At the Feet of Gamaliel?

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 11, 1 May 1896, Page 8

At the Feet of Gamaliel?

There are still many men who, so far as their conception of women is concerned, must be considered as survivals of a past age. While regarding women with a kindly eye, they look on them as creatures needing guidance in all their ways. We are led to these sage reflections by the efforts of our good brother the editor of the Prohibiti >nist to teach us the meaning of our Constitution. He tells us plainly that if we do not read it has he does, we ought to alter it. It does not seem to have occurred to our friend that the women who framed a Constitution for a society of nearly a million members might possibly have brains enough to interpret it. We commend this thought to the careful consideration of our brother Editor, and in the meantime we are content to accept the dictum of Frances Willard, Lady Somerset, and our own officials, as to our conditionsof member ship. [At the moment of going to press we notice that in his last issue our brother editor still poses as our preceptor, but explains that his only object was to defend the Editor of the Women’s page. Surely his idea if chivalrous, was Quixotic! Since there had been no attack, there was no need for defence. We never once doubted “ Una's loyalty to the W.C.T.U., but it was our duty to point out that her statements were in conflict with our authorities. The matter should have ended there, hut our friend, gifted with a keen scent for battle, rushed in, not to heal what he supposed to be a breach, but to “ take sides,” which is always a risky thing to do in family affairs. In future let each of us sweep underneath our own door-mat. We shall have quite enough to do.j