STEAD AND WOMEN.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 69, 5 July 1912, Page 3

STEAD AND WOMEN.

In the d"ath of William T. Stead the women of the whole world have lost a loyal friend and an earnest and devoted worker for the largest and fullest opportunities for women. In New York and in London he frequently refused to attend meetings or dinners for men only, and he also disapproved of affairs for women only, hut he evidently died making an exception to his rule. He did believe that a lifeboat leaving a sinking vessel was a proper placo for women only, and that tho deck of the doomed ship was the place for men only. So ho wont down with tho Titanic. "Everything that divides the sexes," ho said at a meeting once in America, ''is bad, and exclusively male thing 3 are- more detestable to mo than those that are exclusively fomalo. Male clubs, male legislatures, and male barracks are all bad, and if you women make your chiba exclusively female,

I you will make them inhuman, antisocial, and dangerous. 1 nover join a •club that does not admit women as members or guests, and I never address a meeting to which women are not admitted. It is necessary to mi>ife ,a 1 stand in these small things, and it in only when you do so that you realise .that in all places except those of luxury or ornament men have all tho best seats and mean to keep them." '~!"■■