The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-03
IN
SOUTH TO STAY
SAYS Mr.. CHAFIN
Noted Advocate of Temperance
Declares Sentiment Is
Growing Stronger Daily.
PROBLEM OF NEGRO
FIGURES IN MATTER
soUTHERNERs MORE RELIGIOUS
THAN NoRTHERNERS-MooN
SINNERS MUST GO.

Prohibition is getting a powerful
hold on the Southern states and IT. has
come there TO stay" said Eugene W.
Chain. candidate for president on the
Prohibition ticket 90 The Herald last
evening.
In two years there won't be a saloon
in the South" asserted Mr.. Chain. ar
kansas and Florida viii line up for pro-
hibitiOu this year and Texas VIII fol-
low. Yes. ] look for all the Southern
states TO be dry within the next two
years The people down there want
prohibition. and III tell you just why
They desire Il because of tine negro.
They realize that he is there 60 stay.
In other words. the coLored man is a
fixture in the South. and the people
there are making use of him. YoI
can't set a white man To work ian the
fields down there, The climate iS too
hot for him; you can't expect him tp
get out and do the Is Dor that the ne
gro can stand. The people of the South
know that they have got TO use the
negro. and they are not going 20 have
him drunk all the time or part of the
time. Just so long as the negro IS en-
ployed IN the South. and that VIII be
always, the people want him sober and
that is one of the principal reasons why
they are knocking the saloons I'm the
head today.
southerners Are Religious.
Then there are other reasons why
the prohibition sentiment is gaining iu
favor in the Southern states. You don
find the political strife on this question
there that you do in the North. 1t is
true that there is a fight on when the
question OF state prohibition hobs up,
but it is not the same kind Of a scrap
/ that is entered into in the North. And,
another thing. 7 have come to the con-
clusion that the people of the South are
more religious than the Northeruers,
and right there is a factor that is fore
ing prohibition to the front ranks in
the states that some people had the
nerve TO say never would stand for %
I minute
! Occasionally I am asked how stale
prohibition i'm the South affects moon
I shining Well. just now it is going Ch
/ about the same as ever. I believe. II
/ has prODab bly, not grown @ great deal
/ in those states that have voted out the
/ saloons. 'AIoonshinius' win go on as
/ long as the government license can be
/ lodged That is a pretty tiCSiish bust
/ ness. however. and the government is
| making it hot for those who engage in
/ it,
AIr Chain gave Two addresses i'm salt
/ Lake yesterday. In the afternoon he
D spoke on the temperance NuHHlili 4a
/ the First Method ST church. and i'm the
! evening i'm the Assembly hail. He was
/ greeted By large audiences each time.
| Special programs Of music were given.
Will Talk TO Soldiers.
/ After his talk at the Assembly hsu
| last evening. just as he was starting
for his hotel two soldiers from Fort
I Douglas who had beard his remarks,
] stepped up TO the noted prOhibitipuiSt
/ and asked him if he couldn't just as
! soon talk to the boys at the fort this
/ afternoon" NJr. Chain seemed to be
{ very much pleased that the soldiers
/ had invited him TO speak go them, and
he made a date 10 be at the fort at
/ 4 O'Clock this afternoon TO make brief
/ talk At 80 this evening Mr.. Chain
! will sneak on the Abolition of Capital
Punishment and Prison Reform ct
/ the y. N. g. A. The movement upon
[ which no viii speak is being instituted
for the bettermeut of social conditions.
/ and Is one that is national i'm its scope.