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Companions in Disgrace
Convicts and Women kindly note,
Are not allowed to have the vote;
The difference between the two
I will now indicate to you.

When once the harmful man of crime,
In Wormwood Scrubbs has done his time,
He at the poll can…

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IS THIS RIGHT?

FRANCHISE

THE OPEN MARKET

Woman. Why can't I have an umbrella too?
Voter. You can't. You ought to stop at home.
Woman. Stop at home indeed! I have my Living to earn.

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Mother. "Please, Mr. Burns, my baby ain't fit to be vaccinated."
John Burns. "No good for you to come here. Where's your husband?"
Mother. "At sea."
John Burns. "Well, be off with you, mothers don't count as parents."

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W. Rabbit, Esq. (nervously): “The Duchess is Asking for Cake.”
British lion: “That’s why she won’t get any!”
W. R., Esq.: “But this young lady has not asked for any.”
British lion: “Ladies as asks shan’t have, and ladies as don’t ask don’t…

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Young New Zealand: Young New Zealand: “Oh Grandpa!
What a funny old machine. Why don’t
you get one like mine?”
MALE ELECTORS ONLY
VOTE WOMENS MUNICIPAL
MALE AND FEMALE
EQUAL ELECTORAL RIGHTS

[Image: Postcard, printed, cardboard, black text…

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FINLAND NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIA NORWAY
Miss Jane Bell: “Give me a bit of your Franchise
Cake, Johnnie.”
Master Johnnie Bull: “It wouldn’t be good for you.”
Miss Jane Bull: “How can you tell if you won’t let
me try it? It doesn’t hurt those other…

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Lady Canvasser. Have you a vote, Mr. Brown?
Loafer. ‘Course I got a vote, and shall have so
long as my wife takes in washing.

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