New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-14


dom Of beer selling which existed before the present
Government restricted it. Against tho present
Government tho Licensed victuallers have. in fact
declared war. Two-thirds Of the defeats inflicted
on Liberal candidates within the last twelyemonth
have been due TO their hostility. Tory candidates
as q rule. have yielded 10 every demand IN the
interest of "tho trade" and Liberal candidates
have either refused. or might as well have
refused 80 profound is the distrust OF them IN tho
public houses Msnys Tory has found himself
borne safely into ST. Stephens by the joint influence
of tho Bible aud Beer. His ready devotion to scotia
rian education and unchecked quor-seiling has hsd
its reward and tho combination bids fair to be ono
Of the most damaging to tho Liberals IN the general
election The truth ~ that the average Libera
loses the support the zeal, of the Alliance foK
because he does not go far enough and is yehemenV
opposed by the beer party because he goes too far
and between the two he has only too good cnahoe
of coming to grief.
L. There is still another body which occupies
position between the Alliance and the Irade-the
Central Association for Stopping tho Sale OF lntox-
eating Liquors on Sunday. This is 80 far an ecolesl
astical movement that it might fifty enough have
been oatalogued with the Lords Day Rest Assocla-
tom the observance of Sunday being the central
idea, and tho shutting up the beer-shopS only
means TO that ond. They agree. of course. in de-
handing that candidates should be required to
promise to vote for stopping the sale of drink on Sun
day. There seems no reason why to the rest of the
week. one half of them might not cOaiesce with the
Alliance and the other half with the Boerselers.
Is. Tho National Society for WOmens Suffrage.
Their progress of late years has been 80 great that
they are able to publish list half column long
of members of the last and candidates for the next
Parliament who have voted or ready 10 vote for
the Mr. Jacob Brghts bill for the removal OF the
electoral disabilities Of women 1t is q little oIni-
nous that Mr. Disraels figures ON this list and
Mr. Gadstone's does not. Only last night lady
of some distinction. wife of Liberal can
didate told me that this was the sole issue
| for which she cared. She hoped Dir. Dis
raeli would win and Mr.. Gladstone be beaten sim
ply because Mr. Disraeli had voted for the women.
while Mr. Gladstone. having once admitted that the
| political condition of women ought to be improved.
had never done a single act in their behalf. am
afraid there is good deal Of this spirit The dyls-
ion lists show that the question has never been made
a party one. Mr.. Jacob Bright is a Liberal, and at
least one Cabinet Minister Mr.. Stansfeld has voted
for the women" The Tories however, are under
stood to be ready TO go i'll for womens suffrage
whenever they can see their way to win by it. Mean
time it is more likely to work to their advantage
than TO that of the Liberals and a good many can
! didates are very hard beset
a. The National and Ladies National Associa-
ton for the Total and Immediate Repeal oil
the Contagious Diseases Acts-not precisely pleas
ant topic, but if it comes next to womens suffrage
| the PLAIN reason is that many Of the women most
concerned in the suffrage movement are equally 20
| in this other business. There is no one question
which has been persistently forced on public
attention or discussed with less restraint, or more
forcibly administered 20 candidates lOC may
have, if You like land here you would have
| il whether YOU liked or not, information as
to the opinions of all the members who have voted
for and against with explanatory and statistical
pamphlets exposing the immortality of the entire
system of the act Ii You lived in England,
Won might find any morning your breakfast-table
| circulars and letters and abstracts of testimony
| about the operation of the act. Whatever may be
Thought of the desrabity of public debate on such
matters and of enlisting young girls IN missionary
efforts for repeal the fact cannot be set aside The
Association is to be heard of every platform, and
NAV boast that it has already brought q good
number of candidates to swallow its pledge.
| L. The Marriage Law Reform Association may as
| well come next. 1t sprang from belief that the
| number of legally manageable women III England
| WAS not large enough and ought to be made larger
by an act to render lawful matrimOny with de-
ceased wifes sister. There plenty of people who
grounds, and especially because the proposal is o
novelty and we have a debate and division every
YEAR in the House Of Commons when the bill
passes it is only to be thrown out by the Lords In
amusements of that sort see no great harm but
am forced to put it down my list of questions for
candidates where it adds to confusion quite great
| enough without it.
16. The Metropolitan Municipal Association, of
which the Honorary Secretary, MrJames Bea is him
self candidate for Westminster, but doubtful of his
election and so urges that everybody else should be
pledged to secure to London as whole the munich
pal institutions enjoyed by the City as part of the
metropolis. AS Mr.. Gladstone approved this scheme,
OF some scheme, in his address, his followers will
have no difficulty in making 1t part of their creed,
though the benefcarie of host Of hoary abuses are
| against it to man.
| H. The National Chamber of Trade urges all con-
stituencies to compel candidates to say whether
they will vote for the Prohibition of Civil Service
Trading and the Amendment of the Adulteration of
| Food act. Whether the latter is desired 10 promote
| or prohibit adulteratiOn is more than l can say.
| The prohibition of civil service trading is shop
keepers movement against cooperative stores. and
has all the energy of impered interests and fear Of
diminished profits ON Its side.
IS. An earnest appeal is made to electors by the
Secretary of the Forest Fund TO vote only for men
who will preserve all other spaces, and especially
| Eppng Forest-a question at once parliamentary,
! administrative, and judicial. Members like Sir
Charles Dixie are among its advocates, and TO the
| poor of great cities il is of no little interest
10 The East India Association desires 10 impress
on everybody the necessity of taking deeper inter
est in Indian afairs-which not 60 members of Par.
| lament can ever be brought TO care anything
| about.
On The British and Foreign Anti-SlayeIy Society