The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-08
AN ABLE PLEA is MADE
FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY
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Milwaukee on True Temperance Be
fore he speaks it gives ne great pleas
ure to introduce TO you Mayor john 5,
BTansfOrd of Salt Lake"
! Mayor BransfOrd was received with a
prolonged round OF applause. He vel
| coined Mayor Rose to Salt Lake in be-
half of its citizens. He said that the
visit of the mayor of Milwaukee was
one of great instruction TO him. Mayor
BransfOrd and Mayor Rose went over
the city tn an automobile all day yes
terday, and Mayor Rose spoke in high
terms of the city and its public i'm
provements. Mayor Bransford intro
duced Mayor Rose, who was given a
great ovation.
Praises Salt Lake.
Had all of the good people of salt
Lake evacuated their city" began May
/ or Rose, before my. coming, I still
/ would have been able to form a correct
| estimate Of their character by the work
| of their hands. [ know of no city in the
| world that sUTpasses I'm beauty this
! charming city of yours, nestled in 4
/ peaceful valley with gorgeous noun
/ tains as its background 1 was al Fort
! Douglas this afternoon. and looking OUT
/ from that lakeland, / beheld the most
| beautiful panorama that it has ever
] been my good fortune to see.
/ After visiting your beautiful city
/ after seeing the aesthetic taste, tn Gull
| ture and refinement evidenced in your
! magnificent homes, after viewing your
/ public improvements. your splendid
/ schools and public buildings, I can well
! understand your praiseuOrthv civic
/ pride While I have been her, / have
! been discussing with your governor and
/ your mayor the civic problems that af-
/ ford an interesting study for those in
/ charge of the Administered tive depart
] ment Of public affairs. But this study
! should not be confined t. your public
/ officers. 1t is the duty of each citizen
/ to make of his public affairs sincere
| and earnest study,
/ 1.-THE people of the east and even cf
{ the middle west, have a small under
/ standing of the great domain west Of
/ the Missouri river. They have been
! lying dormant for years, and when they
] at last cross the MISSOURI they listen for
1 the warWhoop of the Indian that struck
! terror 20 the hearts of the hardy pio-
! neers.
1.-THE success of this great empire is
marked 5n the graves IF the :i5ueers
I that line the abandoned trails it is
spelled i'm the courage of the young men
| who left homes of ease and luxury to
/ blaze the trail across the wilderness: it
| is written in the devotion and sacrifice
Of thats splendid womanhOOd that fol-
| lowed the lonely trail TO the spot de-
stined to become garden in the midst
of desert Because of this courage,
this devotion and this sacrifice Utah
is destined TO become one of the richest
states in that brilliant constellation that
forms this federal Union.
Momentous Question.
My countrymen. 1 come here to dis
| cuss d question that appeals with great
vigOr to the manhood, the loyalty and
/ the fairness of every American citizen
In discussing this question, I shall
strive not to offend him who may differ
with me. / hold that it is the privilege
of every man to hold whatever opinion
he may conscientiously consider right
no matter what the question involved
I claim that privilege for myself, and I
readily grant it to others.
THE question is whether the passage
of laws prohibiting the manufacture
and sale Of Intoxicating liquors is for
the best interests OF all the people;
whether such laws are calculated to
benefit commerce and trade and the
necessary growth Of a community;
Whether Such laws VIII be Of moral, in
telectual and industrial benefit
Il esteem it the duty Of every Amer
lean citizen to acquaint himself with
all sides of this most important eco
nomical question. It is his duty to act
on this question, and to act intelligent
~ and fairly on the problem he must
carefully look into every phase of it,
In the consideration of this question l
know that appeals have been made to
the sentiment and to the prejudice
rather than to reason, and I am here
to brand that person who makes such
an appeal, / care not who he be, a
craven coward.
There is no reason why this neigh |
bOrhood should differ on this question /
There is no reason why there should !
be any serious or unfriendly dissen- |
sion ION the prohibition question. You |
are a happy, Weil-to-dO community, |
and you can well afford to look into |
this question with the same spirit of |
fairness that characterizes your treat |
ment Of all other civic and economical !
questions
The fnanciers of the east look /
upon prohibition as an expression of |
radicaiism. Can you afford to drive |
capital away from your state or to |
keep capital from coming in2 1t is /
not that capital is afraid of prohibition. |
but because they feel that if you are /
radical on prohibition you viii be rad /
zeal on other questions, and that an