Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-16


Gentlemen The daylight is break
ing over Utah There is moral auuls-
ening among the people. They are be-
ginning 20 realize the true relationship
between the saloon, crime, poverty, and
political corruption. and they are do
handing that your places OF business
Doe closed forever 10 you are not In
sensible 90 your own interests. you
vii. also arise and give TO the prohibi-
ton movement your enthusiastic sup
port paradoxioal as that proposition
may seem az first.
Ia the Grst place you are engaged
In a business that, % our Information
IS correct. Is running. promaturcly. the
health Of AN who follow Il for some
time, and that leads. Inevitably. to the
| destruction of happiness. Mr. Moody
when here a few years ago. So SER
mon in the Tabernacle offered $500 re-
| ward to anyone who could tell him
| OF a case OF n saloon Keeper who had
been IN the business for number Of
]
H. In some shape or another The re-
ward, he said, he had offered in many
places ia the country, but none had
earned It. Some had tried. but it was
always found on investigation that the
particular case relied on TO prove an
exception 20 the rule, proved the con-
trary. In some families OF saloon keep
ers IN health was a daily visitor In
others there were skeletons in the clos
ct that made happiness impossible
What a man sows he must reap. You
SOW ruin TO your follow-men. You reap
ruin in your own flesh and blood.
In the second place. you are engaged
In business that ruins others Did
you ever try TO keep an account OF your
responsibility in the debt Incurred by
your sale OF intoxicants2 You can easi-
ly keep your ledger posted as TO your
income and expenses. but did you ever
try 20 figure out your responsibility for
tho ruined homes. the tears and broken
hearts OF women who have seen their
husbands and sons torn from their
loving arms and forced as by an ire
sistiblo power into .he road to the gall
lows and holl, through the open doors
Of your saloon? Did you ever try to
keep an account OF your responsibility
In the sufferings OF innocent babies and
children whose cries have assembled to
heaven DO you fancy for one moment
that He. without whose viii not a spar
row penshes. shall forget 70 mete out
justice 10 those who have so sorely
offended His little onos?
Let as refer 10 a local, recent story
exceedingly sad. Il Is only one Of
many. Not so very long ago the papers
announced the death Of an aged lady in
one OF the tenement houses. AT one
timo she was well on She was refined.
wen educated and had many friends.
She was the mother of beautiful chill
dron. There was no reason why her
declining years should not have been
FUN of happiness. But some time In
her life the demon drink entered her
heart and took possession At first %
was only "a social glass. The appetite
gradually grew stronger. Then her Gao
roor was downward. Soon she lost
friends. self-respect am And finally
she was found dead. ln au intoxicated
condition this once 800 sweet cultured
lady was hurled INTO eternity, She had
SCI fire To her clothing
somebody was Responsible Tor lhis
tragedy pia you ever Try t' Inquire
OUT your share oi inc thousands ot slime
liar irasedies'
You may have failed 90 do 800. You
may oven never nave tued. You may
Disc Cain. rofuse DO consider yourself
your brothers keeper. hut there is
Judge before Nh'"a Dan justice Nih DE
DONE before ihe l'si chapter of history
shall oo "rilon BEFORE ihat bar the
poor suicide Is u}ms 10 explain why
ho laid hands upon himself and de-