The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-08

passed through all the trials OF the
church and is competent to speak.
He received his endowments at the
hands of the founder of the church and
is the only living apostle of the num-
Der who came here with the Saints
We are living in a remarkable time;
time when the discoveries of science
seem to have almost a. supernatural
character The things which our chill
dren regard as common were a few
years ago remarkable to us and we
are at the threshold of the door of new
discoveries. We must learn that all
knowledge comes from God and that
He is but manifesting Himself to us.
Temperance Mass Meeting.
Lyceum theatre was comfortably fill
ed last night by an appreciative audi
ence which listened to scholarly dis
course on "Citizenship-Its Duties and
Dangers by Caroline Linte Stevenson,
corresponding secretary of the natlonspl
organization of the Woman s CHRISTIAN
Temperance Union. Miss Stevenson
is a pleasing speaker of more thah
ordinary talent and was given the
closest attention by her auditors during
the hour and half she spoke.
The meeting opened with a duet by
two little folks and this was followed
by a charming solo by Miss Sabin.
Judge George F. Goodwin. then intro
duced Miss Stevenson, and In dong
so briefly referred TO the organization
of the white ribbon movement twenty
two years ago. 1t was the pleasure OF
Utahs only temperance league to pre-
sent tonight one of the w c. T. U. s
staunchest and most distinguished
workers.
Miss Stevenson dealt with her sub
| ject from broad standL ONT. She went
/ back TO the time of the Roman en-
oire and held that the Romans had
| greater conception of true citizenship
than the people of more modern times.
! The speaker then gradually traced the
progress of governments up to the pres
ent time and made the deduction that
under our own form of government
citizenship was wrought with greater
responsibilities as we'll as greater op-
/ portunities than any other government
under the sun She had no room for
the idle talk that our government was
failure. To upset such theory she
only had to refer to the early struggles
for freedom, the gradual acquisition of
territory and the marvellous progress
and DEVELOPMENT until we have taken
a front rank among the nations OF the
earth. Our government had not been
a failure in the past, but its success in
the future depended upon the actions
| of the men and women who made up
the naSion.
Among the dangers to our govern
! ment the speaker characterized those
abstract in their nature to be most
feared and hence most to be remedied
One of the greatest Of these was COM
placency. Some one had said that
God takes care of three things-child-
/ TToit rof nc
There might be some truth in such a
saying and still it was bad principle
to inculcate into growing generations
No government should be content with
the Observation-Disclosures theory. II
should always strive for progress
greater victories and grander posi-
bilities. Too much of the partisanshiI
spirit was another danger A lack Of
interest in politics by the business mar
was another, and too much laundering
after public Office by the professional
politician was still another danger
Miss Stevenson contrasted the picture
of George Washington reluctantly ac-
cepting the highest position in the gift
of our people to the scramble for sucf
an office during the present day.
The speaker then came to what Sht
termed the greatest of all dancers r
our government-the liquor traffic and
intemperance. She spohe OF l..es~ e.
in this order because she contendet
that intemperance was the result o
the traffic as surely as the law of caus'
and effect was true. The traffic in
creases intemperance; remove it AM
intemperance will nearly if not en-
tirely pass away. Miss Stevenson de
cried the idea that the traffic wa
necessary on account of the de
nand, believing that the supply in thi
instance regulates the demand and nc
vice versa The traffic was dangerou
TO the national government, becaus
its stronghold is politics. 1t has a griI
on the nation, well organized an
ready to do battle to everything tha
seeks to overthrow its power. If tt
saloon is in politics then the polite
emanating from the saloon must of NJ
cessity be saloon politics. Today we al
confronted with the spectacle of tt
saloon entrenched behind law, through
the agency of politics.
Lastly the menace to the church
Christ which the existence of the 81
loon causes. In speaking of this phas
of the question she desired tc have
applied in its broadcast sense, takir
. in all the denominations. Gradually IL
church was coming to the point whel
its members prayed like angels, bl
voted with the saloon keeper. tt
speaker read an extract from a journ
published in the interest of the liqua
traffic wherein it was stated that Il
opposition to prohibition had nothir
to fear from church members actu
statistics showing that only two p
cent. of its membership vote for tn
banishment of the grog shop. The
may pass resolutions pledging to wol
against the saloon. but when it com
/ TO the ballot box they deposit OF
marked the same as the man in the g.
7 joining stall-the liquor dealer
Miss Stevenson was accorded liber
: applause at the close of her address
t DR.. Tiff was called upon and made
collection talk, after which the Y. !
: c. A. quartette rendered a selectio