The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-28

she thought also that it was mistake
to keep boys and girls there but one
or, two years and then let them return
to their old hauDts-the state should
provide homes ard employment FOL
them at the end of their terms.
Mrs. Mary @. Coulter thought that
night child labor in the canning fac
tories should be prohibited by law, and
told how she was often disturbed from
her sleep by the noise of the children
returning from their factory work in
the night.
In the reports that came from differ
ent parts of the state along this line
Provo reported that clerks in the stores
were we'll provided for: that expectOra-
ton on the sidewalks and in the public
buildings was not prohibited; that
women did not get the same wages for
the same work as the men; that there
was no woman on the board of direct
Ors of the state insane asylum. ogden
reported that the Utah canning factory
was clean and that but few children
were at work; the law against eXi'ec
toration is not enforced, and that the
streets of Ogden are not nearly SO clean
as those of Salt Lake.
Paper on Organization.
The next paper was read by Miss
Sara Whalen, and was a very able and
thoughtful production. She began with
the proposition that organization was
the order OF the day. In the nation it
is the mobilization of troops to destroy
other nations; but the great armies Of
women, without arms. ammunition or
pay, are doing great things FOR the
good Of the race. Women OF all grades
OF society are organizing, the Itch, the
poor, the ignorant and the educated
all in the same movement for mutual
help and betterment.
Miss WhaIen told of what was being
done in the large cities by the con-
sumers' leagues in the way of COM
pelllng the employers to look after
The health and the welfare of the
clerks and other employees. One OBJ
JecU of these organizations is to teach
thOughttulnesS TO the buyers so that
they viii not be so eXacting, especially
at holiday times, and encourage them
to do a good part of their shopping in
the morning hours.
Mrs Scott of Park City reported that
the club of that place was in a -four
iShing condition. that the etght-hOur
law WAS enforced in the mines; that
there was every possible protection of
good wages: that there were good
schools; that the sanitary conditions
of the city were as good as could be
expected in a town so situated, and
that the crying need of the time was
a library and reading room to give the
men some place to go to besides the
saloons. A movement is on foot to have
a library; $4,000 has been subscribed
and before another year goes by there
will be a good public library and read
ing room in Park City.
Mrs. A. V. Taylor and Mrs. George
Snow Carleton reported as to what had
been done in Salt Lake in the way of
the early closing of the stores and the
betterment of the condition of the
clerks.
Initiative and Referendum.
Mrs. billiard followed with an able
paper on the initiatives and referendum
and brought out many of the strongest
arguments in favor of that reform. As
an illustration of the crying need for
the change she cited the giving away
by the Liberal council in Ogden of the
street railway and WaterWOrkS fran
chises for 81 against the direct wishes
of the people. Honest people are weak,
said the speaker, and do not do after
election what they promise before cleo
ton that they viii do. With the peO-
pie in control OF the law-making power
no public official would dare to veto an
eight-hour law, said Mrs. Hilliard-
1t was the intention TO have had a
discussion of this subject, but other
work crowded it out. 1t was charged
that male teachers were getting better
pay in some schools than the women
teachers in violation of the law, and
this gave rise to some warm discus
sion.
1t was voted to have published in
pamphlet form the papers on the indus
trial work of the federation, and then
Mrs. Margaret a. Game, the state or
ganizer, gave a good report of the work
being done in that way. Three clubs
were organized during the year and
others were forming.
Miss Mabel Clark then favored the
convention with a beautiful song that
won hearty applause, and as the last
number on the programme Professor
Roylance spoke on the subject of public
spirit and public conscience He began
with the beginning, when man had no
individuality, and traced his subject
down through all the progress TO the
present, and gave a very learned adj
dress on how public opinion is formed,
how the idea starts in the mind OF a
single individual, and how the reform
grows and spreads until it becomes
dominant His closing thought was
that where there was the greatest
amount of probity, honesty, intell-
gence and activity in the individual
there would the best society be found
After closing remarks by President
Coulter a vote of thinks to the press
of the city, a vote of thanks from the
visiting delegates for the hospitality of
the city, the seventh annual cOnven-
ton of the Federation of Woman S
Clubs of Utah was declared at an end.