The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-14
Is
PURSUING
ROSE.
MINISTER DESCRIBES THE
TABERNACLE MEETING
Refers to THE Paid Gallery at the
Rose Lecture" and 0enounces
the Saloon Men.

In his regular Sunday night "pul
pit editorial Rev. ElderlSin. taking as
his subject The Paid Gallery at the
Rose Lecture" said:
Mayor Rose did the best he could
for his employees. He had an exceed
iDgly difficult task
The interests here who did the ad-
vertising made his task even more
difficult for they set forth in glowing
head lines that the gathering was 10
be temperance meeting 1t wasn't.
IL was pronquor and pro-saloon. Hy-
pocracy is the peculiar monopoly of
the prohibitionists, according to ST.
Louis and Milwaukee, but some of IL
seems to have filtered through It
would have been fairer and more hon
est TO have called IL a saloon meeting.
backed by the saloon, and having as
its object the preparation of the sa-
loon, And that is what il really was
The prayer was out OF place 1t
sought TO put the blame for the meet
Ing on Gods broad shoulders. Two
men who sat on the platform should
not have been there. The text should
have been taken from BonfOrt's ia
stead of from the Doctrine and Gov
chants Thee should have been no
paid gallery and no cheer leader back
of the speakers right. Otherwise the
meeting Was well managed
] sat Ia the paid gallery, where the
applause was constant and metallic
] mean TO tell YOU the things the paid
gallery liked.
They lik"i ibe idea that tbe Glble
and the Doctrine and Covenants ap-
proved of liquor and drunkenness
The picture OF Noah-the fayorIte of
MISUNDERSTANDING In drunken filth
within his tent seemed TO inspire
both the speaker and the gallery with
mirth ] can't find the halo In the
picture
che gallery rejoiced that there were
no anti-saioon passages in the Bible.
That should put an end 10 the modern
movement. the speaker thought. But
II we should seek TO settle our mod
,rn problems by refeSence to the
Bible. VIC should still have human
slavery and polygamy and several
other things which we are tolerably
well rid of Tariff revision upward
wasn't based on Biblical instruction,
yet Mr. Aldrich and Nr. Smoot went
right ahead
OF course the gallery was delighted
10 learn once again that prohibition
didn't prohibit. That always created
a stampede Ought 1t not rather to
create a regret that so many men are
under bondage TO the drug habit.
don't think Mayor Rose should have
boastcd of the powerlessness Of men
In the presence OF liquor. That is the
whole of the liquor problem. The
speak-easies. boot-leggers, club-lock-
ers, blind-tigers do not tell of the
failure of prohibition. but rather of
the depths to which the trade and its
victims will descend
When Mayor Rose painted the pic
ture of the Boise brewer CRYING as he
told the mayor he was ruined through
prohibition agitation. the gallery could
rot restrain its tears. Mayor Rose
unintentionally and inadvertently neg
lected to picture the thousand homes
into which this same ruined Boise
brewer had introduced discord and
hate and filth and squalor and hot
breath and ruin. That is the scnti-
mental phase OF the problem. anyway,
and ought not to be lugged into a we'll
ordered saloon meeting.
The gallery was considerably moved
because the Idaho farmer could get
only II cents for his barley instead
of $120, | can't account for the grief
except that II looked as though pro-
was less demand for barley because
there was less demand for beer. But
why the diminished demand for Mil
waukee's crowning glory? The speak
er elided the moral
1he gallery was not sure whether
it ought to rejoice or wall when Mayor
Rose stated that prohibItionistS and
anti-saloonists increased the con
sumption Of liquor and therefore the
number of drunks. The platform
didn't smile. To me it was siGnlfl-
cant Mayor Rose was TO the lar
board OF truth The agitation or
something was cutting down con
sumption, That's why the platform
hired the band aud had the Doctrine
and Covenants placed In the mayors
hands. II would be stark idiocy 10
fight me wave if tho ledger were IN
no way affected.
At 9:20 Of the evening clock there
was heard a rumhing in the distance.
Shortly the slJirmish lines were with
drawn and the heavy artillery rushed
upon the field The play was mag
nitlCent The standard bearer placed
the colors at Governors Spry'S feet.
He was the real hero. For did he not
2ND AID ELDERKIN .... .... 1900.
save the trade asked the speaker.
He killed county local option because
the county was not a unit OF govern
mont OF course il isn't Everybody
knows that There are smaller di-
visions. Surely there are But the
mayors conclusion does not follow.
For the United States supreme court,
and just about every othor court. has
dccreed that the larger whole may
legislate for Its component parts. We
have federal, state, county, city laws.
Tho state may not pass laws which
set the federal laws at nought. Ogden
may allow its officers 10 protect gam
blcrs, but 1t dare not pass laws per
hitting gambling. Mr.. Roses arGu-
ment carried 10 It's logical conclusion
means that the state has no right TO
lesislate for it's component parts. nor
the federal congress right TO dictate
TO the various states.
Democracy is based not upon the
sovereignty of tho township. but upon
the Sovereignty OF the individual Dl-
visions OF nation into state and state
into county and county into township
etc, are only matter of cXpediency.