Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-21
PREACHER SAYS CLUB WOMEN
 BOOZE"
Chicago Minister, Criticized By Fair Sex, Becomes A Little More Specific In His Charges Of IntoNcation.

| CHICAGO. Sept. 20.-Rev. Freder- iek F. Hopkins. pastor of the Pilgrim | Congregational Church, struck back at his women critics.
 The clergyman who stirred up a hornets nest of protest by his charg- ! es shat thousands e ..es.,e.e ssG Chi cago were given over to "booze.g de | livered a broadside retort before congregation which crowded to the doors his church at Harvard avenue and Sixty-fourth stret.
 l Referring to Justice Catherine Waugh MeCulloch of Evanston. to a l daughter of former Senator Mason and to a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. the min ister declared his critics should have known enough to keep their mouths shut.
 l The congregation had barely recoY- l cred its breath when it was given an- other shock in the form of a frank statement by Mr. Hopkins that he did not desire the acquaintance of the wo- men who had found 1t necessary to l criticize him for his attack upon | iIisuor.
 As a climax the clergyman, walking 1 back and forth on the platform. and in a tone which carried to the remot- l est corner of the church building made the flat charge that one of his many women critics was so drunk at her club last winter that she offered three times in one day to pay her dues.
 No names were mentioned by Mir.
 Hopkins while on the platform, and it was later he said that Justice Nc 1 Cullooh, a daughter of former Sena- tor Mason and a second vice regent of the Daughters of the American Re yolution were among those referred l to by him in his first remarks. II MT. Mason, in his home later, den- jed that any of his three daughters eyer had heard of MT. Hopkins The latter in his sermon lost little time in preliminary remarks before he opened up'' on those who differ from hip.
 Tn the hundreds Of letters that l
 have received since last Sunday" he said, there has been no word of criti- cism of my attitude toward women and booze that was written by man.
 With the women, however, it has ben different and it has greatly sur iBrised me to find the very ones for WHCm dIl NDEhiuS NilillS anu ISdNg to criticise. By public statements and through personal letters women
 have voiced complaint against nly
 attitude.
 But when a daughter of an ex-
 senator, a justice of the peace in Evanston and member of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution go iput of their way to criticise this
 Nork. it is time for. me to say that they might at least ee in better Eusi mess.
 "The former senator's daughter, understand, has stated that I must
 have been very unfortunate in my
 women acquaintances. The Daughter of the American Revolution. I hear. has publicly stated that at the next meeting of the society. which will he
 held in October. Dr. Hopkins will be
 compelled to make an abject arology
 and that he is merely 'four-flusher
 and 'bIuffer.' anyhow. Thank you, sister. thank you.
 If the personal habits of my accus-
 CTS are in accord with their respec- tive expressions concerning the sub ject under discussion l do not want their acquaintance" were MT. Hop kias' words in expressing disinclin- ation to meet his critics socially.
 Moreover, I am informed that one of my many women critics was so