The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-29
TEMPERANCE WORK
White Ribboners Turn
Their Attention to
Closing Of Saloons
on Sunday.

The afternoon session of the Hudson
County Semi-Annual Convention and
school of Methods in ST. Marks A. NJ.
T.. Zion Church, yesterday, at half-past
one, opened with an executive meeting.
Ihere were number of business mat
ters to be disposed of and committees APP
pointed. Mrs. Coupland Mrs. Banta and
Mrs. s. j. Kennedy were appointed
nominating committee for the annual
convention and election of officers next
fall, and as Mrs c. Story, county presi-
dent expects to sail for Scotland early in
May, Mrs. Coupland was elected acting
president until her return. The place of
the fall convention was decided, first.
Hoboken, that failing Bayonne, and that
failing Lafayette, probably in the order
of their respective fields for temperance
reopens.
The public session opened with devo-
tions led by the Rev Florence Randolph,
after which Miss L. Page read very
interesting letter from Mrs SearIe of
Connecticut, formerly foremost among
the temperance workers of this city, on
why Temperance Should be Taught in
the Sabbath Schools" She could not see
why there should be SO much objection
to just four temperance lessons per year,
when the saloons kept up one continuous
performance and the bartender was called
a fanatic.
Mrs Rosetta Lawson, of Washington,
D. G., one of the organizers of the Negro
Temperance Union, brought greetings and
gave a very interesting description of her
trip as delegate to the International
Temperance Convention in Edinburgh
She spoke of the speech made by the
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, of Kansas,
''emphasized,i' as she put it, .sby Sister
Nation this year."
Miss T.. Jackson and Mrs. T. ]. Kennedy
led in a secretaries conference and gave
some excellent suggestions as to what
was required of the up-to-date secretary.
Above all else, Miss Jackson said, she
must be able to write concisely and well,
stating clearly the purport of her notice
in the first few lines and bringing in2Ehe
compliments afterwards if she desired.
There was also a treasurers' conference;
led by Van De Werken, in much
the same way, and "Children's Hour
participated in by a number of negro
tots, under direction of Mrs. Nordine
and Mrs Thomas, closed the entertain
ment.
Among the resolutions brought in by
the committee at the close of the pro-
gramme, mostly of thanks, was the fol-
lowing on Sunday saloon closing, unani-
mously adopted
Whereas, Many residents of Jersey
City, prominent men and others, especial
ly liquor dealers, are publicly advocating
a Continental Sabbath (the opening of
saloons on Sunday at one o'clock P. Nj;
and
{ Whereas, The present violation of the
law in this city on Sunday, with closed
doors and shaded windows, has physical
ly, mentally and morally ruined hundreds
of youth, men and women, crowdng our
prisons with human wrecks; therefore
Resolved, That we. members of the
Womans Christian Temperance Union of
Hudson County, in convention assembled,
emphatically. protest against the sale of
beer, spirituous or malt liquors openly
or privately on Sunday. and we earnestly
call on all Christian, philanthropic and
moral men and women to publicly, with
righteous indignation, oppose this evil
and protect the youth, the hope of the
nation, from this danger which threatens
us; and be it further
Resolved, That we are opposed to the
sale of beer, spirituous and malt liquors
on all occasions and at all times"
The thirteen unions of the county are
all more or less active in preventing or
counteracting the liquor traffic. Arlington
reported activity 'in preventing another
saloon in the town; Bayonne will soon
erect cold water fountain on the Boule-
ward, and Harrison and Kearny "are
working for Sunday closing of saloons"
Miss Kate Lunden, of Pennington, N. j.,
addressed the evening session on My
Brothers Keeper" She took for her text
the story of Cain and Abel and held that
one person was responsible to great ex-
tent for his neighbor. Mrs. Harper,
member of Zion Church, sang several So
los most charmingly