The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-16
W. C. T. U. DAY.
The Chautauqua Exercises We're
Very Interesting.
The Temperance QUESTION a Broad One-Bis
Work ahead-The Attendance the
Largest OF the Season

The Utah Chautauqua has decided TO
hold no moro evening sessions during the
last days of the meeting. Hereafter the
exercises will close about 4 pm.
The usual devotional services were held
yesterday morning, the leader being l.
Hughes, who subject was Wisdom"
which was appropriate to Chautauqua.
Miss Easton presided at the organ, and
Miss M. l.. Powelrs subject was "Gest-
ures" She said there was expression in
every movement of the body.
Prof j. G.. Wolfe devoted the usual
hour to music.
The Women's Christian TIE importance
union had CHI arg of the evening and after
noon exercises.
Miss Hattie Turner, president of the So
ciety, presided and gave the annual ad-
dress. She also spoke for Miss Baker on
the work of the Loyal Legion.
Miss Mayne read a paper Tor Miss Mont
gomery on the "Y's."
Mrs. Griffith reported on gospel work.
Mrs. Whipple read an excellent and ap-
propriate paper on the EVIL Effects of To-
bacco.n
Mrs. Hunter of Ogden gave an interes t.
ing talk on the work in the jails and re-
form school at the junction city.
Mrs. Whitney sang very sweetly
Mothers Prayer" and Mrs. Crocker of
Ogden read the report of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union.
| Mrs. Sarah Reed of this cit y gave an &C.
count of the work in the city and county
jails, and Judge M. b. Osborne offered the
closing prayer.
! In the evening services were begun by
singing "Blest Be the Tie" after VIII CHI
Mrs. Reed read passage In scripture ana
offered prayer.
Mr.. Scott Anderson delivered the address
of the evening He said 1t was the GUS
| tom in Scotland for families to have liquor
on Christmas and New Years, and once he
asked his mother TO let him have drink,
but she refused He watched whore she
put the bottle, aud when no one was look
ing he took some of it. That was his first
and last drink. The birth of the temper
ance movement was not known. In 1917
tine fret Irish pledge was taken by three
men, aud they kept it until they died. The
movement had developed from an infant
into strong man, but it had to cut its
| teeth on sarcasm.
He was glad they hadn't called it the
| Ladies' Christian Temperance union. A
noble woman is worth ten ladies, and a
woman is worth two men. They have a
mighty influence. Every young man should
be required to come up to the standard set
| for women. No man would walk along the
street with woman with q cigar
in her mouth, or who drank or
gambled, and the same rule should
apply to men. The temperance question,
he said, was broad one. Many excellent
people drank, and the battle is not to be won
| by going down into the gutter. The ex-
ample set by benjamin Harrison or Grover
Cleveland when they allowed wine on their
tables was worse than that OF any working
man in the country. The w. G. T. U.
was the only organization working-the
Others were asleep. We must be in earnest
if we accomplish much. The difficulties
now were as nothing compared to those en-
countered in the early movement, but he
had never doubled its ultimate success.
We shall come to the last 0runkard's wife
and wipe her tears away. He was once
asked il he was Prohibitionist and he
replied he was an annihilationist.
There is big work ahead, he thought
but he looked forward TO the day when nc
respectable people would allow wine or
their sideboards. The teetotaler lives or
an average fifteen years longer than The