Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-16
DECLARES WOMEN'S 5
VOTES ARE NEEDED
Or. Locke Says Femininity Should
Demand Suffrage on
Moral Questions
LIQUOR WORST FOE OF HOME
w. C. 7. U. Delegates Take Part
in Special Services at the
Methodist Church
LIQUOR WORST FOE OF HOME


Charles Edward Locke, pastor of the
First Methodist church, last evening
in the convention sermon before the
twenty-seventh convention of the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance union OF
Southern California.
Dr. Locke spoke on the subject
"What the Liquor Traffic Has Done
to Woman and What Woman Can Do
to the Liquor Traffic with the text
from Esther Ala. The church was
crowded with several hundred W. c.
T. T. members in addition to the usual
Sunday evening congregation. He SAID,
in part; -, ,,,
issued by the forces of hell and death
that vast throngs of our fellow citl-
zens should be poisoned. and crippled,
and demented, and demonized, and im-
poverished, and criminalized, and ut
terly debased by the traffic in strong
drink Daily, numberless men, women
and children fall a prey TO the dead
liest evil that ever cursed a Christian
civilization There are waves of sor-
row and tornadoes of grief, and pray
ers for mercy and emancipation rise
day and night to the God of humanity
and heaven.
In the interest of the suffering wo-
manhood of this fair land, wish to IN
uuire tonight, what has the liquor traf-
TIC done TO WOIIId1. 10 II a. II ilNitN
or foe of the womanhood and girlhood
of America? Let the gallant citizens
give attention. AS patriots. men guard
the flag with eternal vigilance against
the traitor within and the enemy with
out; and as knights of the home ana
purity men should nravely attack all
evils which imperil and contaminate,
and enthrall, and make bitter with sor-
rows that will not be assuaged, and
wounds that will not heal, the char
acters and lives of a nations woman
hood and girlhood. A man who Will
not defend a good woman deserves
exile here and the fires of perdition
hereafter.
ATTACKS LIQUOR TRAFFIC
"Woman has a right to be heard on
this subject because the liquor traffic
inValidates the teachings of the home.
It discounts fireside influence and in
struetion when the state legalizes and
protects the manufacture and sale of
fntoxicating drinks. The liquor busi-
ness is utterly at variance with the
principles of character as inculcated
in the home 1t Is the mother instinct
to defend her home and her children,
and woman has inalienable rights con-
cerning temperance reform when She
must assert and will continue to claim
until her demands shall be recognized
by a tardy and cursed people. Our
nation will be compelled to choose be-
tween the saloon and the home; the
bartender and the mother; the
gambling table and the fireside; hell
and heaven"
Just as the women of some of the
states have demanded and been granted
the right to vote on school questions,
so the women of this country should
universally ask for the right to vote
on great moral issues We will not at
this time need to approve or disap-
prove of suffrage for women, as po-
litical right but if there is any logic
in school suffrage for women, because
the school is closely related to the
home, and because most of the teachers
are women, precisely the same reason
ing can be followed with reference to
moral questions. The drink evil Is
alarmingly close to the home; it has to
do with the health and peace of the
home; it's blighting effects appear in
the diseases and depravity and mental
degeneration of the children; the wives
and mothers are its saddest victims.
The liquor traffic ought not to be in
politics. The saloon has no more right
in politics than the county pest house;
whisky is no more a political factor
than the bubonic plague. Therefore
women ought to demand for them
selves, and men ought to cOncede to
III.
ments to the constitution to control and
finally destroy this octopus of drink"
PRIZES GIVEN YOUNG FOLKS
In the afternoon a young peoples
service was held in the church. Miss
NJ. A. Stewart state young peoples
secretary, presiding. Members of the
young peoples branch furnished music
and Vera Reyes of Riverside gave a
Bible interpretation Arthur Cater,
president of the Christian Endeavor un-
ion, gave greetings in behalf of that
organization, which were responded to
by Miss Ethel Metcalf.
A prize for the best essay was award
ed to Paul Ryder of San Diego for the
best grade school essay. This was the
Gideon Stewart prize of 80 The essay
was read by Edmund c. Jaeger.
Torsten Magnuson won the high
school prize and was presented with the
DIR. E. S. Chapman prize of $40. Miss
Solena Savery won the college prize for
Pomona college and received the Es-
telle Doheny prize of $50.
The principal event Of the afternoon
was the address of J. II. Francis, prin-
cipal of the Los Angeles Polytechnic
high school, VINO gave short but elo-
Quent address on Efficiency" stating
that the greatest problems Of the world
today were in the hands of the women.
Prof Francis prefaced his address
by saying that he was slightly i'll at
ease in a pulpit, and not addressing
young people, and then said.
Efficiency is the great thing In the
world, and inefficient life is a burden
For young people with good health, a
definite purpose is the only safeguard.
1.-THE temperance problem is as broad
as life itself, and is not confined to the
moral and sentimental side alone The
underlying principle is good health We
pay a good deal of attention to the sci
ence of production and exchange, the
great problem of distribution has re-
ceived it's share of thought, but what
little thought is given to the problem
of consumption for which the life blood
is spent!
"To the women Is given the greatest
problem, that of clothing, feeding and
housing. 1t has been looked upon as a.
burden, and has not been appreciated
as a scientific fact that the preparation
of food can do most in the civilization
of man. The temperance problem is
only side issue to the great food
problem"
The convention sessions will be re-
sumed at o'clock this morning with a
conservation service. This will be fol-
lowed by reports from the various de-
partments. This afternoon current
events" will be the principal feature
the convention to close in the evening
with a double medal contest to be held
I'm Blanchard hall.