Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-11-30
4 STORM IS BREWING.
Temperance Women Differ as
 to Living Pictures.
INTERESTING FIGHT LOOKED FOR.

of She woman's Christian Temperance Union Who stand at the Head of That 0rgsnizasion-Mrs. Grannis Makes | Some Plain illustrations.
 NEW YORK, Nov. BOA storm Is brewing as result of the Woman's Christian Temperance unions contem- plated crusade against the living pie lures and Is of an interesting character. The forces arrayed against each other are two. They comprise those who de- i clared that living pictures are just too lovely for anything or wor6s to that ef- feet and those who say the pictures are horrid, immoral, disgusting, degrading, indecent, ncentious, etc.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Grannis, prominent member of the Woman's Christian Tenn perance union and president of the Na- tional Christian league for the promo tion of social purity, heads the opposing element, or those members of the union who are loud in their praises of the liv- ing pictures and deplore the crusade about to be waged against them. The crusaders are led by Lady Henry Som- erset and Mrs. Harriet Pritchard, state superintendent of the purity in the lit- erature and art department of the union and woman devoted to her work. She it was who inaugurated the warfare against the living pictures. She is the pioneer crusader. The opposition de- clares she never saw the inside of the- ater, never gazed upon the beauties of living pictures and Mrs. Pritchard ad- mits it.
 "No, and don't want to see living picture" said Mrs. Pritchard. 'Tis true I never frequented a theater or saw what are called living pictures. My l opposition to them is based on reports and what have read in the newspapers and other publications. consider the 1 living pictures of today unfit public spectacles. They must go"
 "I have seen the living pictures" said Mrs. Grannis, "and I consider the pie lures beautiful and instructive. They ! are nothing more nor less than the tab leaux of old, improved infinitely, made more realistic with the aid of modern agencies and wonderful artistic skill. made tour of all the theatres in which living pictures were exhibited. I saw them in '1492' and in Proctor's; in the l Garden theater, at Roster & Bial's, the Bijou and the Imperial. 1 saw nothing that was suggestive of indecency. Mrs. Pritchard is not in position to wage a war of this character. She Is not quail l fled to make the attack. I have seen with my eyes. She has not I have been fighting immortality for years and still fighting the evil one, and, while I applaud every effort to elevate morals and develop pure thought, cannot re- frain from criticising this socalled living 1 picture crusade"
 Continuing Mrs. Grannis said: "To my mind and there are many who agree with me that the living pictures of the Black Crook variety and spectacles of that character, seen in Bowery theaters and cheap and low places of amuse- ment are infinitely worse than the liv- ing pictures against which Mrs. Pritch- ard has directed her opposition. I have seen both kinds. Yes, I have been ex- ploring the Bowery and what is far worse, Chinatown, and have seen some | living pictures that would startle the ladies of the Woman's Temperance Christian Union. If they were to apply their energies in the overthrow of evil as have seen it they would find much more work to do than to lead an attack l on harmless artistic creations.
 II was compelled to go among the persons in the sluins to study them. I went into the Bowery concert halls and low dives and saw the revolting phases 1 of life brought out ill ali their lewd as- poets. obtained admission to opium dives on Mott street and saw the stupe- fled Chinamen lying in all positions from the effects of opium. I saw white women, too-young girls-under the effects of the drug. Some were lying in the same room as the Chinamen. As I had expected, found in the midst of this degradation girls who were once re- fined, girls of intelligence and educa- ton, who had fallen victims to the aw- full drug.
 ''The slums were revealed to me and none but those who have gone and seen can appreciate the degree of moral filth and degredation which exists in China town. This fact, therefore, accounts for the position take in the matter of the living picture crusade. have now seen both sides and am qualified to judge. Those who have not seen should not promote a needless war. There Is plenty of room for action on the Bowery and Mott street."
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