The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-29
LOCAL OPTION
is THE REMEDY
Rev. Dr.. Paden Takes Pro-
nounced Position on the
Liquor Traffic Problem.
REFERS TO SOCIAL EVIL
SAYS MENACE MUST BE PRO.
HlBITED.

The Rev W. NJ Paden. pastor of the
FIRST Presbyterian church took as the
SubJect for his Sunday discourse the Red
Fefll, He treated the liquor question at
lehslh' ana local option was his conclu-
sion. His text was from James l:15.
The lust when il hath conceived. beareth
SIN and the sin when it is full grown
orlngeth forth DEATH DR.. Paden said, in
part;
The appetite for intoxicants may be
natural or it may be acquired. 1t doesn' [
much matter which Whenever the ap-
petlJe becomes craving il beats the very
oeVl as tempter When the craving
gains full control, the man does its bid
olng like slave. As the prOverb has H.:
First the man takes a drink, then the
drink takes drink. then the drink takes
the man
'Supposng that the appetite is instinc-
tive, even as instructive as sin, it does not
follow that one is justified in waking it
up or feeding il. There may be stuff in
a man which Will catch fire which, owing
TO his abstinence, never feels the attrac-
ton OF the flame. A medical specialist
stoutly maintains that no man ever
Graves for alcohol who has not had
previous experience of it. At any rate,
the best protection against alcoholism and
drunkenness Is abstinence. Indifference
TO the allure .nents of liquor is worth
more to the ordinary man by way of pro-
lection against the drink habit than all his
supposed resources in the matter of self
control.
There are doubtless those who can give
the alturement free course in their lives
and yet be able to keep il under control.
The ordinary run of us have no right to
bank on having such good fortune. II IS
Iar better for US TO keep the red peril out
of our fortress. Moreover, il is becoming
more and more evident that we must do
all we can to keep the red peril out of
mems reach and out of their sight. Means
TO do the deeds make i'll deeds done.
Chances TO drink have much TO do with
the making of drunkards. This is espe-
cially true where the cupidity of the seller
IS as naturally inflamed as the appetite
or craving of the buyer. The temptation
TO sell whisky at the risk of making
drunkards is quite as dangerous as the
temptation to drink whisky at the risk
of becoming a drunkard.
Fixing the Bounds.
Society has therefore tried in various
ways to keep the red peril within bounds
liquor to minors or TO habitual dTunkaTds
We have prohibited its sale to any one on
Sundays and legal holidays. There have
been notable exceptions. but as a rule the
Iced or watched, disTegarded these laws.
This has been so common that the thought
has gained credence that one who is a
saloon keeper cannot be trusted to live
up to either the letter or the spirit OF even
the mildest type of temperance legisla-
ton.
Various forms of licnse have been
tried without greatly diminishing the evils
of intempeTance or the facilities accorded
to the red tempter The very best that
can be said is that high license is better
than Tow license, and that low license is
better than free rum. If the sale of
Iiquor. like the sale of ones own or an
others person, We're per Sc wrong, then
any license under any circumstance would
be wrong We must prohibit Mrs. War
ren's or Bell LOndOn's business or pro-
fessiOa,' not only because il is menace
TO society, but because il is in itself
everywhere and always immoral and de-
basing.
we may prohibit the saloon business on
the grounds of public eXpediency, or on
the grounds that il unduly imperlls public
4 community has the moral and
should have the legal right to outlaw the
saloon. 1t should have the legal right
and opportunity to put its veto on all APP
pncations for the privilege of selling IL
quor as a beverage. In other words. we
may have and should have in this state,
and as soon as possible, a well-devised To-
cal option law
.'The phenomenal progress now being
made toward checking the raVages of the
LIQUOR trade and the liquor lust has been
made along local option lines