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Introduction.
III.
every part of the Colony to gain public sympathy for this great reform, and to bring pressure to bear on members of Parliament.
Yet in his book, "State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand," Mr. Reeves says:
"So one fine morning of September, 1893, the women of New Zealand woke up and found themselves enfranchised. The privilege was theirs, given freely and spontaneously in the easiest and most unexpected manner in the world by male politicians … No franchise leagues had fought the fight year after year. …"
How utterly at variance with the real facts these statements are the readers of this book will be able to judge.
