The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-01


of us belong and whose cause is being
| advanced every day In the year. In
and out of season, Is a temperance
never tires, and II Is one which breeds
no hypocrisy anywhere. This move
ment doesn't blindly and foolishly cast
| It's ballots. az did those who made up
| the mass meeting the other night for
| officials which II cannot control and
| for policies of which It. is Ignorant.
When the men and women of this con.
tinuous temperance crusade to which
| l have the honor to belong. vote for
| a set Of officers. they retain always
| the absolute power OF recall and they
know that with that power and with
| the Initiative and referendum, which
arc essential parts OF its organiza-
| ton, II possesses at all times the
means of effecting Its Will. IL you
want to see the difference between
this temperance movement and that
represented by the mass meeting In
the theater, you have only to reflect
that IL those Republican advocates of
prohibition had had sense enough 10
rake the initiative and referendum
and the power to recall a part of the
state constitution and available at all
times for their use-that is. II they
had been enough In earnest In their
citizenship. enough intelligent in
their democracy, to entitle them to
20th century, they would not be in
the predicament they now are, They
would not have to petition their own
elected representative in vain for
what they desire. They could do 1t
themselves. AS a matter of fact,
these instruments OF fundamental DE
mocracy-the initiative, referendum
and recall-have already been sane
toned by the people Of this state.
and the only thing needed to make
them effective is the presence OF suf-
/ flcient interest in democracy ON the
part Of the dominant church or Ihe
J dominant party in this state. That
! these Indispensable agencies OF de-
mocracy are today dead letter, in
operative and useless. is the clearest
| possible evidence of the absence of in
telligence or will among these very
| people who are now proposing to pass
a statewide prohibItory law. These
! in a temperance movement or any
other sort OF movement. The people
who prove themselves entitled to con-
fldence as leaders In any such move
ment are the people whose intelli-
gence is broad enough and whose
moral earnestness Is deep enough to
make them adopt measures which ep-
sure success in their effort The
trouble with those people OF the mass
meeting Is. their sincerity and earn
estness do not go deep enough. They
have done nothing yet to justify us
in believing that they mean busi-
ness. They are equal to the effort
OF mass meetlng-they are not
equal to the effort of campaign
which never stops and never will stop
till the ends of justice are gained
These people who are avowedly work
ing for prohibitory legislation or for
the suppression of gambling or for
the removal of any other social evil
are not giving evidence yet either of
knowing what they want or OF being
willing to pay the price of getting the
one thing which would be effective.
They are not remanding any construc-
tive policy for the state at oil. They
are seeking a mere negation They
are not asking the state to say and
mean It: Thou shalt" They are
asking merely that II shall say; Thou
shalt not They are barking back to
the ineffective prohibition of the law
They show no evidence Of knowing
or being inspired by the spirit Of tho
of 1xyfn
not to be, under the pegatlons of the
law. We ought to be living under the
inspiration Of the afflrmations. the
positive, constructive spirit, OF the
gospel.
1t is an infinitely better thing in
every way-indeed the only right or
effective way-to get rid OF the saloon
and the evils Of intemperance by get
ting rid of their cause. than 1t Is TO
waste ones time in trying to cover
up or even to remove the mere Of
fects OF that cause, After nearly a
generation of continuous service IN
the battle against intemperance and
as All advocate Of prohibition, after
having served for years as the presi
dent Of the Woman's Christian Ten
perance Union, National and World s,
Frances E. Willard. one OF the noblest
spirits America has produced, de-
clared that while intemperance was
the cause Of some poverty. poverty
Is by far the greatest cause OF In
temperance, and In one OF her annual
addresses as president Of the w G.. r.
u. she frankly said that II she were
young again she would give the com
plete devotion of her life to the move
very words; THE reason why [ am
Socialist is just here. l would take,
, not by force. but by the slow process
of lawful acquisition, through better
legislation as the outcome of a wiser
ballot In the hands of men and wo-
men, the entire plant that we call
civilization and make 1t the common
property Of all the people. requiring
all to work With their hands enough
to give them the finest physical ae~
| velopment, but not to become burden
some In any case. and permitting all
to share alike the advantages of edu-
cation and refinement. | believe this
to be perfectly practicable; indeed,
that any other method Is merely a
relic of barbarism.
Il believe that competition ia
: doomed. The trusts, whose single OBJ
ject is to abolish competition, having
proved that we are better without It
than with 1t, the moment corporations
control the supply of any product
they combine What the Socialists de-
sire is that the corporation OF hu-
! manity should control all production