The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-15

beverage, and tobacco in all its forms
| as luxury or habit, are evils of such
enormity that they may be said to en-
brace all others; they are certainly I'M
like all others; they wound wherever
man is vulnerable.
THE millions of working men, who
like the millions of Prohibi.ionists,
have been asking in vain for the reform
that the age demands are steadily fall
ing into line, any standing with us,
shoulder to shoulder. The army thus
composed will tread down the pestiIent
saloons, and also correct the existing
abuses, by which capitalists are favored
and laborers oppressed.
GARFIELD said ten years ago: The
man who attempts to get up political
excitement in this country on the old
sectional issues will find himself with
out party and without support. The
man who wants to serve his country
must put himself in the line of its lead
ing thought, and that is the restoration
of business, trade, commerce, industry,
sound political economy, hard money
and honest payment of all obligations,
and the man who can aid anything in
the direction of the accomplishment of
any of these purposes is a public bene-
factor.-Er. Mr.. Garfield did not in
clude cheap tobacco and a perpetual
whisky traffic in the list of his public
benefactors.
IF the Christian Church to-day would
make all other questions subordinate
and can control its entire strength and
energy towards overthrowing the rum
power the work would be done in less
than a decade, and then her hands
would be free to fight Satan in his
minor strongholds. Our people seem TO
think the open saloon of little concern
to them. Our young men are here
tempted to vice and crime, and so led
on by the example OF those in high po-
sltion, yet warning voice is scarcely
raised. The work of the church to-day
is to make one united attack by press,
voice and vote upon the saloon, the
greatest fee to its progress and the
deepest disgrace of the nineteenth CEN
fury.
So long as Christian nations send out
shiploaOs Of rum with every missionary
just so long will little progress be made.
The people are wise in preferring
honest, sober Mohamedanism to this
kind of Christianity. But some one
says "This rum is not sent out by
Christians" That may be, but the
Christians vote for, and thus sanction
the traffic at home, and from here it
is sent abroad. If Confuclani m can
save China and Mohamedanism can
save 200 100000 people from drunken
ness cannot Christianity save Christec
dom2 Yes, but in only one way-by
total abstinence and total prohibition
Of all that can intoXicate. B.
Jesse GUAM vIDERI."
ITO be rather than to SEEM" was q
favorite maxim OF the ancients. Ii
seems in our day to be aim ost lost sight
OF, so anxious are men to appear TO
good advantage before their neighbors.
TIE world should be interested more
to know what we are than what we do.
Down deep are the hidden springs of
character, and almost spontaneously
these burst in word and deed. To be.
How much significance in these words.
They should move US as no others. To
be what? A man; a VOnldn. To be all
| God meant we should be, the noblest
and best of creations myriad wonders.
To be pure and true in every relation
| in life. The ancients were right. Let
our motto be: "Esse guam videri."