The record-union., 1898-09-28
RUM AND ITS GREAT COST.
MRS. MARY TEATS PORTRAYS
THE DESTROYER.
She Pleads for Woman's Suffrage
as Remedy for
Intoxication.

Mrs. Mary E. Teats, the well-known
temperance lecturer, delivered two ao
dresses at the Fourteenth and X streels
church yesterday afternoon ana even
ing to good audiences.
The first talk was to mothers, the
speaker touching in a delicate manner
on themes pertaining to hereully' soCi'i
purity, and motherhood. The lecture III
the evening was on the influence anu
cost of liquor to the American people.
Among other things, the speaker
said: What we need in TINS country
to-day is new conscience appheu "
politics and business. There are nearly
a quarter of a million people purleo
every year whose deaths are charge
able, directly or indirectly, TO WHISKY
in some form. Ninety per cent. ol ouA
crimes are caused by liquor, yet there
is not great political party thal lS
arrayed against the traffic. Ihe blple
says that drunkards shall not lnhefll
the kingdom of God. Do you know,
never read that passage OF scripture
without wondering what VIII become
of the drunkard makers. Yet TIE
brewers and distillers, the saloonkeep"s
and the voters who license saloons are
responsible for this"
The sneaker referred to the case of
a prominent Cincinnati brewer, Charles
Fisher. who recently died, as a sample
of the false sentiment of the times
He had been eulogized by the press
as a good citizen and a man of broad
philanthropy"
She read a few newspaper clippings
that showed that Fisher had been
guest of President Mckinley, ana
said:
1T was this mans money, his two
millions, that got him these eulogies.
A brewer is really as bad as a muir
derer, and a eulogy on the one is as
much in place as a eulogy on the
other"
Mrs Teats showed that the liquor bill
of this country alone amounts to more
than all the annual gold and silver
coinage of this country and of four
principal countries of Europe. She
said that the drink bill Of Chicago
amounts each year to more than Soo,-
100000, which sum- would feed the poor
of that city-more than 100000 strong
and give all of them homes and fine
modern accommodations. Chicago was
but one example in many of the ex-
travagance of the drink habit in this
country.
The speaker closed with an eloquent
plea for sobriety and good citizenship,
saying that it was the duty of all good
people, whether Christians or not, to
cast their votes for men who would do
all in their power to suppress the liquor
traffic, a thing that was more detri-
mental to the country than any other
one influence. She pleaded for wo-
mans rights on the ground that the
saloon men fear the wOman's votes
more than all else.
She said she was voter nearly thirty
years ago in Wyoming. and she did
not believe it would hurt all women
to vote. as she had found the expert
ence a benefit. She said she had fig
ures that showed that a recent pop
ular party convention in Chicago was
composed of 123 delegates. of whom 426
We're saloonkeepers, criminals, pool
sellers, prize-fighters, murderers, or
men who had served time for some
crime. They got into a fight in the
convention, and this lasted nearly two
hours At women's conventions she had
never witnessed such diversions.
At2:30p. m. to-day, at the First Bap-
tist Church, Mrs. Teats will lecture on
Normal Purity" with a chart lesson.