The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-15
WELT ARE LEAGUE
ASKS QUESTIONS
Will Expect Every Candidate
for Civic Office to Set
Forth Attitude.
READ REPLIES TONIGHT
Mass Meeting Will Be Ad-
dressed by Seattle Publicist
and Dr.. E. G.. GoWanS.

me women Nclfarc league, as the
organization formerly called citizens
committee. is now styled, has mailed
list Of questions 10 every candidate for
civic honors and will read the replies
received at the mass meeting called by
the organization for tonight at the Salt
Lake theater The questions have not
been given ont. ms il was only eonsid-
cred fair that they should first be sub
mitted To the candidates,
The aims ard purposes of the league
will be fully set before the public at
the meeting They are stated to some
extent in the following statement CON
cerning the league and meeting sent
in for publication by those chiefly con
cerned in the organization. Their state
meut reads;
Some weeks ago. 1t a meeting of prom
incnt club women OF salt LAX. CITY,
committee OF ten was formed. having aa
It's object tho mitigating OF the soclal
evils that exist In Salt Lake City today.
harmony with more than one thousand
club women of the city; also the thty
Missionary union the ". 6, T. u. the
Y. w G. \. and the g ". NJ. I. A., an,,
OF Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints
At meeting held in the y. W. {. \:
rooms two weeks ago representatives, nf
the different organizations met with the
| committee ~ ten and pledged their loyal
support agreeing 10 stand by the conf
m,tee in amy action IT saw 1T to take.
Decided ON Mass Meeting.
The committee OF ten went Into eHecu..
| tive session and IL was decided 70 call
| q mass meeting 20 protest against the
continuance OF tne stockade and the
evils that exist in the room!ng houses.
| This mass meeting is TO be held to-
night in the Salt Lake theater al sis
o'clock The principal speaker Of tho
evening will be Joe Smith. prominent
newspaper man Of Seattle. who VIII teI
OF the deplorable condition that existed
in seattle when it had segregated area
under police protection.
Will Tell Seattle's Story.
Nh Smith will tell how the good women
| of Seattle banded together and With his
| help began a campaign against vice that
| resulted in the election Of a mayor pledged
to clean Mp the city. Bc Will also tell
of the methods used TO accomplish this
| end.
ut the mass meeting. He has charge Of
| the State Industrial school at Ogden. but
| IS, as every one knows a Salt Lake man.
| His home is here, and he has practlccd
medicine here for years. His wide eN-
pericnce. gained as judge OF the Juvenile
court, which office he held for two years
previous to his removal 10 Ogden, as
well as his medical experience. makes
| him moro capable than any other man OF
telling the real conditions OF vice as they
exist In Salt Lake City today,
Decry Ignorance.
| Every mother and every father i'm salt
/ Lake CITY who has the welfare of rheir
| sons and daughters at heart should come
| 10 this mass meeting. Every mother who
wants 10 save her daughter from expos
ure TO the greatest of all dangers should
come and learn what this danger really
is II is only ignorance that keeps Ylce
I walking our streets today. Did each and
every mother OF Salt Lake City know
what this vice really is-how IL reaches
out and touches the very door of her
own home she would give every ounce OF
energy that she possesses to aid In TINS
cause OF moral and social righteousness.
We have sat at home too many years ana
waited for social evils 10 right them
| selves.
Call to Women.
Now that the name OF Salt Lake CITY
has gone abroad as city OF pohco-pIo,,
ourselves together and demanded that
| this stigma he removed and that ouIa
| should become known as clean, saio
city that tolerates no such thing rs pros
titution and its kindred evils.
| If every woman who has nome 10
protect could but feel that this call means
her and not her neighbor. the salt Lake
! theater would he filed TO oYsrilowinS Ia. +.
night and before the New Year had
dawned by her help Salt Lake would de-
! serve and have earned the name OF INC
best city TO live in The town Is always
what the majority Of it's citizens demand
thai il shall be- II salt Lake city is To
become clean VIC the good women ana
good men of our city. must tirst OF All
learn Just what this evil Is what Is nee
and demand this regeneration while we
arc vet IN the majority. Coming 10 INC
| mass meeting tonight VIII be the nF5t
. Step In this campaign.