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2281 The Present Truth, vol. 12 June 25, 1896, page 404 paragraph 1
… Australia voted the wrong way. It would seem there were more level-headed ones than the religio-political leaders there had counted on. It is to be hoped that …
2282 The Present Truth, vol. 12 July 9, 1896, page 437 paragraph 14
… of votes from this body. There is no concealing the fact that if organised for political purposes the Romanists would control the situation. They constitute …
2283 The Present Truth, vol. 12 July 16, 1896, page 464 paragraph 13
… to vote for certain candidates. The result, however, was that their arrogance was resented and some Catholic secular organs plainly told the priests to attend …
2284 The Present Truth, vol. 12 July 23, 1896, page 478 paragraph 1
-At Huddersfield 2,725 persons last week voted in favour of Sunday trams and 4,154 against.
2285 The Present Truth, vol. 12 July 23, 1896, page 478 paragraph 5
-Spain, which has already spent ?20,000,000 in fighting the Cuban reb to, has voted another like amount to continue the campaign, which seems no nearer an end than when it began.
2286 The Present Truth, vol. 12 September 10, 1896, page 590 paragraph 9
… a vote of fifteen to ten the Transvaal Volksraad has passed a bill totally prohibiting the sale of liquor to natives from January 1 next. The law has been urgently …
2287 The Present Truth, vol. 12 September 10, 1896, page 592 paragraph 1
By a majority of one, the casting vote, the Manchester City Council last week decided not to order the prosecution of barbers for Sunday work.
2288 The Present Truth, vol. 12 September 24, 1896, page 622 paragraph 7
-Several new expeditions are being planned to get to the North Pole, and Belgium has just voted to send one to the Antarctic regions.
2289 The Present Truth, vol. 12 September 24, 1896, page 622 paragraph 10
-The Trades Union Congress voted to demand of Parliament that the age of child labour should be raised to fifteen years, and of night labour to eighteen years.
2290 The Present Truth, vol. 12 October 8, 1896, page 654 paragraph 9
-Japan has now a large navy, and the diet has voted to increase it very materially, the greater number of ships to be made in Japan.
2291 The Present Truth, vol. 12 October 15, 1896, page 657 paragraph 4
… the votes at his command, or the swords which the votes represent. He knows how to go to work because he fights with carnal weapons for merely carnal reformation …
2292 The Present Truth, vol. 12 October 29, 1896, page 704 paragraph 3
The French Government, though not always on good terms with Clericalism at home, votes over half a million francs every year for religious establishments in the East, where the clergy are avowed agents of French political interests.
2293 The Present Truth, vol. 12 November 19, 1896, page 738 paragraph 7
… , with vote or voice, for war in many lands,-they are a mockery. In the mouths of those who demand of law-making powers to enact religious dogma into law they are …
2294 The Present Truth, vol. 12 November 19, 1896, page 752 paragraph 4
… and vote for free silver; while on the other hand the other party are sure that the man who is not heart and soul committed to the gold standard is an anarchist …
2295 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 10, 1896, page 798 paragraph 4
-A proposition to open the public library of Inverness on Sundays, has been defeated by only three votes.
2296 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 24, 1896, page 822 paragraph 3
… expenditure votes have increased with increasing population, our military and naval expenditure votes have increased by leaps and bounds.
2297 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 31, 1896, page 848 paragraph 7
… which voted the last shilling must inevitably be the victor....
2298 The Present Truth, vol. 13 February 11, 1897, page 94 paragraph 13
—A Bill to give women the vote passed its second reading in the Commons last week. It is generally thought that other measures will crowd it out, and that it will not get into the committee stage.
2299 The Present Truth, vol. 13 April 15, 1897, page 240 paragraph 13
… has voted for repeal, but so far the higher authorities have not yielded. Now the Federal Council wishes to pass naval budgets which the Reichstag has thrown …
2300 The Present Truth, vol. 13 April 22, 1897, page 256 paragraph 14
… -third vote before it becomes binding upon Great Britain or the United States.