New-York tribune., 1902-02-15
WOMEN AND THE SALOON,
HEALTH PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
FINDS FAULT WITH THE
ADMINISTRATION.

Spring cleaning was energetically begun yester-
day by the Brooklyn Womens Health Protective
Association at its monthly meeting. The subject
4o7 consideration nothing smaller than the
new administration" and criticism was frank
and free"
The Sunday opening question was discussed at
greater length than any other. Mrs. Andrew J.
Perry "set the ball rolling as follows " How not
10 do Il seems 10 be the motto Of the new admin
istration. II is promoting economy and curtailing
the citys expenses. but is it promoting good morals
and curtailing vice? To tell the public that laws
cannot be enforced and that effort Will be made
TO try 10 enforce them. seems to me to be de-
structive Of good government and provocative Of
lawlessness. Being mere woman I fail to
prehend why moral Christian men. elected TO
form z community. should Immediately discrimi-
nate against the laws that. if carried out. would
DO more toward redeenng the city, reducing crime,
promoting thrift, health and peace than any
other.
The logic Of their position is in itself remark
able. Jerome says that if the question Of Sunday
opening Of saloons were submitted TO the people
il would be defeated by a fifty thousand majority.
Yet he fathers a bill permitting Sunday opening,
and Dr.. Rainsford says that. even if there was
majority OF fifty thousand opposed TO the saloons,
they ought TO be opened. One would think from
this utterance from Christian pulpit that open
saloons are as important as open churches. The
poor mans club? The poor mans curse say
Hearty applause showed the general feeling Of
agreement when Mrs. Perry said further: why
have these preachers and teachers Of ethical cult
ure nothing to say for the wife of the poor work
ingulan? He has an eight hour day. She has an
eighteen hour day usually. 1t would seem more
Christian to encourage the man to spend his
money in trying 10 make his home pleasanter
Man does not need to have his selhshness devel-
oped It is all therei Just submit the question OF
Sunday opening TO the poor mans wife before the
matter is considered settled"
Mrs Perry thought that the argument that. as
g1TG IA hf-
repealed, might as well be applied TO any other
law Some people will always steal. therefore
let make il legal 70 steal at certain times, and
thus the law viii not be broken so constantly"
In the course OF the discussion that followed
Mrs. Perry's address. a member suggested that
Mahometan missionaries are needed here, as there
Is esq oS':-'i. 10 tAlS mere SaS q S5SaSe Wiz
pere6" addition by another that the Mahometan
polygany seems safely established and We may
as well nave the rest Of it
Mrs. scrimgeour. the president, said: We all
know that If a law is not enforced there is a rea-
son for its not being done We won't lmPute a
motive any individual but there is something
1setv n CgIiliht4Ls ~ d a Wy Jpn
aonlnistra ton, she said: i believe the admins
traticn be thoroughly honest, but in the Sun
Rease certain class tnat ought hot 10 De PieaSeo'
Il the best interests Of the city are served
Ihe meeting adopted a resolution declaring that
the present Sunday law can be and shaIl be en-
The association is not satisfied with the new
Commissioner Of Street Cleaning, ana thinks that
six weeks is long enough to have effected an i'm
provenelt. An effort made TO discuss
The Police Department, but the members lost them
selves II the maZes Of the two platoon and
three platoon problems As nobody had the
ghost OF an idea as TO what they meant, MIS-.
Scrimgeour finally said that probably Commis-
sioner Partridge understood the matter and would
The bridge crush was commented upon. but the
SUBJECT was too large TO be handled and the only
compel people TO stand in line and, if necessary,
arrest the men who form themselves into a flying
wedge and crush anybody who stands in their