Voices and Votes

A Tribute to Women's Suffrage

Case 3 - Contemporary Temperance Periodicals 2

The temperance standard, good templar record & prohibition advocate. Dunedin: J. Wilkie & Co., Oct. 2, 1893.

The temperance standard, good templar record & prohibition advocate. Dunedin: J. Wilkie & Co., Oct. 2, 1893.

The Temperance standard and its predecessor the Temperance herald were in circulation in Dunedin and throughout New Zealand for 24 years. Both were published by the fervent Dunedin prohibitionist Donald Charles Cameron, with John Jago, temperance reformer, businessman, and manager of the Evening Star, as honorary editor.

On display is the issue immediately following the women’s suffrage vote, in which Jago congratulates the suffragists upon their success, acknowledges the contribution of the Order of Good Templars, and hope that the vote will aid the temperance movement.

The temperance standard, good templar record & prohibition advocate. Dunedin: J. Wilkie & Co., Oct. 2, 1893.

The temperance standard, good templar record & prohibition advocate. Dunedin: J. Wilkie & Co., Oct. 2, 1893.
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The voice. Wellington: Edwards, Russell & Co., Nov. 30, 1896.

The voice. Wellington: Edwards, Russell & Co., Nov. 30, 1896.

The voice (previously The people’s voice) was a Wellington-based temperance periodical in circulation in the 1890s.

The issue of The voice on display appeared three years after the suffrage vote and immediately prior to the 1896 general election. A didactic piece in the form of a ‘women’s political catechism’ serves as a timely reminder as to which candidates supported and opposed the women’s franchise. It also chides the Liberal government for its dearth of social reform, and encourages women to cast their votes for temperance candidates.

The voice. Wellington: Edwards, Russell & Co., Nov. 30, 1896.

The voice. Wellington: Edwards, Russell & Co., Nov. 30, 1896.
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