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municipal elections, and also to procure for them the right to have a
political vote. In addition to the Norwegian Woman’s-question
Union, there is a number of women’s unions for special objects,
such as the Well-being of the Home («Hjemmenes vel»), the
temperance cause, cookery classes in schools, etc. There are two women’s
suffrage unions, with several local branches; and a number of
papers and periodicals are edited by women, working especially
in the interests of women. On the whole it may be said that the
Norwegian woman, in social, moral, intellectual and financial
matters, occupies a high position. This is evident too, in their daily
life and intercourse with the opposite sex.
THE PEACE QUESTION.
It was in 1889 that the initiative of the French deputy,
Frédéric Passy, and Randal Cremer. M. P., with regard to
international arbitration and peace conferences of representatives from
the various countries, was realised by the first conference in
Paris. Although Norway was not represented at this first
meeting, in which delegates from only 7 countries took part, the
idea on which these conferences are based and in the course
of time have become established and important institutions, was
in reality well advanced in Norway. This is sufficiently apparent
from the fact that on the 5th March, 1890, the Storthing agreed
on an address to the king, in which, he is requested, in
pursuance of the Norwegian fundamental law § 26, «to endeavour
to conclude agreements with foreign powers relative to the
settlement by arbitration of differences that might arise between
Norway and those powers.» In the same year was formed the
Norwegian branch of the inter-parliamentarian league, to which
a majority of the Storthing members have always belonged,
and the branch immediately sent delegates to take part in the
second inter-parliamentarian Peace Conference in London, in 1890.
Since then, members of Norway’s Storthing have never been
absent from the peace conferences, their number being generally
three. The Storthing has also, in a decided manner, shown
its full adherence to the peace question by its official grants
towards it. It has always voted travelling expenses for the
deputies from the Norwegian section of the international league
for peace and arbitration. Since 1897, it has, moreover, voted
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