Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-25

& see statewide prohibition enact 4
! od at once."-Rcv. II r. Hayes, :
Z Third Presbyterian church {
The Rev. Herbert i. Hays pastor OF
the Third Presbyterian church. came
ont Tor prohibition I'm yesterday morn
ing's sermon, taking his text from PROV
Xxx. /: Wine is @ mocker.' a digest
of the discourse ls as follows. the theme
being. "The Liquor Question m Utah. '
Wine is O. mocker" Prov NN, ].
Intoxicating liquor is a great de-
oeivcr 1t promises. but instead of Civ
Ing it takes away. Il is Improbable.
and worse than Improbable, TO indi-
vidual state and nation.
The greatest need IN our battle
against this evil is public sentiment.
Conscience is primarily individual, but
through the uteractiou of individual
louscicuDes there comes Co be sort of
conscience belonging to the public. This
public conscience often becomes torpid
and needs 90 Dc stirred mp
AeitatUs against liquor and saloons
have generally had hard time. Peo-
pie have usually shown a monumental
Indifference. But In recent years the
tide has turned. Sentiment against
liquor b. growing and results are
multiplying. People now realize that
the liquor traffic has no inherent right
10 exist that 10 does mo- good, but
much harm. and that 10 should be done
away with. As "a result over half OF
tho territory of the United States is
now under prohibition law and there
has been great advance 10 foreign
lands
But Utah is far behind the country
as a whole. There Is almost no other
state where SO little has been done
] ann told that in Utah there has been
until recently only one county with
out saloons. while in the average east
on state from one-half to nine-tenths
Of the counties are without saloons and
statewide prohibition IS spreading fast
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
What can be done about the liquor
traffic; some say, regulate IT, But
many cities and states have tried that
and regulation is not sufficient. We
are 90 destroy the work of the devil
Others say that local option. allowing
each county 60 vote FOR or against ss-
looms for IFS own territory. is the best
solution, Still others declare Tor state
wide prohibition, eventually leading 90
national prohibition believe that
prohibition is the thing we need. And
il there is already genuine conviction
ana n tbo Leaders I'M tey,nera1,cd ,,.,,,',,
over the state rel3izo tbaf a orobihitof,,
law Is me boeinnine ana nat ne end
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