New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-05
WOMAN AND TEMPERANCE.

ECwleTs d ellis have just issued, In two neat %
cent pamphlets, The Whole Worlds Temperance
" Convention" held at Metropolitan Hall on the LIST
and I'd ult aud Proceedings of the WOmans Rights
Convention held at the Broadway Tabernacle in the
" City of New-York, on the 9th and 9TH sept 1913.
The former gives the proceedings of the preliminary
meeting at the Brick Church Chapel last May the call
of the Whole Worlds Convention with the signatures
the meeting Of the friends of Womans Rights at the
Tabernacle last May, at which this ca was resolved
on, Mr.. Carsons exposition of the So Carson League
&c, &C. with appended essays by DR.. r. I Trail and
H. Greeley on the Temperance Reformation and the
Nature OfAcoholc Liquors, and list Of Delegates and
Societies represented in the Whole Worlds Conven-
tion-the whole covering II large octave pages The
'Womans Rights Convention is quite fully reported,
including the riots by which it interrupted and
finally brought TO a close. Ii covers 96 pages.
These handsome pamphlets should be not merely
read but preserved and bound. Our children viii re-
with interest 10 documentary evidence tina; Con
yention of capable, reputable truthseekng men and
women annoyed AID disturbed throughout the
ever ngs Of its twodays session by decenry dressed
and not unmanageaby drunk rowdes, because It dared
to consider the Rights Of Woman 10 voice in the dis
posal of her hardearned property, in framing and
modifying the laws whereby she is governed and choos
ing the magistrates by whom she must be judged and
in determining who shall have the custody and guild
ance of her own child. On all these points the men
and women assembled in the Tabernacle were willing
TO be convinced Of their error if there we're
willing TO surrender their own platform AMI their
own audience for half the time any decent rational
advocates of positions adverse to their own if they
might thus be permitted without annoyance TO set
in, nj At thpir advaE-
tsed time their own profound convictions d.rng the
other half of the time But this denied them, ami
their meeting was Kissed booted and yelled 10 pre-
mature close and ninetenths OF the Commercial and
nearly or quite al the Religious Press had no word
Of hearty for the mscresnts who thus ramPed
down tie rights of Free Thought and Free Speech
The other pamphlet narrstes the history Of one
of the mos; important movements yet made in the
progress of the Temperance Cause-namey. the full
recognition OF Woman as the compstriot aud help
meet of Man in the arduOus work Of rescuing the Iu
msu Race from tie destructive sorceries of Alcoholic
poison Nearly or quite half the speakers at the Whole
Worlds Temperance Convention were women a. were
portion Of the officers and Of tie committees and
the arguments OF women as vel Is men are reported
in o condensed form in this pamphlet. Let the public
read these arguments. end then Judge those who
n lew Gays dlttTNard' VIII ciAMOE tna c9if-t
ePthets suppressed tie voice OF noble cad
pureheaIted woman. al undoubtei delegate 20 their
body and drove her with insult from their Platform.
Read what Woman SAYS for Temperance in this pampL
let. and then Judge how ardent be the ioye Of h
cause in the souls oi those who wasted hours PEE
vent her speaking them few minutes beesuse (as
they phrssed it eOaHi0a usage does not admit her
RICH: to the platform l. has long enough been fash
ionsble usage for Woman TO circulate tie Rine-cap
and invite Man to partake OF its seductive contents
suppose she has resolved TO do Iii. no longer bur ye
her best efforts instead TO the work Of persaalug
net to drink-oEsht Temperance mea 20 be orenost ID
defeating this change