The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-03
FORCEFUL TALKS
ON PROHIBITION
Strong Resolutions Adopted at
Mass Meeting in Salt
Lake Theatre.
WOMEN GIVE THEIR VIEWS
EVILS OF TRAFFIC DEPICTED BY
MANY SPEAKERS.

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. Madam Chairman. Your com
g mittee on resolutions begs leave to
Z: submit the following report, and
g move its adoption
q Asserting that the proper powers
2 Of government are derived from
. the consent and originate in the
s. desires Of the governed;
2 Recognizing that these powers
2 should be exercised for the great
q est good of the greatest number;
. Realizing that the purpose of
. wise laws I'm every land and age
. has been 10 promote the moral
q: health and material welfare of the
g people;
g Believing that all the lessons Of
=: history and ali the results Of ex-
9 perieuce show the demoraiizing
&: and degrading effects Of the use of
Z. liquor upon the individual. the
Q home, the community and the
g. state.
- And noting that the enlightened
. and progressive public sentiment
. of the present day is everywhere
. agitatiug for the restraint and
:. control Of this common enemy of &
. the race;
9 Therefore we. who are this day
. assembled in public mass meeting,
{. declare our determine son and I'M
@ compromising hostility TO the sa-
(: loon:
g We declare our desire that It
. snail no longer find a lawful foot
@ hold within the borders of our
g commonwealth:
g We affirm the belief that release
o from its baneful influence wilt
{. bring happiness and prosperity in
9, place of sorrow and distress. and
{: will advance morality. good order
g and pure and patriotic Christi
O anity;
Q We call upon those engaged in
9 the manufacture and sale Of
@ liquor to cease CheerfuIly and vol
g unfairly from this dreadful trafic
@ in the souls of men;
9 And believing that we voice the
9 feelings of the Overwhelming ma
9 jority OF the people Of Utah, We
. respectfully demand Of our law
g makers, now in session, that they
g place upon the statute books such
9 a measure as may truthfuily be
q deemed a law IN favor Of IN
q equivOcaI and absolute prohibition.
g MRS. ANNIE NJ. CANNON,
Q Chairman.
q MRS. NELLIE WALKER,
9 MRS. SUSA YOUNG GATES,
. MRS. MAY BOOTH TALMAGE,
9 MRS. RACHEL MILLER,
9 MRS. ]. Z. HALL.
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Unanimously at mass meeting {
the club women Of Salt Lake, held q
the Salt Lake theatre yesterday after
noon, the above resolutions, drafted
the committee which was named by tn
president Of the meeting. Mrs. q. Z
Mcmahon, president Of the Women
Civic league. on motion Of Mrs. Emme
line 3. Wells. were adopted, 10 on
gave utteTance to dissent.
The meeting was largely attcnde,
the body Of the theatre and first tvs
galleries being we'll filled. The poinI
made by the various speakers weT
generously applauded. a number {
members OF the legislature were on Oh
stage, together with many promincr
club women. and also Apostles Hebe
J. Grant and Hyrum NJ. Smith % IN
Mormon church.
The program included. besides lh
Oratory. a number Of musical number
Mrs. Ruth NJ Fox of the Y. L. ~.
A, Mrs. Peter A. Simpkin Of the ". {
T. L., Mrs. Z. Z. Shepard and the Re-
f 3. Short.
The Rev. Herbert Hays Of the Fir:
Presbyterian church opened the NEE
ing with prayer. This was followed L
a solo by Mrs. G. q. Plummer. Help
Little"
Nephi l. Morris, the first speake
said he did not profess to be an Cxpel
on the liquor question, bat presume
that any person Of ordinary observe
ton who had lived in this commUnit
could not be oblivious to the ssiOo
evil, The merchant fsvOrs prohibition
said Mr. Morris. because he finds theI
is money in It. The women Of the cour
try have taken side with the snti-sa
loon movement almost without exccT
ton; and a woman in Salt Lake VII
was asked to subscribe to a prohibits
petit on. and whose husband was ]
the brewing business. said she wOui
sacrifice her husband rather than sacr
fee her principle
Dir. Morris said that one Of the mos
potent factors in the prohibition move
ment had been the salOonkeeper, be
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