that women in America are now going through that phase of the movement which we experienced in 1808, when, under a new measure for the Representation of the people, women believed themselves enfranchised, and

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