The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-03

The fei. - eloquence of Miss Belle
Kearrey. well known temperance
lecturer. was hurled against the liquor
traffic last night at the tabernacle. Her
subject was why Are the Wheels
Clogged?" and the question was eIo-
quentfy answered before an audience
of 500.
Stake President Angus NJ. Cannon
presided and several others ocnuniad
places in the stand, Including, Mrs. s,
I W. Martin. president af the ~.
u Of Mand- DR.. Matte Hughes Can
non, Mrs. e. A. Shepard, DR.. Ronania
B. Pratt and Elder Miner.
a few musical features were on the
bills, and after prayer by Elder Miner
Ave Marie was performed by Professor
Mcclellan on the big organ, followed
by a soprano solo Just AS AM by
Mrs. Lizzie Thomas Edwards.
Miss kearney, who was introduced
by President Cannon, began by eX-
pressing her pleasure at being in Salt
Lake and among the beauties OF the
everlasting nils. Temperance. she said.
vas an old-fashioned and unpopular
theme, just as the gospel was, but both
were destined TO progress etaFnally.
The temperance wave would continue
until all the saloons were closed and
all licenses revoked The claim that
the temperance issue was dead could
not be true, for as long as boys we're
made Sots and Women'S hearts We're
broken it would continue to spread.
Reference was then made to the rev.
olutions OF Christ and Luther both of
which she said began in obscurity and
met With opposition. So had the tenn
peT2nce cause. But already the
changes it had wrought wepe being felt
and had left an impress upon religion
and politics. Never before had there
been SO many advocates If temperance.
Never before had 50 many speakers
and journalists and text hooks ard
ministers been arrayed against it.
In considering the question Of why,
under these conditions. there was no
advance, why the wheels were still
clogged, Miss Kearney said there were
eight main reasons.
The first to be considered was the
corrupt political parties, which blocked
with an iron hand attempts TO reform.
Vicious foreigners. who came TO estab
lfsh breweries, constituted a leading
barrier in the way of reform. The
1,252, 4S4 negro voters of the south, size
claimed, were almost unanimous in
their opposition to anti-liquor reguia-
tons, and on these occasions their
votes were counted.
Respectable people were Indifferent TO
the baser elements Of society to accom-
plish their own evil ends. Backing the
sluTns was the liquor press, which was
controlled by the liquor dealers, and
even those papers that were not so
controlled openly advertised intem9er-
ance or were afraid from polite n o.
tives TO express their true convictions.
The independent press used its best
efforts, and was occasionally success
ful, but its voice was diTnmed out by
that OF the majority. The speaker op-
posed drinking in social surroundings
practice which had frequently started
men in the way which leads to ruin.
Church members yielded under the
whip CT corrupt parties, and deadened
their conscience to the necessity of
fighting liquor with the ballot. The
ballot was the weapon TO use and until
ii was used the sale Of liquor and the
ruin of men would still 60 on.
Miss Kearney concluded with a con-
demnation of the liquor license syS5e y,
which she said blinded men to the in
fanny it concealed
The lecture was frequently inter
rupted With applause. a baritone sole
was then sung by Professor Goddard.
An announcement was then made Of
Miss Kearney's future lectures. This
afternoon she VIII speak 20 men only
at the 7. NJ. C. a. on THE Modern
Crusade" and in the evening her theme
at the First NJ. Z. church win be How
VIII Your Hands ALook in the Search
Hght?" The final lecture viii take
place on Monday at the First NJ. e.
church, when she viii discuss
Alaska
Elder 2. X. Roberts offered the bene-
diction.