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...election campaign, Premier Baldwin had promised to grant the franchise to women on equal terms with men.† This was cited in defense of the bill, but the Government, through the mouth of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, stated that it was not yet prepared to grant the reform. The Prime Minister's pledge was, however, confirmed...
...House of Lords Reform is now a slogan of the Conservative Party and undoubtedly this important subject will find a place on the order paper during Mr. Baldwin's administration. With Lord Oxford and Asquith now in the upper House, it is to be presumed that he will exercise his tremendous influence, as leader of the Liberal Party, in deciding how the House of Lords is to be reformed; and by inference his efforts will be directed to giving it the real power of which he formerly divested...
More things are wrought by women than this world dreams of. From abolition down to prohibition many of the great American reforms have been effected in very large part by Eve's daughters, often using non-political instruments. The pen of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the hatchet of Carried Nation, the tongue of Mr. Carrie Chapman Catt--who can estimate the efficacy of these weapons of reform...
...Congress fallen into parsimonious times. Coolidge, the economical, reigns over the flowing waters and rich lands of our country. Congress is bidden reform itself. A sign of this is a new form of Public Buildings Bill...
...until later in life that Mr. Osborne became actively interested in the problems of prison reform. In 1913 he was appointed chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform, which went into a thorough investigation of conditions then prevailing in New York state prisons and elsewhere throughout the country. During this investigation Mr. Osborne spent a week in the Auburn prison as a convict. His report which he issued after his experiences there gained, him nation wide prominence for the first time, and soon after he was appointed Warden of Sing Sing Prison...