The San Francisco call., 1908-03-18
TO ENFORCE MORALITY

storm, follows in part:
TO ENFORCE MORALITY
In the first place we have been taught
by men we regard as fathers of law
that government is established not to
confer rights men, but to provide
means of protecting the rights men
already have. Men in a state of na-
ture in their conduct toward fellow
men were governed solely by the moral
law. because of the appctites and pas
sions of men 1t became necessary to
fix some means of establishing right
on one hand and wrong on the other.
In other words, to provide a means Of
enforcing the moral law.
IL that be the purpose of govern
ment these principles must be inforccd
on their own standard and not ON
others, because to inforce them ON any
other standard fl NOT to infOrce them
at all, but TO provide a means of evad-
ing the standard.
In other words, 1t is impossible for
a thing to be morally wrong and at
the same time be legally right.
Judge Artman arrived in San Fran
cisco yesterday morning and will take
an active part in the three days tenn
perance convention which was begun
at Christian Science hall last night.
Rev. II. II. Bell of the United Presby-
terian church presided at the banquet
and Judge Altman was introduced by
Judge Morrow of the federal court
Among those present were:
DISTINGUISHED MEN PRESENT
Chief Justice Beatty, Judge Bridge
man, Walter Macarthur, Rev Hugh w.
Gilchrist, Rev. r. A. Doane, Rev. e. S..
Chapman. Rev George w. Burlingame,
Rev J. w. Fisher, Rev. A. c. Bane. Rev.
f. r. Ollie, Rev. d. A Mobley. Rev. H.
H. Bell, Rev. ]. S. Thomas, Rev. l.. s..
Carter. Rev. f. r. Willis, Rev. s. D.
Hutsenpillar, Rev. J. N. Waltz Rev. r..
w. Clampett, Rev. R. L. Cave, and
Joseph Hutchinson, his brother and son
3. w. Dobbins. Isidor Jacobs. DR.. j.
L. Rigdon, DR.. e. S. Williams, DR.. F. W.
William NJ. Bell. J. H. Mccoy of the Y.
M c. A, Rolla v. Watt, w. J. Bradshaw,
A. S. Johnston, G. A. Mattern, e. s.
Bostwick, Donald Mackenzie, A. McCar-
roll, George c. McDougall and Charles
Adams.
Judge Artman was present at the
opening of the temperance convention
last night. President David Starr Jor-
dan of Stanford university delivered the
address of the occasion. In part he said:
LIQUOR WASTES STRENGTH
People of the world are beginning to
realize how much of their strength has
been taken away by liquor 1t has
wasted a third of the strength of
America When San Francisco becomes
dry only one one -thousandth will be
wasted. have every once In while
to sign recommendations for college
students, but those young men who
have been intoxicated need not come
to me for my recommendation, for COR
porations and men of business will not
take them.
Thousands of young men In San
Francisco are yearly running themselves
and their opportunities with liquor.
The motive of all kinds of vice is an
attempt to get happiness for nothing.
But the drinking man doesn't really
get it. I want to repeat now what I
have said many times before: 1t is the
duty of every young man in San Fran
cisco so to live that in the years to
come he will develop into the man that
he was meant to become and ought to
have become had he not wasted his
nerves and brain with tipping and kim
dred vices"
The convention will continue this
morning at o'clock. Tonight Walter
Macarthur will speak on 'The Attitude
of the American Labor Movement on
the Liquor Question" and Judge Art
man will deliver an address.