Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-05-28 | Page 9 | Temperance is Not Welcomed in London

TEMPERANCE IS NOT I WElCOMED IN LONDON W. W Writer riter in Daily Sketch Says White Badge Brigade I Is Butting In LONDO LONDON May 28 Take Take it from tom Ra- Ra Ra Rachel chel Ferguson who writes for the Dally Daily Sketch Americans Americana are re all right and Eng English Eng Eng- Eng I lish Ish women like them But like Cousin Egbert of old England can only be push pushed d Just just so far tar I I I have always liked Americans Rachel Rachel Ra Ra- chel writes They boss one so naively whether they are arranging our law and order for us or informing the world how they ther showed us the way to win the war And we let them have the run of or their back teeth at our expense e. e Even their meddling Is amusing After which subtle Introduction Rachel comes to the point But their little are getting getting getting get get- I ting nearer and md nearer the British knuckle she says America has bas gone dry and a handful I of or women came to England to arrange a athin athin athin thin time for us as aswell well And even that's amusing I dont don't believe we shall ever go dry I EFFECT ON MEN The point that falls fails to amuse amuse me In regard to the action of or these American women teetotalers Is the effect their dribbling r me mer In our r politics Cl a and social oc q questions questions ques ques- Is likely to have upon o our men folk whose prejudices we English women have broken down down- so slowly and imperfectly imperfectly im Im- perfectly and with much suffering of ot mind and body in the past Irresponsible strangers In our midst if tr these white badge women think they here have Tn discovered iS the evils II of drink let t us use i remind them of one or two matters i r i First that the problem problem- was driven home from every street corner during I the suffrage agitation second that the I temperance movement as a whole was brought Into ridicule by an American woman oman that smashing saloon-smashing ol old warhorse warhorse war- war horse the late Carrie Nation third that when the women of or Australia got the vote the first reform they effected was the closing losing of or the public houses on polling pollIng poll- poll Ing InS day QUITE UNNECESSARY I would ask them to reflect that we En English lIsh women having the th vote and the and the right to a seat in parliament If Ir we can win it ft are for the present In a position requiring for us Judgment ent tact and tolerance tolerance tol tol- erance and t that being e on probation n nto as lawmakers In of or the th world we must step v very ry delicately indeed We OW simply cannot stand transAtlantic transAtlantic trans trans- Atlantic s You Americans have done your est eat by us and us-and and I still like lIte you But it was quite unnecessary to send lend your our women women women wom wom- en en over here You sent your whisky whisk That ought to have been enough tot fox anybody anybody I