| Show WHITE RAT INVADES ADES ADESt W C T U MEETINGS SACRED PRECINCTS Incident Enlivens Mrs Mary Arraignment of df f Prejudice dice Spirited Address Feature of Opening Ses Session Session Session sion of State Convention A tame white rat came near causing a panic among the prohibitionists last night at the Central Christian church chuich but a prohibitive movement nt on the he part of one woman excluded the from the W C T U annual conven convention convention convention tion and the cause of temperance was allowed to flourish Just as Mrs Mary Sibbitt the gifted speaker national worker for the temperance cause caus was holding forth on the dangers dang rs of prejudice prejudice prejudice dice Mrs E E Shepard the state president gave a sort of suppressed scream and made wild gestures at a large white rat which had ventured too near the white while When hen the ensuing commotion subsided the th whole affair was ascribed to prejudice I Mrs Sibbitt who is a minister of the Quaker church spoke with a great deal of force and feeling for the cause in which she says she sile is quite new hav having ing been a temperance worker corker only about thirty years She took for a text Take Ye y Away A ay the Stone and she proceeded to enumerate the stones which are today in the way ay r of f the cause of temperance and which are being rapidly taken away The first she spoke poke i of as prejudice recalling the time not so long ago when the th doors of the orthodox churches were wert closed speakers All this Is changed today toda said the speaker aker The churches on every nand nan welcome the temperance cause and this is s be because because because cause the church members no longer own property which they rent for sa saloons saloons saloons loons and other Immoral places This is not the only kind of prejudice how haw however however ever for I remember well how prejudiced prejudiced prejudiced diced I was against the prohibition movement coming by any channel ex ox except x cent the Republican channel and now I think perhaps s we are arc to get it through the Democratic channel chann l after all aU But now I say let it come in whatever way it will my prejudices are gone and Ill welcome it Jt Mrs Sibbitt spoke heartily in com corn commendation commendation of Carrie Nation and said she had done more for the he temperance cause than any an other living livin being She touched on the red light question too but held that the district should be moved either 1000 miles from irom here or else stuck under the noses of f the peo people people plc who tolerate it She said she had ha often thought that if the man who voted for a saloon and brothel brohel could have a saloon on either side of him and amI anda amIa a brothel opposite his front door he would soon change his mini If Salt Lake has saloons aloon said ald the speaker I think she needs wak waking waking waking ing up and an I wish for some som few who are strong enough tb give ive this city such a shock as Kansas got when Car Carrie Carrie Carne rie ne Nation went out with her hatchet brigade God did not call me to work In her way wa but I would never u ver put a straw In her path and I would help her in every way for the cause caus for which we labor And I want to whis whisper whisper whisper per one thing to you Within Vi thin seven een days after the saloons were closed in Wichita and within six days dars after they were closed in Kansas City the broth brothels brothels brothels els were closed also The saloon aloon is only the hotbed for the gambling gam Ing hells heUs and the houses of vice If you OU women who have the ballot banot will you can show the business men of your community that the license does not pay one small part of the real expense of f keeping The saloons open You Tou can show the proved statistics from Boston with her high license compared with Portland Me with her prohibition for very every of the population Boston has arrests for drunkenness and Portland has 84 Jt It costs Boston 53 3 per capita to police the city and Portland It costs cots Boston 29 cents per capita for Jails and Portland 2 cents For every population Massachusetts has 33 crim criminals crimInals criminals I in the penitentiary and Maine has 13 I have seen the Jails of Kansas filled with corn instead of men and if you people of Utah will come there I will show you jail doors standing wide open since prohibition came cain to Kansas You women with the ballot let me metell metell tell you the prayer you say at home is heard by your family and the prayer you OU say at church js s heard hearl by your church members but the prayer you say at the ballot box ox next month is heard throughout your state and your country Mrs Sibbitt Sib bitt is to give ie an address on on the political situation on nn n Sunday even evec evening ing In but the place will vill be announced later She is on her return trip from a summer spent on the coast where she has made numerous addresses addre Ses in the cause of temperance I IThe J The convention will inset maet t for fer business bUsine s this morning at when reports cf the officers and the local presidents will willbe willbe willbe be given and a paper ivill be read by Mrs A L Young of Jf the juvenile court courtIn courtIn courtIn In the afternoon addresses will wUl be given gIven given en by L L Fuller of the League and others and this evening evenin a grand gold medal contest contat cont st of all the orators who have won silver medals in inthe inthe inthe the temperance contests will be held at the same place Mrs Irs Shepard appointed committees last evening as follows Credentials Mrs H W Smith Mrs A H Adams and Mrs Lyman Press Mrs W F Core Cor Mrs Mary Iary Sumner and nd Miss Jennie Simons Resolutions Mrs H W Pratt of Louise Frost of Ephraim and Miss Josephine S of Provo Auditing Mrs J S Gordon G Miss Freda Dressell and Mrs J F Hobbs all aU of Ogden Today Toda will be an allday session with witha a luncheon served sered to the delegates at atthe atthe atthe the church during the noon hour |
