The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-25
WANTS RIOT Let LOOSE
Mrs. Hammer Tells the w. c.
T. U That Is the Only
Way to Get Reform.


The evening session of the W. G. 7. U.
conference held yesterday in the Knox
Presbyterian Church, kearny, was opened
by devotional exercises led by the Rev.
]. #. Folsom, pastor of the church. h
church choir was not present, and a SOLO,
1.-THE Ninety and Nine" was substituted
for the choir anthem. The address Of
the evening was delivered by Mrs. A.. M.
Hammer on Temperance from the w. G..
T. u. standpoint Mr.. Hammer began
by describing the organization of the
Union and its division into branches. She
mentioned the many kinds of work done
aside from the liquor question; the Flow
or Mission, the jail work. slum work,
coffee houses and rescue missions and
also the struggle for equal suffrage. She
said she personally does not believe in
half way measures. she believes in total
prohibition Of the manufacture and sale
OF liquor, and she continued
II would like to have bill So fail-the
bill saying saloons must not be within 20
feet of churches, etc. ! would like to
have saloons next to churches, next to
p~arsonages, three or four on a block
and riot let loose. Then, / think, it
would work out that there would be no
saloons. We believe in men voting as
they pray. and praying as the mean, not
as did old Bijah Jones, who prayed con-
stantly to the Lord to take him home"
and when a neighbor. to test him, said
one night he was the Angel Gabriel come
to take him home replied, Bijih Jones
dom live here no more. He moved two
weeks ago. There was an old colored
r.ro,cho- Jou,p Cn1,fb rubn hQar6 that
some of the members of his flock had
signed a liquor license. He assembled
them all one day and asked everyone in
the congregation till he found three men
who shamefacedly admitted they had
done it. He told them to walk to the
front and bring their hats with them and
when he had read them a severe lecture
lie told them to go, that they didn't be-
long from that time forward to his
church. When someone demonstrated With
him and asked him if he had not been
too severe in turning them out after such
Il lecture he replied. mo. de peculiarities
of de Baptis' Church dom agree with de
eccentricities Of whiskey and dem men
must co. / wish the peculiarities Of all
our churches did not agree with the ec-
centricities of whiskey.
81 believe in pledging children. ! be-
lieve they know the value and importance
of a pledge and we constantly see illus
trations Of their knowledge. Would to
God women had the ballot. A man said TO
me the other day, When it's time for
m to vote I hope the Lord will take
me out of the country. 1t will be worse
thar ever And told him it would rot.
Women will then show that they can
help make quite as wise laws as men do.
If women had the ballot there would be
no talk of raising the age of Drotectfon
ST little girls from IS to IS. There would
be no age of protection if the mothers
as well as the fathers had the ballot. A
~seoundreps a %sccundrel at any time.
I'VE arc told that there are so many
bad women who would vote. | believe in
fair play. # bad men vote, then let bad
women. And there are more bad men
than bad women anyway. Take the
9enitentiary, LEO men and SO women; a
jail 500 men and IS women. And the bad
women. many of them would vote that
these frightful evils be abolished. Many
Of them whom I have questioned have
told me so, have said they would vote to
nave temptation taken out of the way
Mrs. Hammer closed with an earnest ap-
neal to the audience to join the w. G. T.
e., and help in the work of reform. The
collection was taken up and MRS. L. j.
Kennedy sang a solo, after which the
henedicticn was pronounced and the meet
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