The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-11

remarks by the State president, Mrs. B.
Sturtevant Peet, expressing on behalf OF
the Women's Christian Temperance Union
her appreciation of the invitation of the
Chautauqua to occupy day, and of the
kindly relations existing between the two
societies. This was followed by a paper
on "Woman's Relation to Woman" by
Miss Jessie Norton, State superintendent
of scientific temperance instruction, where
in she treated especially of the relation of
mistress and house servant. 1t said that
not until household labor is respected in
portion to its true worth and necessity
will competent people undertake to per-
form it. and that as long as women who
hire help consider the position of servant
degrading so long will they experience the
present difficulties of housekeeping
Mrs. Henrietta E. Brown, w. G. T. q.
corresponding secretary, next took the
stand with paper entitled 1.-THE Women's
Christian Temperance Union as Applied to
Christianity" The Introduction consisted
of a poem on Lake Chautauqua, the birth
place not only of the institution that bears
it's name, but also of the w. c. T. q. The
union, the paper stated, has had wonder
amount OF reformatory work. 1t should
be called the Women's Christian Reform
Union instead OF the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, for it embraces forty
departments of reform work, moral, social
and political. In all its departments it is
the practical outworking of the Gospel.
This closed the morning session.
Miss Severance. well known as an equal
suffragist, opened the afternoon meeting
with short, pithy talk on the logic of
subordination, in which she gave learned
history of slavery of different kinds, but
especially the subordination of woman.
Man freed both himself and woman from
the despotism of tyrants she said, but be-
came himself tyrant to woman, not from
choice, but necessity
A revolutionist said the republic could
not be launched if the rights of both men
and women were asserted. Woman must
wait. Men have allowed political parties
to take the place of despots of old. Men
and women are different in function, but
both are equally needed for the proper
conducting of republic. The talk closed
with the following apt fable: A species of
bird existed, some having left wing and
left foot and hook on the right side,
others having right wing and foot and a
ring on the left side. They could neither
walk nor fly, and were very miserable
Two discovered that by joining hook and
ring they were complete beings. As they
scared above the others they tried to in
spire them to do likewise, but the others
said: 1--WE never have done SO, and never
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paper called forth much discussion.
Miss Nellie Shipley then played with
skill upon the cornet, accompanied by the
piano.
The last paper was by Mrs. E. G. Greene
of Santa Cruz, entitled "The Relation of
the National Government to the LIQUOR
Traffic" This paper was a finely presented
history of liquor legislation, showing clear
ly that the revenue derived from the LIQUOR
traffic does not equal one-tenth of the ex-
penditure in caring for the criminals it
makes.
This relation, it was claimed was de-
clared in the Continental Congress of LIZA,
in resolution which recommended each
State to pass laws to put an immediate
stop to the pernicious practice of distilling
grain by which the most extensive evils
were likely to be generated. The State was
in part maintained by a tax on tobacco and
brandy which was used to pay the minister
and teacher. The distribution of powers
between the general Government and State
were early brought to bear upon this aues-
ton.
States were to control the manufacture
and sale of liquors within their own
borders, the Government to control the
importation from foreign countries and
interstate commerce and to have supreme
power in the District of Columbia, the
Territories, military and naval posts. Con-
gress was also to levy taxes wherever the
traffic exists. This traffic was placed under