The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-10
APOSTLE GRANT
GIVES HIS VIEWS
ON PROHIBITION
Says People of State Are
Against Saloon and LegiS-
latorS Are Pledged.
EMPHASIZES ATTITUDE
OF MORMON CHURCH
PRESENTS SOME FIGURES ON
FINANCIAL ASPECT OF THE
LIQUOR BUSINESS.


= SPEAKERS AT TABERNACLE. =
= The speakers at the tabernacle :
= this afternoon will be Elder -
= Heber J. Grant Of the quorum OF :
= apostles and Rev. Louis 5. Fuller. =
:. Their subject will be Prohibition" =
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In an interview with The Herald yes
terday, Apostle Heber J. Grant defined
his position in regard to his advocacy Of
absolute prohibition in Utah
Il have been speaking for temper
ance," said Apostle Grant, from the
I Cache valley on the north to St George
and Kanab on the south. In fact, I
have covered the entire state, practical
/ iy, since last June. The people want
I the saloons out: the sentiment Is so
strong that only the blind cannot see il.
/ In some of the counties the saloons
have already been eTadicated. In Sc
/ vier county there are no saloons, OF
very few, if any at all Washington,
/ Morgan and Wasatch counties are freed
/ from them.
Would 1t Be Betrayal
so far as the membership of the
/ present legislature is concerned, take
it that the representatives and senators
were chosen to do what their people
want them to do. Some Of them were
elected on prohibition platforms. They
are servants of the people and must do
/ their bidding. Supposing the z. G. NJ.
/. sent a mant east to buy a certain
/ lire of goods, and the man didn't do IT,
What would happen? He would be dis
charged, wouldn't he?
| so il is with the members Of the
legislature. They must do as their con-
stitueBts direct them TO do. CT take the
/ consequences. These men come here,
leaving their families in the commune
ties where they i've, and where their
neighbors and friends live. Can they
go back to them if they have not done
their full duty2 A part Of that duty is
to vote for prohibition. 1t would be a
betrayal Of trust, in my mind, If they
did not cast their votes as the very
great majority Of the people want
them to.
There is no question" continued MIR.
Grant that this movement is state
wide. I had a talk with President
/ Keller at Provo over the telephone yes
terday. and he assured me that it was
the understanding that the Utah county
delegation was pledged for prohibition.
IT is so in many more counties might
mention.
Is Business Proposition.
''The adoption of prohibition in this
state means more to the business man
than anything else-it is the greatest
question of the age.
1T would keep i'm the state at least
100000 or 100000 which is now sent
out Of Utah for the purchase Of whisky
which is drunk here. You can see what
that means. IF we keep that money in
the state. the possibilities Of its earn
ing capacity are practically unlimited.
1t is a proved fact that dollar in cir
culatiOn does the work of s25 to 500 in
the course of year It goes into and
through the channels Of trade and in
dustry ike the blood through the veins
Of the human body. We have demons
strated that money, a unit Of money,
does 600 per cent of work In as many
months or less.
Compared with Sugar.
The part the breweries in Utah play
in this matter Is insignificant in COM
parisOn TO the vast sums that are an
nUaily sent out Of the state We do not
make whisky in Titan, and we buy great
quantities Of it. paying therefor enor-
nous sums Of money.
The net earnings Of the Utah-Idsho
sugar enterprise are approximately 81
100000 q year. We make a great boast
Of this industry, but it is not to be COM
pared with what could be done with the
millions that we send out Of the state
each year for whisky. And all this
aside from the moral degradation that
follows in the wake Of the traffic. 1
tell you, sir. that it is the biggest fnan-
cial question in years.
we hear much about how Drohibf-
ton viii destroy markets and indus
tries. Now, let us look at a few fig
ures. The market furnished by the
liquor business. according to their own
figures. runs about like this. Farm
products consumed s110.O0O.00 mann
featured products used. $3.50. 0O0. 900: ia
Dor employed. s54.000.O00: fuel burned.
s5,000.000; freight and express. $50 COO :
COO; tax and license (revenue). s13g.-
100000.
As a matter Of fact. the liquor deal
ers use less than 5 per cent Of the farm
products produced in the country; 4 per
cent Of the manufactured products: 2
per cent of labor employed: freight.
only 1 per cent The United states
market would scarcely feel the destruc-
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