The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-20
ADDRESS
Of Major ]. F. Bradley to the Tenn
perance Reform Club
Upon His Retiring from Office as
The President, August
14tb, 1882.

Friends and FelloaO Members Of the
Reform Club:
1t is now two and half years
since this Mckenzie Temperance
Reform Club was organized and its
regular meetings have been held
every Monday night with a single
exception to this time. Aside from
secret societies (Templars of Honor
and Good Templars) with whom we
are in fraternal fellowship, our as
ISOLATION, with its auxiliary Ladies
Temperance Union, is the only &C
tive temperance organization in this
city. It's objects are threefold-
prevention, prohibition and reform
alton. It's foundation stone is total
abstinence from all that can intox-
icate. Its members are pledged to
practice that virtue and to personal
effort in persuading others to do the
same. It's meetings are well sus-
tanned and made interesting
by brief and earnest addresses,
interspersed with singing and recl-
tatiOns. We do not favor long and
prosy essays.
During the most part of its exis-
tence, the club has sustained public
reading and recreation rooms, with
committees to look after suffering
members, and find work for the I'M
employed. There have been issued
over I,OOG tickets of membership
to applicants, all of whom signed
the pledge as a condition precedent
to membership. Besides these, over
500 persons have signed their names
to the pledge who have not become
voting members. Of the signers
some have verified the Scriptural
representation of swine that, being
washed, returned to their walloWing
in the mire. A few have gone
down to drunkards' graves, and
others, breaking their pledges and
plunging into their former excuses,
have blighted the hopes and broken
the hearts of those whom they were
bound to love and protect.
Those of our members who have
labored hardest to prevent these
tragedies, could unfold tale of
human woe and domestic Wretched-
ness, that would surely move the
hardest heart and arouse to action
the apathetic and Indifferent IN
this liquor-Stricken community.
Be it ours to labor in every le-
ultimate way to create public SEN
timent that shall make dram-selling
and drinking disreputable, and to
reach and teach the younger pOr-
ton of the community to avoid the
very appearance of this deepseated,
overshadOwing evil. If we cannot
convince, let us at least shame the
respectable, moderate drinking class
into a realization of the fact that
moderate drinkers are the right and
left hand supporters Of drunken
ness. Let US exert ourselves again
to provide for the coming season a
coy, attractive resort, where, with
books, papers and appliances for re-
creation, the homeless men of town
and mining camps may find hearty
welcome and a place of refuge, from
the multiplied temptations Of the
city.
Thus far, the active temperance
women of Salt Lake have proved
our right arm of influence in this
good work. Without their con-
tinued labors we may well be dis
couraged. But they will not fail
US. When men of standing in
church and in the community grew
cold and Indifferent and our ranks
were thinned by their apparent
desertiOn, our noble lady workers
stood faithful among the faithless.
We rely upon them in the future as
IL the past. The temperance move
ment, here at least, is not popular
1t is we'll for all who would Join US,
to first count the cost. Dram
drinking and tipping is strongly
eptrenched within the threefOld de-
fences of avarice, appetite and
fashion. So long as members OF
Christian churches store their Gel
lars and furnish their tables with
intoxicating liquors; SO long us fair
women circulate the wine cup. and
udIl,y W III LOtA W AS5C " II CtIO CCAA-
versational powers ebb and flow
with inspiration drawn from
the cup; so long as place. hunters
and politicians have intrigues
to perfect or votes to obtain
so long as aYarice coins the
life blood of human hearts into
dollars by the manufacture and sale
of Intoxicating drinks; and, finally,
so long as the accumulated appetite
of this people, inherited from past
generations Of tipplerS and drunk
ards, and naddned by the adverse
ties or properties OF the present
continue to storm the citadel of
moral life, so long will the master
full evil of intemperance sway the
multitude,silenee the weaklings and
slay its thousands. But as IN the
anti-slavery movement il this coun-
try, the faithful few unfalteringly
stood to their guns and amid sneers.
OblOquys and violence proclaimed
the simple truth Of human brother
hood and the divine right of self
L.