TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4495, 12 August 1893, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

V' The Dispute Among TernE>—:.■ pemnce Women. Intorneoine war is being waged between two parties of ladies in the British Women's Temperance Asso- . ciation. So embittered is the fray jf tbat in the current number of the ; ;j ' Woman'B Herald'—the organ of :../ kdy Henry Somerset's party in the struggle—Mr ' Stead has a sharp article, beginning with tho remark that "from a man's point of viow the ]> chief question is cot whether Lady y Henry is right or Diss Docwra, bat whether either or both of these I disputants can conduct their con Mk troversy lifctpasonable beings." The dispute, Mmead goes on to say, "priuiarilyaroseoutoftbo old, old controversy as to whether the president should be a more rot fainknt, a titled ligure>head,orwhethershewould be the active, energetio loader and ,' chief of ihoassociatioc. Lady Henry I . took her.nffice seriously, and stumps the country lo suoh purpose that she '. is on the platform every other night all the year round. That, of course, does not suit the good people whose !;■'; ideal of a president is a gilded image, Bitting aloof like a Buddah in a josspi' house or a guinea-pig dirsctor in tho y_ boardroom of a bubblo company, and W'\ the Mnga.of controversy thus opened J \ up is almost illimitable, Out of / this great constitu- "■■■/ tional : qu«B. In a conflict of -/ powers wnen the president is iu a minority in her own:cabinet,bul ' believes that she has tho support of a majority in the constituency, which elected.both her and her cabinet, ■■ what is tho right course.to adopt? ' It fa this whioh leads me to .look forward-with such interest to tbo Council meeting, -For if Mrs Stewart and Miss Bocwra are reelected, then : I eball have to reluctantly admit that '>; bo far as the majority of, the Connoil of the British Women's Temperanoe Association are concerned, 'there is some truth iu the taunt that' women have no sense of honor, If the Council should also re-elect Lady Henry, it would be evideniihat iti members of the sense of humor and'of'logic'.' 1 For it is impossible, even, foi\»women.4o:run with the-hare and hunt with the bounds,, ;/A clear ■ conception ;of that fact will'probably Bufflce to save the British women from bringing their Association into coofijsion, and'tnaki ing their sex a laugffing stock by any Buch lame and illogical conclusion, Whatever happens, one or othermuat ; go., Not; even the B.W.T;A. ,can f r , serve both Lady Henry and; Mrs \; gtewart," ..'• ~/ ,-. ■> ',