THE ELECTIONS?
TO THE EDITOE. tL*£ eleOtiotf is oyer, will y°tf kindly allow me apace for the following remarks, which, I think you Will dgrste wlfeli me, are not altogether but of placd. There has been a great deal said lately about the unwomanliness of women, but what shall be said about the unmanliness of those men who have taken advantage of their poaifipn through the columns of the press, and froth tH* public platform of a Sunday evening, to assail the cHdrUctbr hf re3pectable women, whoso only sin has been to differ in opinion from their opponents, and to have the courage of those opinions ? The Temperance Party,have only themselves to blame for their defeat, inasmuch as while they Lave been carrying on a warfare against strong drink, they forgot there was such a thing as intemperance in speech. All I can say is if the Women's Social and Political League had descended to the personalities and tactics of their opponents they would have deserved 'all the mud that has boon thrown at them, but as it is they still claim the right to be called respectable wdihen,* not would-bo respectables.—l am, &c.. One ov Them. December Bth, 1896.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2998, 9 December 1896, Page 3
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200THE ELECTIONS? New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2998, 9 December 1896, Page 3
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