Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-03
presidentiaI Nominee Last ' Year
presents ForcetuI Argu-
ment.
LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Is AN EVIL.
,,,iority Vote Cannot Make it n
. virtue Any More Than Could
II Hallow Slavery.

q ! &
M rrnlted states, spoke twice yes
to-day, in this city, in the afternoon t
Fan the pulpit OF the First Methodist Meth
ahnrcb and III he evening from from the ne
s,ana n Assembly hall. He is speaking
I'M. ,ftcrnoon before tbs soldiers at
z ,,lst douglas and this evening Is TO
r.A,,7at the Y. NJ. c. A. on prison re-
form I, ,,,a.tir1 Mr..
.aee,,T said the majority OF voters IN
,sth% Republican and Democra tlc. par
.Iss favored prohibition, but dld not
,,sliaye it could prevail IN this ou ,ll y.
so,.iI can live in q country unless II
~; ~ NO ,,,o nolitical parties to support it,
/. , Nm any eyil is supported by only one
VIZ. that evil will have to die. At
pant fhe United States is governed
= i,,,noiitical parties and not by TIL, peo-
4 ni,'GThere is no question OF good men
e t p.si the public; the question Is what
.i,a old PARTIES demand for their ad-
sarents. No man is better than the
marty l,s represents; no party " pettel
than tho meanest man In II. When5 Two g,
narties bid for support, few men VIII
iamirate the political situation. When
fsnriI, was acquired the United States
wrnte the blackest page in American
bistory. and neither party did any
lin, 10 prevent the horrors that fol-
,n,rnd for the reason that no man was.
hotter than the party he represented,
anS The men who dominated the PARTIES
would brook no interference. The wal
between the United States and Mexico
was brought about through the 1nstisa
s t5on Of the holders who desired
the territory involved The reason Dan
+ ., Webster in his famous Speech de-
al. Ia be-
cause his party demanded 1t. he in that
respect being no better than his party.
When ever a man got better than his
rarity. he Immediately started a new
marty, and this was the reason the
Abolition party was started, This also
was the reason for starting the Prohibi-
zion party, and this was the third time
that the prohibition wave had swept
the country. But there Is no hope fo1
tho movement until one of the old par
ties /; destroyed, and the majority
OF the voters who believe in the pro
hibition movement gave their solid sup
FORT to the movement by electing hon.
est men to leglslate on the question.
IN ASSEMBLY HALL.
Mr.. Chaffin was greeted by a large
and appreciative audience last evening
/. in Assembly hall. With him on the
stand We're b. r. Grant, Maj r. w.
Young, Joseph S. Wells. James Moyle 4
and Mr.. Schultz, the latter introducing
tile speaker Mr. Chaffin compared the
white plague, consumption, to the red
plague, tho whisky traffic, arguing that
ii would DO just as logical to- oppose
legislation for the Suppression Of con- on,
sumption as to oppose legislation tof5
the suppression OF the whisky traffic.
Here are men fighting efforts made IN
Congress to restrict and kill the busl-
ness of manufacturing and selling in-3
toxicating drinks, on the grounds that
so many thousand men would be
thrown out of employment thereby as
masters, distillery hands, bottlers.
teamsters, etc, so much vested prop
erty rights would be destroyed, and
millions of dollars circulating In the liz
tluor trade, be thrown out of circula-
ton. And moreover. congressman are
threatened with loss OF their seats at
the next election, IL they opposed the
liquor interests.
& According to the same logic, the same
legitimacy of argument, Congress might
be urged not to legistate In favor OF
the suppression of consumption, on the
grounds that it would throw out Of emf.
ployment so many thousand grave a. e.
gers, materially reduce the lumber
trade in reducing the amount of lum-4
her used in the manufacture of caskets
and collins, cut down the honest bust.
ness of thousands OF undertakers. d.
lninish the annual receipts of thousands
Of physicians, cut materially into the
revenues OF livery stables, interfere
with the legitimate business Of drug
gists in selling medicines, and the res
ceipts of cemetery associations. More
over 1t would be Just as logical to-
threaten congressman with defeat at
the next election, II they leg!slated
against consumption, for the reasons
above stated.
This sort of q comparison was rev
to the audience. The speaker held
that no party majority could make /.
wrong right. That was settled in the
debates between Stepten a. Douglas
and Abraham Lincoln. Mr.. Douglas
! held that whether q state should be
slavery or no should be settled by d
majority vote or that state. The qu.s-
5tion of moral status did not enter into
The matter. let the majority rule. Mr..
Lincoln held directly to the contrary.
II slavery Is wrong, itscannot be made
rlght by any majority vote: and Mr..
Lincoln Won the day. That is the prin-
eiple the Prohibition party based its
status on. The whisky traffic is a
+. wrong. 1t is a sin; and no party majors
" can change the moral aspect of 1t,
5lr. Chaffn was opposed to local op-
tlon because, while it gave IA communi-
" the right to bannish whisky for the
time. 1t did not prevent that same cons
nlunity from voting whisky back again,
sdid 1t 500 fit. Moreover, at best. local
option Is only throwing off vice from
one community into neigfiboring COM
munities increasing the evil in the
latter places. The only way to kill
the snake is to enact a national law
l.ohbiting the manufacture and sale
OF Intoxicating beverages. The efficacy
Z o. 81 this was illustrated In the action OF
+ congress shutting the Louisiana lot
tery out Of the mails. and forbidlins
eapress companies and common car
liefs from handling the lottery's busi-
ness Then the Louisiana lottery died.
I.l'act national statute prohibiting thu.
: iit,ailutacture, transportation and sale OF
WHISKY WHISKY; and then the Infamous traffic.
Will perish.
: AZ ms close of the address. Mr.. Chat
~, ~. was invited by soldiers from Fort
douglas to speak before the garrison
ttlls afternoon. at O'clock, which he
consented to do This evenings talk
a. the x. NJ. G. a. will be- In behalf OF
me ,.,, sPfisonS Reform league: III
f. me y, objects of this league are:
" The abolition of capital punish
mem, that the state may no longer
swell swell th's list of murders by becoming
lsstf a murderer. Ef
- Reform of the administration OF
CRIMINAL law, a task that the United
suites mas not undertaken since It be-.
came a. nation.
'a) Restraint to be for the sole pur-
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