Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-16
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Elder III. j. Grant Delivers Eloquent
Temperance Lecture.

Elder ii. j. Grant Delivers Eloquent
Temperance Lecture.
| The second session of the conference
| convened in the Tabernacle, commence
| ing at 2 o'clock. The large congrega-
! ton present listened to a strong and
eloquent discourse by Elder Heber j.
Grant of the council of the apostles.
| Seldom has more forceful temperance
| lecture been heard in the historic au-
| ditorium.
The speaker contended that 1t is high
| time that the people of this state
| Joined In the great prohibition move
| ment that is sweeping the country, Il
| sentiment that he reiterated emphati-
| cally, In a private conversation at the
| close of the meeting.
President Nephi L. Norris presided
over the services, Elders William As
per and Albert w. Davis Offering the
opening and closing prayers. The selec-
lions rendered by the choir We're: For
the Strength of the Hills We Bless
Thee" "Ye Simple Souls Who Stray"
and Lift Up Your Heads oh Ye
Gates"
ELDER HEBER j. GRANT,
Elder Grant read n portion of the
first section of the Doctrine and Gov
enants. In commenting upon the vers-
es read the speaker drew particular at
tention to the words contained therein
that when the Lord shall come. men
shall be recompensed according to their
works while in mortality.
The seth section of the Doctrine and
Covenants, known as the Word of Wis
dom, was referred to by the speaker,
who said that, at the risk of being con-
sidered dry. he would devote part of
his discourse TO the reading of certain
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lowing very unusual advertisements of
Tombstone. Arizona, dealer in Ii
quors:
SALOON ADVERTISEMENT.
Tombstone, Ariz., claims credit for
the frankest salooonkeeper in the
United States. He keeps the Temple
Bar saloon, and advertises his business
with most enterprising frankness. AL
low me to inform you that you are
FOOLS he says, yet his place Is usually
flied. He maintains that he is an
honest saloonkeeper. and that it will
not hurt his business to tell the truth
about 1t. He has had printed an adj
vertising card which would make an
excellent manuscript for q temperance
lecture. Copies are being circulated
through the western states and are at
tracing attention. The card reads as
follows:
Friends and Neighbors-I am grate-
full for past favors, and having sup
piled my store with fine lot of choice
wines and liquors, allow me to inform
you that / shall continue to make
drunkards, paupers and beggars for the
sober. industrious, respectable part of
the community to support. My liquors
will excite riot, robbery and bloodshed
They will diminish your comforts,
increase your expenses and shorten
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mend them as sure to multiply fatal
accidents and incurable diseases.
"rhey will deprive some OF life, others
of reason, many of character, and all
of peace. They will make fathers
fiends, wives widows, children orphans,
and all poor. | will train your sons IN
inhdellty, dissipation, ignorance, lewd-
ness and every other vice. l will cor
rupt the ministers of religion. obstruct
the gospel deflle the church, and cause
as much temporal and eternal death
as can. / win thus accommodate the
public II may be at the loss OF my
never-dying soul. But | have family
TO support-the business pays-the pup
lie encourages 1t.
81 have paid my license and the
traffic is lawful; and II don't sell II
somebody else will. / know the Bible
says Thou shalt not kill No drunk
ard shall enter the kingdom OF heaven
and l do not expect the drunkard max
err TO fare any better, but l want an
easy living and / have resolved to
gather the wages OF iniquity and fat
ten on the ruin OF my species
II shall, therefore, carry on my busl-
ness with every energy ana do my best
10 diminish the wealth of the nation
and endanger the safety of the state
As my business iourishes In proper
ton TO your sensuality and ignorance,
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purity and intellectual growth.
"Should You doubt my ability ] re-
fer YOU to the pawnship, the poorhouse,
the police court, the hospital, the peni-
Tertiary and the gallows, where You
win And many OF my best customers
have gone. a sight OF them VIII con
vince YOU that do what ! say. Allow
me to inform you that you are FOOLS,
and that am an honest saloonkeeper'
ARE NOT FELLowsHIPPED.
The speaker said he thanked God
iht no saloonkeeper can claim fellow
ship in the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter day Saints. The Word OF Wis
dom was given by the Lord for the
temporal salvation OF His people. The
statistics and comments from
Golfers Weekly We're read as showing
the tremendous consumption OF beer
and spirltuous liquor IN Great Britain |
and the United states.
BRITAINs DRINK BILL,
The items OF Great Britain's drink |
bin for 1905 are in II appears that In |
that year the forty-three million people |
of the United Kingdom drank 1881, l01 |
barrels OF beer, 39,3O2, 400 gallons OF |
spirits. 12,32S.69l gallons OF Wine and |
10. 600 900 gallons of other liquors
enough 20 make a like that would float |
a hundred battleships. Taking all |
kinds OF liquors together, every man,
woman, and child In the Kingdom, in |
infants IN arms. consumed
nearly 80 gallons. costing about SIS,
or say 500 per family, This represents
at least n quarter OF the average Brit
lsh family income.
For The whole Kingdom the liquor bill
of 1906 amounted 10 Sg0s, 6sls20. Brit
lsh public opinion is torn just now by
two insistent demands, one for old age
pensions, the other for more battleships