Telegram-herald., 1890-05-19
REV. ANNA SHAW
The FIRST Lecture Of the Courss Ia
This CaIy.
HOW She INPRESSED HER HElRERS
re, Vi Manifest Their syn Psthy-fhs Pre-
saiItzs UErest-Its CS&ss, Injustice
-N0aaan's Rights aud FrO-
ktbitiOR-A StrOag Plea

Rev. Anna Shaw delivered the rrst OF
her advertised course of lectures IL TINS
c.ty AZ Hartman's Hail yesterday after
noon. The appointed hour FOR the
lecture having arrived. the audience
were granted a stay OF proceedings Of
thirty minutes, thus atOrdlng an Op-
pOrtunlty 10 those possessing sur1clent
reverence and refinement OF nature 10
enjoy il, OF digesung the beautiful
thoughts for the Sabbath day spread
out over the program. After All had
become sufficiently instructed where 10
90 for the best washing and ironing,
and where the gentleman could be
found to make proper disposition Of
their dead bodies, the lecturer and at
tendants appeared upon the plat
form. Blanche Minderhout sang
with great sweetness a sacred
selection, and prayer was Of
fered, after which the lecturer was
introduced. The hall was about one
third filled with sympathetic audi
ence, who doubtless would nav kept
the hall ringing with their applause,
but for the restraints Of the Lords
day. As II was, their enthusiasm was
not wholly restrained, and cordial APP
prevails were forced liOm the audience
several times by the irresistible force OF
some OF the orators c.maNes.
The lady hegan 10y a satisfactory
q ~ "a a. \
for the object she had in view. Going
more deeply into the subject she SAID
that everybody realizes that these are
days of wIdoly-spread unrest, and illus
trated the TACT by citing the conditions
existing IN all the civilized nations OF
Europe and America. The different
phases of this unrest IN various lands
DO not mean a difference OF cause, for
If we ask the cause the answer every
where u, Injustice. The existence of
the same unrest which prerails every
where, shows that IT'S cause Is not IN
mOnarchlal institutions. Ii Is not IN
the pecuI Iaritlcs OF any one political ad-
mrnIstraIOn, FOR We have o. late had
both parties i'm control of the govern
ment, ana yet the unrest continued the
same.
The speaker went on, IN a magnificent
Grafton OF an hour and half, 10 show
that this injustice takes tie form, IN
this country, OF the Acknowledgement
of women, and tha; the baterest fruit
of 1t is the perpetuatDn of the
power of the saloon. In t. principal
aspects, the lecture was theold plea
for woman's rights and prohibition.
In the details o. its argument and
rhetoric, however, Rev. Anna Shaw
must be accorded the praise of pow
erful originality. A slice cut out OF ter
lecture anywhere would we'll illustrate
this. For instance, after thrilling the
audience with number OF horrible
tales of the effects OF drunkenness,
graphically told, Miss Shaw suddenly
turned her thought and sad,
"But men tel. us that WOm-
en- are exctable and emotional.
Gentlemen, in view of these facts,
wonder that mothers are not driven be
yOnd the point OF feminine emotion
INTO insanity. In view of these facts,
wonder that our mad houses are not
filed with the shrleks OF despalrng
mothers, driven mad by the wholesale
destruction of husbands and sons before
their very eyes, while their own hands
are tied by cruel injustice which pre-
vents them from making one effective
move TO save their loved ones from the
snares that are set for them"
The futlity Of staying the plague by
the circulation of pledges was dwelt
upon Ht length.
The audience were kept intensely in
terested from the beginning to the end
ing of the lecture.