The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-30

effect to the moVem ent. The TWO SeS-
sions yesterday anorning and afternoon
were not very web attended, but they
brought forth several very good pa
pers, among them one by Mrs. Eddy,
of Logan, on the w. c. T. U, and an
other by Rev. Luck, of Ogden, on the
necessity of being p fetical, instead of
above politics. The meeting in the
evening had a much larger attendance
and was enlivened with good music
ana some good speeches on prohibition
gin Dakota.
The convention met. as provided in
The programme. at The temporary
tabernacle north of the Knutsford at
10 o'clock. but as that vas too cold an
adjourn ent was taken to the First
Methodist church. On account of the
delay over this the paper by Rev
Joseph Wilkes on Prohibition in Rela-
ton to the Sabbath was omitted.
Prohibition and Good Government.
A J. Orem delivered an address on
Prohibition in Relation 10 Good Gov
eminent"
The government Will furnish employ
ment to more citizens with prohibition
than without Capital nature lily seeks
investment, and if the liquor business
were destroyed the money invested in
this traffic would find investment in
other industries where it would employ
from three to five times as many men.
Men would find profitable employment
at home instead of having to tramp
across the continent and beg for the
God given right to work. With our
industries and homes shielded from the
bielhting influences of the saloon and
its attendant evils the labor problem
would soon solve itself.
Less Money Expended
With prohibition there is less
energy and money expended in secur-
ing good government In 1890 there
were fOrty-four counties in Kansas
without a pauper and thirty-seven
counties without a criminal in Jail
advocates OF other systems were chal-
!enged 10 show like results. Where is
the justice in taxing good citizens TO
pay for police, prosecuting criminals
and building jails and penitentiaries so
the saloon keeper may run his mill and
turn out his g~ist Of helpless paupers
and criminals?
Like Other Laws.
Prohibition bears the same relation
TO good government as q law against
murder or any law made TO restrain
evil It is not sufficient to say it is
not always enforced. Were the laws
,1at Numbered from Sinai always OBJ
resyed and enforced? No, they were
violated all through the history of the
Israelite nation. Yet who in the light
of that history, would say those laws
should be repealed? Prohibition helps
TO mould public sentiment in its favor
and acts as great moral educator |
Christian orators wax eloquent over
The prOgressiveness Of this christian
age, and point to our almshouses. !
asylums and hospitals as the out
growth and product Of the christian
But the whole christian world |
viii celebrate with THANKSGIVING the
glad day when all these will be robbed
OF their inmates by the beneficial re-
suits of prohibition
This subject was then thrown open
for discussion and Messrs. Clay. Knox. |
NIcNiece and others delivered short ad- |
dresses on the subject.
Rev. 3. F. Clay and Rev. c. r. Rich
ardson were appointed as q. committee
10 prepare a letter to the people set
ing forth the views Of the convention
on prohibition.
Public Men and Morals.
Rev. E. M. Knox read a paper on
The Relation of Public Men to Moral
He said every citizen
should be patriotic and every pubEc
man a good citizen, exerting an ac-
tive influence for good in moral mat
terS- Party strife begets- political eau
~AC-A W @AN4A IMPURE 1ldIlQS gam con- |
troll, democracy gives way to olfgatchy.
as IN New York under Tammany.
Public men were afraid and winked at
corruption The police did not dare
touch the saloons. which controlled
Iammany and the Republican ring.
The press was dumb. Judges, lawyers.
ministers ard other public men were
1aralyzeo by the awful power. Thank
sod there was one noble exception
Rev. Charles Parkhurst, a public man.
the moral question cor
'ectly- Talk of herofsm and patriot
SIN! No hero in our history ever
showed more. Every public man in
me rTsrld should follow that noble ex-
aTnple. At first he was scorned and
ter1ded by other public men and even
eadfng ministers.
Shout After Victory.
Alas Too many public men are
Wiling to shout when the victory is
Won; too few to help mould public
opinion. Too many work on policy and
ire honest only when honesty paws.
they are too often pot-house politi-
Sans or tools Of bosses and the saloon.
They speak beth ways, but, thank
rod! all our public men are not cor
upt. Washington was always honest
nd morally courageous. Abraham ]
lincoln was a moral hero. The only
question with him was. is it right?"
Few public men today exhibit his
moral courage. When things looked
darkest his sublime moral courage
vas highest. He refused to drink in !
oxicatng liquors and regarded "in- 7
as one Of the greatest evils
mong mankind" God raised Lincoln !
D as much as he did Moses, Joshua,
)aniel and Paul.
Too Many Moral towards. (
Public men like Washington, Lin 1
DIN. Greeley and Parkhurst are
eeded now. There were too many
moral towards in the constitutional
invention All honor to the Spartan
ana which voted right. The prohtbi- I
ION forces must unite and teach the
lasses in Utah. Men of moral sta a
una must be found TO fill all Offices. {
rom governor down.
More attention must be given tn '
ne thorough and Systematic educa- =
ON of the young The people must v
g awakened from their lamen+albIa I
snofance of the temperance oues- =
on. The moral forces of the terri !
ny must be thoroughly Organized y
ma all who have the interest of tenn :,
erance at heart Ge put to work. :, =
This was thrown open for general
lscussion and Messrs. Luck, Smith. is
Lartin, Nutting, Clay, AIcNiece and Z
rem and Mrs. Skinner, OF Ogden. D
poke. y
The Mormon Stand. o,
During this discussion there were s.
'me remarks on the stand to be taken g
Y the Mormon peo2le, some of the