Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-08
Elder Heber ]. Grant Throws
Down GantIet to Pro-
Saloon Legislators.
TO STAND FOR COMMON GOOD
serves Notice Ia Impassioned speech
To Students Of Latter-Day saints
University This Morning.

Al the devotional exercises Friday
morning Elder Heber ]. Grant of the
quorum OF apostles. addressed the stu
dents Of the l.. d. S. on the subject
Of temperance. Elder Grant waxed
eloquent in his denunciation OF the
horrible liquor traffic. and vowed be-
fore God and men that il the men
elected to the Legislature did not stand
for the common good Of the people in
this matter, he would dig the DO
litical graves Of those men so deep
that they would never again see the
light Of day. Ia the course Of his re-
marks Elder Grant read these graphic
and gruesome evidences OF the horri-
bic evil Of the liquor traffic The Sc
lections are from Leaves from the
Diary Of an Old Lawyer"
u have seen upon the counsel table
Of cur court room the skull Of an aged
father who was killed by a drunken
SON. Ny brother and myself sat BY his
side as his counsel and never shall
forget the look of that son when the
CHASTITY evidence OF his guilt was laid
on the stand before him. That silent
Yet eloquent Witness IL was bur an
arch OF bone. and was handled carelss-
~ BY the jury In their investigation,
yet II had once been covered BY a ia
theirs gray hairs. beneath IL had
throbbed a brain fun Of pride and az
lection for the son who was now on
his trial for murder, and as Il passed
from hand 10 hand the fearful express
sion on the face OF the accused plainly
told the terrible feeling OF remorse that
filled his soul IL was a wicked and
most unnatural crime, and begot feel
ings Of loathing and horror ia the
breasts OF all who witnessed the trial.
Yet % was not IN reality the son who
had committed the crime, but tho do
mon that turks IA every cup OF strong
drink. And that cup had been filled
ana placed 20 the lips OF that son by
the hand Of most respectable mem-
Der Of society-a man who had a A.
cense from that very court 90 sell that
which maddenod the brain and prompt
cd tho hand TO murder
KILLED BY his FRIEND.
'I saw upon the table the skull OF
young B., who was killed by his
most intimate friend ln "a drunken
hriwi az HBristown, and thu respecta-
bic proprietor at whose hotel tho nun
der was perpetratod, and who sold tho
maddening spirit that prompted tho
deed. was witness 20 the trial He said
hc had a license from that respectable
court to seli liquor. yes. from tho very
court then sitting in judgment on that
ret. which was but the natural ao-
quence Of the license IL had sold ana
granted.
81 have seen upon the table the skull
of "a little child, with the evidence up-
on 10 OF "a murderous blow. inflicted by
tho hand of "a drunken mother. Yet 10
was not the mother who had commit
ed the most unnatural crime All our
knowledge Of the prompunga OK the
human heart deny the charge. Who
that remembers his own mother and
her maternal love could believe it7 Noi
"a domoniacl spirit had violated the
sanctuary of the mothers heart and
onst out the tender loving tenant that
once resided there. ana that was tho
spirit of strong drink. sold to woman
hy "a man who held "a license 90 Fell
under the seal and sanction OF that
very court
MURDERED MS WIFE.