The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18
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WELCOMED
TO BERKELEY
Greeted by Leaders of
the Town.
CONFERENCE WORK BEGINS
DELEGATES HOLD A PUBLIC
MEETING.
Opening of the Nineteenth Annual
Convention of the California
Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union.
DELEGATES HOLD A PUBLIC
MEETING.

BERKELEY, Oct. 1.-THE nineteenth
annual convention of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of California
was opened tonight in the First Pres
byterian Church on Allston way The
occasion was a public welcome in behalf
of the university town TO the $50 and
more delegates who have come from diff
ferent parts of the State to listen to the
annual reports and to talk over the pros
poets for another years work in the
movement of temperance reform.
The church had been decorated appro-
priately by the ladies of the local union.
Banners from the different societies were
hung about the building, showing the del
egates to have come from all sections of
the State, where the white ribbon car
ries its silent crusade. On the platform
sat Mrs. B. Sturtevant-Peet, the president
of the conference; Mrs. George w.
Haight, Professor Elmer E. Brown, Rev.
George B. Hatch, William H. Waste, Mrs.
Louise NJ Thomson, Mrs. H. Pierce and
Mrs. e. G. Greene.
After preliminaries of song and prayer
the chairman Of the meeting introduced
w. H. Waste, who spoke in behalf of the
city. He welcomed the delegates on be-
half of the Board of Trustees. His adj
dress was glowing tribute to Womans
occasion to say that the charter amend
ment voted upon at the polls in Berkeley
last Saturday was defeated at the in
stance OIL the Saloon Keepers.
The Rev. George B. Hatch spoke on be-
half of the churches There are causes,
he said, which make the individual de-
struction of the saloon an impossibility.
One of these is civic opinion. another the
civic conscience. 1t is not true that the
majority of our population is against the
saloon. The vast majority favor it, or are
Indifferent. The fact is that the popular
conscience takes no heed of It There is
only one preordained thing to do TO change
this condition. and that is the reform OF
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saloon will stay just while civic opinion
and civic conscience permit 1T. If the
civic conscience held the saloon as 1t
held slavery, that evil could not be kept
here even at the lannon's mouth. II is
the great work of reforming the public
conscience that the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union is trying TO accom-
In behalf of the University of Califor-
mia Professor Elmer E. Brown welcomed
the delegates to the State University. He
was followed by Mrs. George w. Haight
of the local union.
In response. Mrs. E. G. Greene, the first
vice president of the California Union; sey-
enteen years ago, spoke on behalf of the
State She thanked the city and its rep
resentatives for the cordial welcome they
had accorded the temperance workers.
She smoke of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union as the right hand of
the church. covering over forty depart
ments of work in which the church itself
Tomorrow morning at o'clock the reg
ular session of the conference will begin.
The following programme has been ar
ranged:
Morning Devotional exercises, Mrs. n.
NJ Arnold. State hymn. Appointment of
Committees Officers reports: Recording
secretary Mrs. r. A. Emmons; cor
responding secretary, Mrs, D. ]. Spence; au-
ditor. Mrs. Blanche English; treasurer Mrs.
Emily Hopkins. Department reports: Foreign
and sailors work, Miss S. NJ. N. Cummings;
evangellstic, Mrs. Annie K. Bidwell; Sunday
school, Mrs Louise III. Thomson; legislation
and petitions. Mrs. Annie Lttle-Barry; De-
mcrest medal contests, Miss Helen Mclean;
press, Mrs Glare o. Southland; juvenile. Mrs.
Nellie B. Eyster; w. c. T. u. chorus; fran
chise, Miss Sarah NJ. Severance; Oriental work.