WOMENS POLITICAL LEAGUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10124, 6 May 1896, Page 3

WOMENS POLITICAL LEAGUE.

A meeting of the Women's Political League whs held yesterday- afternoon, "in the Social Hall of the Y.M.C.A. Rooms. Mrs. Daldy presided, and about twelve members were present. After the confirmation of the previous meeting's minutes, Mrs. Daldy, who attended (lie late National Council of Women at Cliristchureh, ua the League's delegate, gave an account tf her visit, and read soveral extracts from Southern papers eulogistic of tho manner in which the proceedings had been conducted. With regard to the much-dis-cussed resolution passed advocating the 'economic independence" of women, Mrs Daldy thought it certainly might have bee.i worded slightly different. to better express toe meaning intended. Whin a man went to the altar he vowed to endow his wife with all his worldly goods, and when only naif was now asked lor her a hubbub was raised. If a woman could not share the nusband's purse she was not fit to share his : imuour. Shakespore had Raid "who steals my i purse steals trash," but nowadays that article I wined to be regarded in a very different i ij<lit. What tho resolution really meallt was ; ■ : i»t the wife should be entitled to her share ! of die purse; not to bpond it on herself, but tut she should also have her share of the ~■ punsibililies as well as the man. Speaking ,; the Chinese question and the view the : ~,.„oil took of it, Mrs. Daldy said as a mat,r of principle she could not support their ! i-.ilijrion from the colony. ■ 1 Mi-.s Summers said the Council surely . .-Mid not have been in possession of the • ~-cssary information the subject when they j [ M) k the stand they did, and she instanced , 1 mwlcK in other colonies which of her own i '. ..mvk-dgc were seriously damaged by the 'vim. Chapman thought there was' a more important side to the question than tne political one, and that was the moral side. Mr?. Daldy suggested that members should look into the subject as they might be called upon to petition Parliament on the matter, and would therefore require to know all 1 ''"rjaper on " Women as Citizens" was to I i.i.v; b«U delivered, but was held over till a ! f.,i me meeting, owing to the large amount ot I other business.