Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-25
STIRRING SERMON
BY SUPT. FULLER
Liquor the Curse of Utah, De-
olares the Speaker in
ForCefuI Words.
ASSERTIONS ARE REPUDIATED
Claims of the Brewery Owners set at
Naught In the Argument of the Tn
firing Workers for Temperance.

Rev, l.. S. Fuller superintendent NJ
the Anu-saloon league work i'm Utah.
preached a powerful discourse last
evening. In the First Methodist church
before large audience ON the tenn
perance situation, when he fixed che
blame ON the politicians whom .hs
speaker declared had bartered their
influence in favor Of the liquor inter-
ests The speaker said i'm part:
Has the influence Of the LIQUOR traf-
fic in salt Lake city been such as 20
make the politicians any wiser or bot
terf ] wonder If the politicians who
had been directly in touch with the
liquor interests ia this city and state
nave risen IN the estimation OF their
Fellow mon. T. it not whispered Of cer-
tain politicians that they have for
confederation bartered their political
influence In favor Of the LIQUOR traffic.
j hear II on almost every corner IN this
city. So then, trends. you viii agree
with me that the influence OF the
liquor business on the politician i'm
civic life has been always bad Gov
rupt and demoralizing If that Doe
true there should be nothing left uu-
done that should be done by human
ingenuity, by the efforts of the pe9-
pie, 90 emilinatc from this state ana
this nation the crime and the curse.
A PREACHERS BUSINESS.
Politicians argue that preachers
keep out Of politics and we have look
ed them iu the eyes and said 10 Is our
business to preach the gospel and save
individuals from the curse OF sim As
long as you are in the running ana
cursing business you will find MS ,n
politics. II is the business of the
church, and the church would fail a.
a divine institution n on moral quas-
tons she did not speak The church
OF the living God must not only speak.
but she must be heard or she fails M
her mission. We realize that a nation
viii either die drunk or, please God
live sober. This is proved by the his
tory Of the past. We are beginning 60
realize that a man dead drunk is at
least a menace and expense 10 tine
community, and a man half drunk is
worth only half as much as he ought
60 be worth as a man, and a man
half drunk is even a menace and an
enormous expense TO the community.
A man sober Is always al his best an
the time, ana so with the city. and so
with the nation Salt Lake CITY with
her enormous number OF saloons and
drink and drunkenness. can be worth
only half as much half drunk as she
ought 10 DE worth and do you know,
Il makes me sick to see men bow their
heads profoundly and say we ought
not TO have any temperance legis.l-
ton. IL will hurt the city Everything
that tends to make this city sober
makes II better, mere prosperous ana
more successful in every sense of the
word.
GODS DECLARATION.
IF the liquor business is a good
thing 10 ought To be just as free as any
other business; but, on the other hand.
there has been almost from the begin
ming of the race a question sffectinC
the moral Well-bciug and progress OF
the Face and against the liquor BUSH
ness In an its forms. God declared that
government existed for the prohibition
~ that which is wrong and the encour-
agemeut of that which Is good: and
every human authority from that day
down 10 the present decision of the
supreme court OF the United States
has reiterated this as the true defini-
ton Of civil government The liquor
traffic must be eliminated from on
civilization. As % the influence lf
the liquor traffic ON the Individual.
we find IL depreciates his manhood
hls sklll ana ms brain all the way
from 2i2 to 100 per cent The police
docEets show that an the way from
50 TO 30 per cent OF the prosecutions
and convictions for crime are attribui-
able 20 the drink habit As 90 the
influence of the liquor traffic upon
the civil life OF our people. The his
tory of the saloon ion politics De- one 0f
bribery corruption and crime: IL Is
the history Of a great foster sore bind
ing upon otherwise good men.
THE CURSE IN UTAH
This great curse Is here IN Utah. II
has been urged for IFS maintenance |
that n the liquor business in Utah BE-
eliminated Il would hurt the state. that |
10 would ruin the city. Is IL possible !