The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-22
Ladies' Literary club.

Friday afternoon being the afternoon
devoted to current events, a brief sum-
mary of the principal events of the last
three weeks was given. Mention was
made of the final ending of the war in
Brazil; the uprising in Samoa; the
trouble in Nicaragua, which has grown
out of the entertainments of the Near
aguans upon the Mosquito Indian reser
walton, and the scheming of the Eng
lish to secure a site for a coaling sta
tion; the Bering sea troubles settled at
last by the sending of naval patrol
to the disputed waters; Wolcott's silver
bill; sale of the White City; court-mar-
tial of Commander Heyerman; bullet
proof coat invented by Herr Dove, the
Monheim tailor; the contemplated con-
struction of railway across Siberia,
to cost $500, 0OO, 900; the death of Senator
Colquitt, George Tichnor Curtis, David
Dudley Field, General Slocum and Sem
ator Vance; the appointment of Colonel
Walsh to fill unexpired term of the late
Senator Colquitt.
A very interesting paper on indus
trial Unrest" was given. 1t is said
there are today in the United States
fully 100000 unemployed workingmen
and women This is an unusual and
it seems uncalled for state of affairs
for America. We have ever been a
prosperous people, and we have urged
the poor of all lands to come here and
make their homes. Indeed, ac-
cording to statistics, we are very
prosperous now, and it is said that
figures do not lie" The latest bulle-
tin of the census bureau gives the total
wealth of our country at over $65,000,-
900, 900 as against $4,000, 100000 in 1870.
a growth of the wealth of the country
from $514 to $1,037 per head Of popula-
ton. The wealth of the county has
been concentrated. 1t has not gone to
the many, but has been sliced by the
few. The spirit of unrest thus created
has grown until traGnping feet of
hungry men are gradually arousing the
nation to the fact that we are nearing
the verge of precipice over which we
will be crowded, unless We heed the
( signs of the times and meet the peril
that confrontS us, not with Calling
guns, but in manner that will re-
, lieve distress and create confidence.
A paper giving a very clear and in
teresting account of the disturbances
in South Carolina was next read. The
ma is very strong, and is growing
year by year. In the general assembly,
which met in 1892, prohibition bill,
embracing the most approved features
of the Maine, Iowa and Kansas liquor
laws, was passed by a great majority
III the HOUSE. IN the senate, however,
dispensary bill was introduced as a
substitute, and on the last night of the
session was sent to the House, which
had no time to examine or alter the
bill, whose title was, "An act to pro-
hibit the manufacture and sale of in
toXicating liquors as a beverage within
the state as herein provided" By this
act the state assumes entire control of
the liquor traffic by means of state dis
pensaries. All liquors are sold in sealed
packages upon written request of the
purchaser. who is required to state his
age, residence and kind and quality of
liquor wanted.
| This law went into effect July 1, 1893.
Ever since there has been trouble over
! its enforcement. The especially obnox-
ious feature of the law, in the eyes of
( it's opponents, is that by which houses
of private citizens can be searched for
illicit liquors. The constabulary en-
ployed in its enforcement have been
/ termed "Tillman's Spies and their at
! tempt to execute their orders in Oar
/ lington led to the first open rebellion.
| An interesting talk about the Mid
winter fair by one of our members
who had lately been there closed the
afternoon.
! Dr. Utter will deliver a lecture on
Robert Browning in the club room
on the evening of April q, at 8 o'clock.