The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-11
TEMPERANCE.
BY C. S. BURNETT.

Through the courtesy or the Editor, L
am to be allowed certain space weekly to
present the subject of Temperance" to
you, ard it seems proper that "define
my position" as politicians say, in
order that there may be a fair under
standing between US.
Allow me to say right here that I do
not expect any one of you to egree with
all l shall say, but do hope by pursu-
ing a conservative course to avoid all
offense. AS 1 would have my own feel :
ings regarded, my own convictions re-
spected, L will not knowingly wound
those of another.
First am to be responsible for all
statements and thoughts expressed,
unless the name of a writer is given
with the article. If you wish to reply
to anything, write to me, and do not
annoy the editor.
Second-This column shall be. as far
as possible, free from every thing that
is of a narrow, partisan nature. with
malice towards none, and charity for
all" let US think, and let think.
Third-The editor is always at liberty
to reject an article which he think is
unfit for publication,
Fourth-My object in yielding to re-
quests of the friends of temperance
and taking upon myself this additional
labor is to arrest the thought" of read
ers, and thus lead to further investi-
CATION of this subject
FIfth-My reasons for SO doing are
that the work being done flor God and
home and native land" has assumed
such importance, that it ought to BIZ
represented in every paper in our land.
If our workers are not willing to as
sumo this responsibility, and do this
work, we have no right to complain if
our Lapers are silent upon the subject
of so much interest to us. While an
editor may wish that his paper will
publish just what he or his psrty
wants, he has no right to censure
man for being true to his principles 80
long as his convictions are thai be and
his party are right On this question.
Sixth-As to my creed, il is this: /
believe in the absolute prohibition of
the liquor traffic as soon as that is nos
sible. Until that can be done, believe
in all possible regulation and restriction
of the traffic with view to its ultimate
destruction. L believe in the largest
liberty OF thought and expression. A
full and free discussion aloae will change
the conviction of honest men. The
time for denunciation is past; people
now want facts and figures. Our ma
ton is now passing through such a
revolution of thought as has never oc-
Cured since the agitation that preceded
the abolition of slavery. Since corrup-
ton and vice silently creep into the best
gov rnments, free people must ever
agitate for reform. Stagnation Of
are public is death But shall
be true to myself, and express my own
convictions with perfect freedom. be-
lieving that neither the reader nor the
editor would respect writer who would
do otherwise.
Now, please do. not pass this column
by, because it has such a dull heading
as Temperance. Read 1t and think
while you read. Ii what shall write
one week does not please you, perhaps
the next will. [ do not like dull read
ing any better than you GO, and | want
you to help me make this column one
of the most interesting in the paper.
You can do this by sending notices of
meetings or any item pertaining to
diIO NAV A1cJ NO1AO 11oC1 JOul
observation. need the help of all
friends of our cause, and that means
you all, hope, because the task I have
is a difficult one, and the
position very responsible one.
TEMPERANCE.
What is temperance? Many good
people think it is the moderate use OF
any thing, but the word has lost this
if it ever had it. Temperance
IS 1.-The moderate use of good thing,
but total abstinence from all that is in
furious" No one to-day advocates
teaching the young that the moderate
use Of alcohol in any form is beneficial
to the human system. The most any
one claims is that it is not always in
furious, but these same persons say
that to the young it is attended with
danger, and no father desires his son to
form the habit lest it leads to excess.