The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-18
THE SALT LAKE HERALD. MONDAY. FEBRUARY IS, 1901
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down, and, picking up the glass walked
out
Following this proceeding came the
prosecution of the saloon keeper and the
closing of his shop. Others followed, for
the women. rallied by the enthusiasm Of
the newspapers interested in the mover
action spread the interest abroad MRS
Stewart was invited TO talk In smau
towns about Springfield and did so, Win
GXc5l ent eSultS
The nrsG organized saloon visit was
made in Fredonia. n. y, on Dec. 10, totS.
Mrs. Il Mcneil was the leader Of the
movement and continued 10 aid with Use
organization or similar crusades through
/ our fbs country A lecture had been given
in the town by DIT. bio Lewis, during the
! course O. Whlch ne had proposed saloon
/ visitation. means OF closing saloons
which MS mother, IOtai ABSTINENCE W.
man. had years before found to De sue
/ cessful. The mo- ming after the lecture
I the women OF the town met, 1V' sttOilS,
/ and took up their march from saloon 70
/ saloon. A Few days later the women OF
/ Fre6Onia organized their W oman ; rem
/ peranco union. Al James town, N l.
/ where 1T Lt wis iectui ed ONE days ater,
/ q similar Organization was effected At
( HillsbOTo. O., women INSPIRED Dy tle sue
! cess of their neighbors started an uprlS-
/ ing which was soon interesting the peoI'te
| did nothing hau way they TOOK me -, -
| Icons one by one and campe0 at the4t
| front doors until the projectors were
! forced from fear TO shut up shop.
/ The crusade spread ike wiidfire, ana
! before the saloon keepers knew exactly
! what had happened they had capltulated.
! worldwide reputation was t11I- s -, -
/ country leading women whenever they
| proved weak and encouraging the aSSIeS-
n was not am easy for the women; they
had many trying experiences some ~
which resulted an their final deIeat, SONS
in their victory. In Cleveland there oc-
/ Cured q riot when the women flrSt ap-
! peared and had it not been for the timels
| ar val of TafallLleS
! / resulted.
The repeal of the Sunday closing law II
! Chicago was the occasion for an Immense
! demons ira ton by the women of that city
/ headed By Mother Stewart and Mis-
Frances Willard. They were mObbed II
many quarters of the city, but the actua
reform accomplished was not % marked
! as it was elsewhere There were few sa
5 to go to farming: few of them, if the,
| could prevent, allowed their property u
p be dumped into the streets. IhaI N
! crusade had its effect there rs no uouot
= ! ing; it was brave ilght, ana out OF
1 grew the WOman'S Temperance union
5 / with Miss Willard at its head, acknoWl
f edged TO be one of the most powerful or
! carnations of either men or women l
- this country
= as il did about "A year after its success l
this country, Mother Stewart was care
e to lead. She lectuEed throughout Grea
- PTitain, creating remarkable ehthusldS5i
g wherever she appeared, but the cfusdu
- which followed her effort in no way con
~ pared with that which had SJ1rfeu ALlel
i lea Never since the days of the origins
= / crusaders had there been so WONDERFUL
o / dcmOnStra ton. It stirred THIS country
# had nothing before or since the civil wa
s and as nothing has since the crusade
I ! self
: Mrs. r. D. Stewart, who lead the NOV,
nant was a plain. quiet little Woma'
II whose two salient features were a ma;
IL of very white hair and voice OF leIldi -
able penetration. She mad thoughI . ol u
% IiCUoT question all OF her life, ana II W.
* fifty years or more before her chlluIot
!. / au1SitOn to close the saloons uidIuIt
IL When she began her giJatoh' MlrGH -" ",
'o long before the civil war eEeI Sro+G
Z laughed at her. The pastor OF the MSII!
if dist church which she attended ana !
l. deacons and its members scored az a n
- For tbe seeming impOssibihty of her q
= sire None of the women or ner ddy St
= / read a saloon sign or looked IOWA !
III / carefully shaded windows because II "
he not iadV-Iike to do so. The women W0u
Id I not aid other women 70 prosecute S.
X KEEPERS for selling to drunken huspdi : :
" because il would not have Deen pIOp6li i /
- [ tl7sD1 10 apDear IN court As Tor mafcHl
- | in the streets and holding prayer ms
~ ( ings and knitting bees IN saloons u
would have been mortified al the sugge
ton of such a thing 1t was not uh
Mrs Stewart made herself sensation
- and gathered about her a sInall mai army my,
N drunkards' wives that her own tow
women took an interest In what she Il
to say.
he fact that Mrs. Stewart was able TO ma
I'm, II and to win q victory i'm so doing CIV
- { her a title to fame-whlch indeed she
a far greater woman IMAM MISS W MA
cir since she paved the way ana practlca
-ss / accomplished the organization OF
-" / white ribbon band Having accomplish
ne the work which she set out to do, she
a sisted upon retiring from puphclty q
in | activity which she had assumed oht
called Mother Stewart, ana truly II
nj largest band of women in the world i
ne a mother II Is She-