The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-25

Saloons are enticing. The young men
are being drawn into those places,
where they are being contaminated.
Their presence is injurious to the
public. Shall we stand up like men
and do all we can to stop this evil
in our midst?
Driver Makes n Hummer.
Driver, of Weber, said If prohibition
could make all the people water
drinkers he would favor it. But 1t
cannot. If the word of wisdom in the
Doctrine and Covenants could not
make temperance men then how could
the provision in the constitution do
it? This would simply make men
sneaks. 1t will make liars and frauds.
up to the knowledge that intemper-
ance is dangerous. Some of the good
ladies of the Relief society come to
him and say they need wine He
gives it, and they say, God bless
YOU Their husbands come in and
buy the wine, and they say, You are
a sinner That is the difference be-
tween giving and selling. There is
no more bruising of wives heads
from a glass or two of wine than
there is from hearing a minister abus-
a coTnmotion in the congregation
A recess was taken from II to 2
o'clock.
Prohibition Will Not Prohibit.
On reconvening Evans, of Weber.
said there was no doubt of the evlis
of LIQUOR drinking nor that crime
would be greatly lessened in the world
if the manufacture and sale of intoxi-
eating drinks could be stopped. But
he did not believe prohibition would
actually prohibit.
Coray-Do not the prohibition laws
of the United States prevent the sale
Of liquor to the Indians?
Evans-That law is more rig1dly en-
forced than most prohibition measures
and yet 1 do not hesitate to say that
it fails in large degree as do the
same laws in Kansas and Iowa.
Miller-Do you mean to say that pro-
hibition is a. failure in Iowa?
Evans-Yes. to a very considerable
extent.
Miller Exploding like a cracker)-I
deny it, sir. 1 deny it.
Hollow Mockery.
Evans continued that the nation
must take up the question before there
it would have to be made international
before the solution would be found.
The only course was to let the moral
forces work. Prohibition in Utah
would be a hollow fnockery. Men, not
allowed to get liquor openly, will get
it secretly. Besides this provision
would endanger the constitution.
There is already a great feeling
against statehood and it would not be
wise to bring against it the feeling
that would come from a prohibitory
law.
Prohibition Thriving.
Miller, of Sewer, said he was glad
to see prohibition in such a thriving
condition. It will grow. The argu-
ments brought against it are only a
threshing over of old straw. Prohibi-
is man at the helm who will enforce
the laws. 1t has succeeded in Iowa
and Kansas so far as it has been
enforced.
Miller, who had been going along in
a series of explosive bursts, sugges-
tive Of the festivities of the Chinese
New Year. suddenly turned on Driver
Driver Viciously Attacked.
He said Driver was not a very close
observer. IT have seen the gentleman
when he was very warm under the
collar because of beer he continued.
Kiesel-I call the gentleman to order.
the suddenness of the attack)-That is
not true.
Miller with another reverberating
explosion)-Yes it is true. 1 heard the
gentleman ask someone if he had baen
in the Black Hawk war.
Rap. went the chairnnan's gaveI.
Driver jumped to his feet perfectly
livid and shaking with anger.
That is not he began
Rant raOf went tho ravai oe-oir
Varian (emphatically from the chair
The gentleman from Sewer must not
make such reuarksi The gentleman
will sit down!
. Driver with emphasisl-But I wish
to protest.
Rap! went the gave1.
The gentlemen are out Of ORDER"
said the chairman.
at Is n Lie"
Driver (continuing)-The accusation
is falsei 1t is liel
Rap again went the gavel.
Varian-Gentlemen must be In order,
They must pay attention to the chair.
This proceeding must stypl
Miller (smiling in a superior manner)
Il did not want to cast any reflection.
I wanted to call the gentleman's at
tention to something that did trans
pire.
OTlESI-lI is a QdSJdrQlE lie.
Had Been There Himself.
Again Miller went on like a minia-
ture cloudburst. He said that the power
of drink is terrible. Turning from his
desk and rushing almost onto the re-
porters' tables his arms waving in close
proximity to their heads, his
face shining with his vehemence
and every muscle in his body
fairly trembling he burst ont
in all the strength of his heavy
voice. ST have been victim of the vice
of drink. Like the gentleman from
closed by saying the people had asked
to vote on the question and their
voices should be heard.
LOgan's Terrible Experience.
Thatcher said he could not under
estimate the evil of the liquor traffic.
In England and America it has been
a greater scourge than war or pesti-
lence. The English and Americans
drink more every year than their food
would cost. All the merchant wealth of
England could be swept away with
one calamity, and if the people Should
save their drink money they could re-
build it all again. He recalled the ter
rible time twenty years ago when, in
Logan. one man had been murdered,
another lynched. and a girl had killed
herself. They were three sacrifices to
liquor. With that in view Logan would
do anything to extinguish the traffic.
Scattered, Not Killed.
But Logan had found that sumptu-
airy laws will not make men good In
stead of three saloons Logan had Six
teen dives under prohibition. The ex-