The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-05-23

children to unite and elect none TO office
Mess they pledge themselves 10 put a
stop to the liquor traffic.
Miss Ida 4. de VelliDg, organizer Of the
! Women's Christian Temperance Union at
Springfield. Mass, followed on the same
lines, and incidentally spoke in favor of
woman suffrage as help to stop the evil.
Does the drink habit become q dis
ease?" was a question answered in the
affirmative by Mrs. l.. j. KellOgg-Lane,
Nd, of Oakland. Her experience as a
doctor had brought her TO this view of
things, the speaker stated. She was fol-
lowed by Mrs. s. c. Sanford on Liquor
and Labor" In the course of her address
she said:
'The day is rapidly coming when the
crisis of this country will occur. The Ques-
ton is whether it will 20 on as an ideal re-
public, or whether it will be swept in
chaos as the republics of old were. The
machinery to plunge it into chaos is we'll
oiled. The machinery is the liquor saloons.
One great drawback to the eradication
of the liquor traffic is the fact that our
courts are venai. Thew bow down before
the liQuor-dealer and his cohorts Re-
model your courts and you will nave gone
a long way toward stopping the liquor
traffic"
Christian Endeavor was the general
theme Of the afternoon session of the con-
gress. Rev. +. B. Pullan made the first
address and many leading lights of the
Christian EndeavOr societies were present
in the audience.
''There is nothing new left to tell about
the effects of alcohol on the user and mis-
family" said Mr.. Pullau. mo language
is sufficient TO describe the injury done TO
the living organism of human nature. If
there is anything that is more fitting 10 be
called the destroyer 1t has not yet been
found. To keep dead things dead Is about
fah Il.
put. The strain OF civilized life is an ally
of liquor. for the broken nerves seek the
Stimulsnt OF liquor, and so far is il
gone that stronger stimulants are replac-
ing alcohol"
Touching on the social side of the ques-
tiop, the essayist asked if there were no
substitute for steam beer and 'Tot-gut"
whisky. The saloon is the cheapest place
TO 60 for sociabiiity. and the man-in-the-
white-apTOn was always ready TO welcome
his dupes. The human ambition OF gain is
a strong ally of the liquor traffic. The
power of money is used TO corrupt Legis-
latures, to corrupt politics. The saloon
goes into politics because il pays it to go
in. He likened the efforts of the LIQUOR
men 10 increase their business to a trust of
doctors combined together To spread small.
pox in order TO get business. In San
Francisco there IS one saloon TO every
ninety people, one saloon to every seven
teen VINES. Ht SlodbtI tlO EeNSf6Uu
gentleman thOught.fiS in the lack of united
effort on the part of the temperance people,
and until there is better organization
there will be much failure.
Mrs. Harriet \. Morris of the State
Normal Sehoo, Chico, read paper Oh the
Power of One" in which she pointed out
that there is work for individuals as we'll
as for organized effort. Ii one undertakes to
lead there will always he enough TO follow.
The earnest work of one is of great in
fluence on the world. There never has
been time when individual effort was
more needed or when the reward was
greater.
"The Social Influence of Young People"
was the title of an excellent psrer read by
Rev. Frank S Forbes Of the Utah Chris
tian EadeavOr Union. In the course of
his remarks Mr.. Forbes said he con sidered
the greatest OF all the religious movements
was the Christian Endeav0r movement,
now mum ering over 100000 of young
people working under the motto of For
Christ and the church"
All the evil is not with the saloon
keeper. but IN the society OF to-day-that
society that permits the salO0n-keel er and
the sale of liquor. 1t is necessary to re-
generate society. The first step is not in
the low dive, amid the Splttle and sawdust;
but in the elegant home, amid gayety and
bacchanalian music. The young man and
young woman leave their pure village
home and go TO the great city full of hope.
and entering the best society are soon
broken in health and morals.
"a false. popular and peited society,""
said Mr. Forbes, sis the most dangerous
thing for the young people of the present
Gay. Individual effort is needed. Each
one of you do what you are able; shine in
society. il you can. to purify it and regeu-
crate II. and If you cannot regenerate it,
then leave society.
But l do not mean the light between