The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
Mayor Harrison of Chicago Gets
a Blowing Up
For Leading a Sunday Parade
of BicycIists.
WIVES AND MOTHERS
To the Number of 600 De-
nOunce Him,
Also Take Up the Booth Tucker
Trial.

Chicago, May 29.-Six hundred wives
and mothers belonging to the West
Side w. c. T. U. and as many others
in the central union have bitterly de-
nounced the desecration of the Sabbath
by bicycle club parades. They have al
SO protested earnestly against the act
ion of Mayor Harrison in lending the
sanction of his presence to the union
run of last Sunday.
This action was taken in the meeting
of this week, and as a result the execu-
tive board was delegated to make
known the sentiment of the w. c. T.
U. members.
Our motto is: For God and Home
and Native Land said Mrs. H l.
Clarke, president of the third district
organization, whose territory extends
from Twelfth street to North avenue
and from the lake to the county limits.
And, continued Mrs. Clarke, when
we hght against Sunday parades of BIZ
cycle clubs, we are defending all three.
l live in Jackson boulevard, and as ear
ly as o'clock Sunday morning the
Wheelmen began to pass, yelling like
Comanche Indians, some of them blow
ing on tin horns and bugles. Talk about
Sabbath rest and quietude! It didn't
exist for one moment.
But when the chief executive not
only sanctions it, but heads the process
sion, it is time for the citizens of Chi
cagO to say something
What are we coming %" exclaimed
Mrs. Mathilda B. Carse, when the Sab
bath is turned into a bicycle parade
day and the mayor of this great city
so far forgets the dignity of his posi-
ton as to participate in the show 2XV hat
an example has been set the young
people when the mayor spent the Sab
bath leading a crowd of scorchers in a
bicycle run!''
None of US object to the wheel
said Mrs. S. M D. Frye, tor even it's
Sunday use, if it is a proper one But
it seems to me the mayor should dis
courage Sunday club runs instead OF
leading them"
At the regular meeting of the Central
union in Willard hall the following
resolutions, drafted by Katherine Lente
Stevenson, were adopted and forwarded
to Gen. Booth-Tucker:
Resolved, That we extend our cor
dial sympathy to Commissioner Booth
Tucker, commander of the forces of the
Salvation Army for the United States,
in the unjust persecution to which he
has been subj jected; that we regret that
it should have been possible in any
court OF the United States to convict
him upon such a. charge, and that We
beg respectfully to call the attention
of New YOrk's judge and jurors to the
fact that the open saloon, with its US
ual adjuncts, is still in evidence in their
city, and we would suggest that it
might be well if some of the zeal dis
played in dealing with the Salvation
Army We're. to be turned against this
unmistaka BILE nuisance
we have no fear but that God, whom
the Salvation Army so faithfully serves
will Overrule the outburst of the wrath
of the man to the good both of the or
ganization itself and the work to
which it is pledged, but we regret that
Christian America in the latter years
of the 18th century should have been
guilty of such exhibition of intol-
erance."
Think of the injustice of it," ex-
Gained Mrs. Helen NJ. Barker, the
national treasurer "A saloonkeeper
may go unmolested when all kinds OF
brawls, and even murder, take place
in his saloon, but a Salvation Army
member is fined for singing 'halielu-
jah!'''