Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-29
w. C. T. U.
Resolutions Adopted at It's CLOSING q
Session.

Au tHo CloolnS bdbSlOu Oi Cn0 W. ". Il.
U. on Friday, twenty-five resolutions
were adopted. Owing to q lack of space,
only tho most important are given, az
follows.
That as mothers we hail all improve
ments in dress that shall assist in max
ing our women stronger, physically and
mentally; that social purity and the sup.
preston of impure literature, including
the display of obscene pictures and works
OF art, receive special attention. and that
we continue to ask our Legislators to raise
still further the age of protection for our
daughters; that our laws be so amended
that man and woman be held equally
guilty and suffer equal penalties; that
| we hereby express our sympathy with
the Peace and Arbitration Department in
all its efforts 10 promote the abandon
ment OF war by the employment of arbi-
tration in the settlement of differences
that as the liquor traffic is the known
and aggressive enemy of the home, we
protest against it's existence under the
sanction of the law, and we will
use our combined efforts to stand by the
| officers and courts in eeeing that the
| laws are enforced; that VIC will more
vigorously work to secure the enactment
OF a Sunday law and better observance
of the Lords Day, by circulating suitable
literature, and that all ministers be
| asked to bring the subject more promi-
| nently before the people during the year,
and especially that temperance lessons
be taught monthly in our Sunday
schools; that as members of this con-
vention we pledge ourselves to earnestly
work for the ballot for ourselves and our
sister women as one of the surest means
of putting down the curse of intemper-
ance, and that We work to create pub
lie sentiment to sustain and carry on this
measure through our next Legislature !;
that we re-enter our protestation against
smoking in the streets, street cars and
in other public places as an insufferable
infringement OF civil rights, and against
the employment OF women as clerks in
tobacco stores; that as God helps us
until our ate is redeemed from1a con-
tamihation with this vile evil by statu-
tory and constitutional laws enacted and
enforced, and that in the future as in the
past we will support auy political parry
which promises US the protection for our
homes which we have demanded; that
we view with regret the recent
defeat of prohibltory measures,
and record unswerving opposi-
tion to this so-called temperance
measure-high misunderstanding it as
subserving the liquor interest; that
since statistics show that in all the prin-
cipal cities OF our land the balance oi
power is held by the foreign element
which is also the strength of the saloon
power, which contains large per cent
age of illiteracy, and which has large
negotiable vote, greater intelligence is
needed in the exercise of the franchise,
and that we hereby pledge best efforts
to secure the ballot for woman, and
seek the favorable action thereto from
our next Legislature; that while we, as
women of the Christian Temperance
Union are diligently laboring to intro
ducs into our schools such scientific in
struction as shall prove one safeguard to
our children against the use of alcoholic
drinks, we must with corresponding
earnestness protest against the introduc-
tion of any course of instruction expressly
for the production of wines," for fer
menting," testing" and treating"
them, as one of the courses in the educa-
tion of our sons and daughters; what is
thus advertised as a special advantage,
"the only one of it's kind in the United
States," where, under the joint control OF
the University Regents and Viticultural
Commission, "the theory and art of wine
making" is now taught, we do contrari-
wise consider as blemish upon the
University of our State, and as Christian
women and Christian mothers we must
withhold our patronage from any institu.
ton where our sons and daughters at
their peril are taught how to nurture into
life the very monster we are seeking to
DESTROY