Show TEMPERANCE BY MISS C S BTJBNETT The TV C T TJ I President of the Worlds W C T U Mrs Margaret Bright Lucas England Our National President Miss Frances Willard Evanston 111 Territorial President of Utah Miss C S Burnett Local Unions Ogden Mrs M M I Skewes Ogden Ys Mrs L M i Bailey Salina Miss Belle Regan i Stockton Miss Estella Herbert Park City Mrs C C Whitehead Spring ville Miss E Munger American I Fork Mrs Addie Lee Salt Lake City Miss C S Burnett Murray Young Peoples Union Mr A C Staten Springville Mr J A S Smith The unions of Utah now number ten with a membership of over three hundred hun-dred There are also fifteen juvenila unions with a membership of over sis hundred The W C T B Fourteen years ago this winter a 6 mighty power from God came upon the women of the churches of Ohih and they went out from their pleasant homes into the saloons and barrooms of almost every village town and city in that State to read the Bible sing hymns and offer prayer to God that He would nelp the people to leave oil drinking and to put away the drink houses that tempt men to destruction Tnis new and blessed way of working for Christ spread like wildfire all over the land For the first time In all the worlds history women began to see that by Gods grace they could dos do-s for the protection of their homes and tempted loved ones After about two months spent in visiting the drinkshops the ladies found that the better way to work was by training the children never to touch liquor and persuading all good men to vote against allowing the drinkshops to be opened at all So they formed a society called the Womans Christian Temperance Union or the W C T U Some people say those four letters mean We Come To Unite and We Come To Upset and Well Conquer This Onion All of these meanings are good and help to explain what we are trying to do This society has grown so great that we have now 150000 women who members and over 6000 local unions The National W CT U has a publishing house of its own that sent out last year from Chicago 50000 GOO pages of temperance literature The society has spread to the ends of the earth and the worlds W C T U has local branches in Africa Asia Europe and the islands of the sea It is now the largest society of women ever known and will soon embrace all the world Report of the Temple of Honor given at the Temperance Conferance April 3d SALT LAKE CITY March 29 1888 Miss C S Burnett President IF C T U Respected FriendAs per request I submit herewith a brief summary of our branch of the temperance work The Temple of Honor and Temperance Temper-ance is without doubt the oldest Temperance Tem-perance organization in Utah and is the only one that has held its own and kept in working order for so long a period without going to pieces in the history of this Territory Many others such as the Good Temp lars the Blue Ribbon Brigade and The McKenzie Reform Club have started and existed for a time only to succumb to failure The Temple ot Honor was instituted in this city en the fifth day of December 1877 and is now in its eleventh year That its onward on-ward path has not been strewn with ease many can testify and it has required re-quired labor and much of it to main fain the position we hold today Starting out in the first place with but fifteen charter members and ill poor men at that much labor and zeal were required at their hands to keep afloat and from that day to the present much hard work has been a necessity After making progress for a season it has frequently been set back At about the second year of its existence tho order was reduced to eight members mem-bers but those eight men possessed a determination that brought about desired results and success attended their works till seventy members were numbered in one Temple alone We have perhaps in this city initiated from time to time about three hundn men but they hive either drawn from the ranks or left the city or found themselves too weak to keep the solemn sol-emn obligations taken Today we number about one hundred hun-dred members in Salt Lake City We ought to number many more we yet hope eo to do But very tewof its founders are in its ranks today At the same time we have more than one who owes his present success in life his position in society this financial standing stand-ing ard his blessings and joys of home to ihe Temple of Honor Our ritualistic teachings are such as to elevate mankind man-kind It teaches him to be a better man a better father a better brother a better husband a better neighbor a better citizen and a better church member mem-ber We would that all could live up to its teachings as taught There are in this city four depart me its of the order Salt Lake Temple No1 with fifty members American Temple No3 with twenty members Western Star Council No 1 with twentyfive members Fidelity Social Temple No 1 with twenty members All these departments meet in T mp lars Hall over the Deseret National Bank and all are adding to their ranks and are in a fair way of a large increase in-crease We are under what is termed the jurisdiction or the Grand Temple of Utah and Wyoming which was instituted insti-tuted November 8 1886 The annual meeting of this grand body is to beheld be-held in this city on the second Tuesday in June Our future plans for work will doubtless be as in the kist to move on quietly carefully and mought fully appealing to the better nature of onr fellowman We are in sympathy with all temper Derance organizations although we have not been able to cooperate with them In the general work as much as might be desired the labors of many of us being quite numerous as it is and our own order demanding a continual labor in its behalf Believing I have about taken up the time allotted and r a trusting this report though but brief will give yon a small insight into our labors and with the best of wishes for the cause at large I have the honor to subscribe myself Yours very respectfully E G RAYBOULD Grand Worthy Reo T of H d T Prohibition Oar reasons for prohibitory law are not unlike those of the boy whose friend said Tell me three good reasons why should vote for that law and Ill vote The boy quickly replied 1 To honor God 2 To help the home 3 To bless your native land The man voted for prohibition Let us have this matter fairly debated in our yonng mens debating clubs public schools etc Let those who favor the saloon show how it helps the home etc Let us arouse thought The world is half asleep over this matter while saloons are multiplying W C T TIThe TI-The W C T U held its regular meeting in the M E Church Thursday The President reported eleven new members and one new juvenile society Arrangements for celebrating flower mission day were discussed A committee com-mittee was appointed to arrange for a public meeting Money was appropriated appropri-ated for literature for wall pocket It was decided to have a library pro gramme at next meeting meetingC C S BUBNETT A juvenile temperance society of fifty two members was formed last week in the Twentyfirst Ward by Miss Baker ruperintendont of that department The Ohio Legislature recently passed a law inflicting imprisonment for thirty days and a fine of 25 for selling cigarettes cigar-ettes to boys under sixteen years of ageThe The services at the penitentiary last Sunday were conducted by Rev Soares the London evangelist Today the ladies of the W O T U will have charge They still call for books for the library The very small audience at the Congregational Con-gregational Church on Tuesday evening showed that our people are not much interested in temperance We have seldom sel-dom an opportunity to hear such speakers as Kev Scares Friends of temperance who can do so should go to Ogden April 24th to hear the great temoerance lecturer Walter L Mills of Ohio Ho is one of the finest orators of the age and knows how to handle a subject so as to convict and convince A mass convention will beheld be-held in the morning and in the evening Mr Mills will lecture Go to hear the little giant Never shall my hand or voice be lifted against socalled temperance fanatics If ever cause justified fanaticism the temperance cause does To me there is nothing more disgusting or more disheartening dis-heartening to the cans of humanity than the selfish easeloving luxurious man indulging in dissipation and denouncing de-nouncing temperance fanaticism Rev Phillips Brooks Many of our brightest boys are going wrong Tho glare and glitter of the popular saloon is luring some the card table is catching many painted faces and siren voices are enticing others the worlds amusements and frivolities are causing some to go astray and soon so-on through the catalogue of vices our boys are falling going down down DOWN Who will help to save them 1 SelWere Were it possible for me to speak with a voice so loud as to be heard from the river St Croix to the remotest shores of the Mississippi which bound the territory terri-tory of the United States I would say Friends and fellow citu ns avoid the habitual use of there seducing liquors Ministers of every denomination in the United States aid me with all the weight and influence of your sacred office to save our fellow men from being destroyed by the great destroyer of their lives and souls Df Benjamin Rush in 17S7 |