The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-06
THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION OF
THE STATE LEAGUE.
An Address BY President George F..
Goodyyin-Believes That Women
VIII Now Shatter the Saturn as
the Lightning Does the Oak.

The first annual convention of the State
Prohibition league convened at the Pres
byterian church last evening, and the
preliminary session was quite interesting.
President George F. Goodwin made an
address, in which he said
little more than a year has elapsed
since the organization of this league.
history has been rapidly made in Utah
during that time. The labors of the con-
stitutional convention which had then
Deen completed were adopted and ratified
by the people at the ballot box, and the
constitution thus adopted by the people
was approved by the president and the
proclamation issued which completed the
Transformation of this territory into the
fair state of Utah, and she took her
honored place in the great siSterhood of
the states of this glorious Union. The
Mormon church has issued its manifesto.
and Cr1tchlow has published his letters;
much discussion. some wise and much
unwise, has been engendered; the line
of demarkation between Mormon and
Gentle is more marked than year ago,
and the prospect of united action. es-
pecially along temperance lines. seems
less favorable than ever before.
If l were to condense into the briefest
language possible the great object and
purposes of this organization, | would put
1t into three words, Outlaw the saloon,
Outlaw the saloon, Outlaw the saloon"
And then by the combined effort of all
good, law-abiding, virtuous citizens ev-
erywhere in this fair state, I would carry
that decree into immediate and final exc
cution.
He then briefly outlined the work ac-
complished by the league during the past
year, giving the number of charter mem
bers, the work accomplished in distrib-
uting and publishing prohibition litera-
ture, the temperance meetings held
throughout the state, and brief outline
of the good work being done by the w.
c. T. q and the Y. P. S. C. E.
He thought the outlook encouraging,
and said:
Within the past year we have seen the
amazing spectacle of Commissioner
laws in the very den of the Tammany
tiger in the city of New York; all the
great church organizations of the coun-
try are coming more and more every year
to recognize and emphasize their undying
hostility to the liquor traffic, and to see
in it not only one of the most inveterate
obstacles to the eyangelization Of the
world, but one of the most insidfous and
dangerous enemies to the safety and per-
petuity OF our great American institu-
tions nearly all the great railroad cor
porations of the country have adopted
very stringent rules against the employ
ment in any capacity of men addicted
to the drink habit, recognizing that the
lives and property entrusted to their
hands cannot be safely left in the hands
of drinking men; knights of Pythias and
other similar secret societies have adopted
rules forbidding membership to saloon
keepers CIR bar tenders: the organization
of Christian citizenship leagues in nearly
all the great cities of the land is a har-
binger of purer politics and the death
knell Of the saloon power in the politi-
cal councils of the nation; over two mil
lion young people in the Y. p. 5. {. Il.
and a million and a quarter in the Ep-
~ Iaac hciT7 c11JI r66 IN
the saloon; the worldwide w. Q. t. T.,
banding the round earth with its ribbons
of white and with a conSecrated Chris
tan membership fast climbing up into the
millions; the very handspring Of whose
existence is the desire to educate the peo-
pie of the world for the final destruction
of the liquor traffic: These are some Of
the mountain tops upon winch the sun sun
clear prophecies of the oncorning OF a
purer and better civilization. Let us then
grid up our armor afresh, take reW
heart of hope and go bravery forward
to the victory that finally awaits the
faithful worker in the temperance cause.
And finally, woman coming into her
rightful INHERITANCE of the franchise,
which firmly believe Will sratter ana
destroy the saloon as the lightning rends
the mighty oak.
Rev. E. NJ. Knox on 1.-THE Obligations
of the Church to Help on the Temperance
Cause" said in part:
has endeavored to throw off all moral
obligation by insolently asking the ques-
ton of the first murderer, Am | my
brothers keeper" The church and the
state have often united in this same false
cry In this dispicable unchristian ano
unpatriotic. way they have tried to throw
off all personal responsibility for the poor
degraded drunkard.
The church especially is 10 be con-
demned for failing to do her duty. Many
of US turn aside when coming in con
tact with some fellow brother or sister
lying by the wayside of life. Why is il
that so few realize the tremendous obi
cation resting upon them?
| The church can come near controlling
public opinion in the United States, anC
when she comes to full realization OF
the awful desolation caused by the saioor
then we'll may King Alcohol tremble.
We must all unite against the common
enemy and labor until prohibition shall
become the law Utah and also Of oul
glorious American union.
General discussion was opened by Prof
W. H. Tibbals, of Salt Lake saying il
part that the church had been undergoing
some changes: 1t was waking UP to it:
responsibilities and it at last realized tina
/ it must offer some inducements to offSe
/ the attractions held out by the saloons
! That was the object of the Y. NJ. C. A
/ and the w. C. T. L. The church mus
| foster such movements if it would sue
| coed in temperance work
The Rev. r. G.. McNiece and Mr.. Scot
| Anderson each spoke at some length il
the general discussion.
The following committees were appoint
ed by the president. Press-Rev. r. G
/ McNiece and Prof W. H. Tibbals; nomin
/ ations, Rev. Joseph Wilkes, Prof. W. H
/ Tibbas and Rev. E. NJ. Knox; resolutions
| Dr. w K Beans. Mrs. j. Wilkes an(
/ W. H. Hutchinson; plan of work. Rev
! r. G. McNiece, G.. w. Martin and Rev
A change in the programme for tomor
| row is announced as follows: Judge "
/ s. Arnold general manager of the Keele!
| cure, will take the place of Bishol
/ Raleigh, and read paper on Drunken
ness, Disease, and the Kelley System
as Cure
The meeting this afternoon convenes a
2 o'clock.
THE TURF.