Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-02
TEMPE |: FRANCE THEME:
OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Well Attended Meeting Held Yes
terday at First Congrega-
tionaI Church.
FARMING LOCAL OPTION BILL
Measure Will lie Presented 10 tie
Coming session OF the
Legislature.

The Young Peoples societies OF the
salt LAX. Evangelical churches held
we'll attended temperance meeting yes
terdaN afternoon. in the First Congre-
sationaI church. secy. Mumford Of
the Salt Lake Christian union told
how 400 members OF the young peoples
societies were backing up the move
ment To abolish the saloon. and said q
local option bill wculd be presented to
the next legislature. Rev. l.. S Bower
man of the Emmanuel Baptist church
said:
THE question Of the anti-saloon
movement is a vast one All kinds of
experiments have been tried in past
years TO cope with the evil. No license,
high license. the dlspensary and state
prohibition have all been tried, but
more, of those methods accomplished all
that was desired. The local option
movement is one OF larger scope and
has been found to be more successful.
Fifteen hundred saloons have been
wiped out in Illinois alone in the past
few months by local option. The best
way of attending temperance is by a
great system of educating the people up
TO its benefits and advantages
Unless the moral sentiment OF a
community is back OF local option, such
legislation would not have the desired
effect and would be practically NIL
Big cities such as Chicago. New York
or Boston are not ripe for temperance,
but Salt Lake is The temperance
movement here. ii properly conducted
and vigorously pushed. Will be crowned
with success. ! hope to see the day
when there will be national prohibition
in the United states l hope to see
the time when that curse of humanity.
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great country We stand committed
to no party or no candidate in this
temperance movement in Salt Lake.
but Me will commit ourselves to the
man who has the moral backbone to
fight the saloon and hight It to the end"
Rev. p. a. Simpkn of the Phillips
church said:
This temperance has neither pollti-
cal nor religious significance. 1t Is n
movement for the whole people, for
their bettermant and their uplift, and
is and oughtto be above partisan poll
tics. 1t Is the attempt to solve the
great moral question which enters into
our public life. There is no use OF en-
acting legislation Behind which there
Is no continent Morals can be regulat-
ed by laws. but they cannot be leGis-
lated into the people. The sentiment
OF every rightlivfng and good-thinking
man ought to be behind the temperance
movement. and they ought to indorse
the values gained by advanced temper
ance legislation. The big brewers of
the country have given their assent to
the betternent Of the liquor business.
They acknowledged recently that part OF
the saloon business had fallen into the
hands OF INSCRIPTIONS men, men with
out morals. They have expressed their
desire to weed those men out of the
business. We think the best way Is to
abolish the saloon evil entirely.
we believe that we can achieve leg
5islation that will solve the saloon evil
here. We think that dens and dives
and low saloons-and there is no ques-
ton but that they exist-can be Grad
icated. The temperance movement
here if successful. will be the salvage
OF many lives which are annually vast
ed because of the poisonous stuff which
unscrupulouS saloon proprietors sell
Local option viii not only mean sal
va ge of lives, but q salvage of character
and finances. We ought to realize that
nothing affects the economic life more
than the saloon. Our greatest loss
caused BY the liquor interests is the
loss OF Young mems characters. We are
ready for temperance in Salt Lake. We
are ready for legislation that will drive
the dives and dens out of existence"
There We're also speeches by Rev. F.
Is. Short, Samuel Russell and N. D.
Corser. with musical program that
was much admired.
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