Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-16 | Page 8 | Salt Lake's Intemperance Denounced before W. C. T. U.

Stilt Salt S lt Lakes Intemperance ce De Denounced Before W C T U 1 Condition Coalition ion of vC and nd the Need Need lf f Measures in the Local Temperance tt I formed the subject ef of a 8 paper I read yesterday ye by Mr Mrs Clarence Cence T Brown BIO rn before rethe the W V C T TU U in which I she denounced win wine supper receptions I pundIt punch h bowl society functions open oJ en sa us saloons loons looss on Sunday and gambling and I declared red that public sentiment was afraid to an and 1 out against the evils I Ifor for fear ot public disapproval S I The meeting which w was s held in m the parlors of the Y M C A was ItS in memory of Frances E B Willard and the i flat first part of Mrs Browns Drowns paper p per was wasa a tribute to the life and work of the great temperance worker There was a large attendance of the members pros pres present 1 ent out and the paper the greater grater part PUt of which dealt with the question was enthusiastically received by b the union and given hearty endorsement Referring to the local conditions Mm Brown Bron said that never was the punch bowl bawl and the wine supper more mort popular than today in this city and declared that the shame of it was that condemnation of ot it was wu rarely r rely heard She spoke poke of f the public affairs and said gall that she e had bad heard of oC none where the punch bowl howl and add a quan ties of wine were not n the prominent features and I 1 deplored the sanction which women gave to the evil en Mrs Brown aron declared that a 30 city Is In disgrace when it invites men to its gates emi and feasts them only on y on strong drinks and decried the lack of stam stain stamina ina ma among the people who she said should arouse themselves against mak making making ing tag strong drink a respectable adjunct to society She asked whether it was vas I any kny wonder w that young oung men and ond wo women women women men behaved unseemly on the th street after a senatorial evening of wine The Tile I law aw might do much to raise the tone of public morals but public opinion was wets wasas wasas as weak in enforcing laws as It was US In frowning upon the social glass She referred to the work vork of Jong Ming lUng in his last effort to abate evils among his people and asked If Chris Chri Christian tian ti n people ople could not plead together against vice that gambling both Chi Chinese Chinese nese nose and white bIte might be blotted out of this city She called attention to the fact that saloons were open opi on 1 Sunday that little boys were seen to enter them and asked why public sen sentiment should not turn its guns upon evil At the close e of the reading of the I paper a lively discussion on was va indulged in by a number of tf the die e ladles ladies who vh ex expressed expressed pressed themselves as being heartily with Mrs MiS Brown Bro n I I