The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-01

bring in the secret saloon. making the
thing more attractive by adding the ele-
ment of secrecy and mystery and per
haps worse This method simply aims to
cover up the symptoms: we do not cure
the disease But we pride ourselves upon
our virtue, virtue we do not possess.
What is the method of dealing with
social vice which has the merit of being
based on science and the long experience
OF mankind? 1t is the method of con-
StTuctiNe action in our whole political life
ana even justice in our industrial life
That is the method not only of effective
action, but also of moral sincerity. And
there exists not only in every state in the
Mon. out in every civilized country in
the world a positive constructive move
ment of exactly this kind. 1t is the only
genuine temperance movement there is.
1t is not spasmodic movement like the
mass convention in Salt Lake theater.
1t doesn't call big mass meetings to give
politicians and other takers a chance to
fool the people. 1t isn't a feverish, fitful,
blind revolt against a corrupt Dolitica
party by lot of people who few months
before were loudly shouting for that
party and giving it their votes-and will
do the same thing over again at the first
opportunity No. this genuine temper
anCe movement is being advocated every
day in the year: it never stops and never
tires, and it breeds no hypocrisy 1t
doesn't blindly cast its ballots, as did
those who made up the mass meetoing
for officials which il cannot control and
for policies of which it is ignorant When
the people of this worid-wid temperance
movement vote for set of officers they
retain the power of recall and they know
that with that power and with the initia-
tive and referendum they possess at all
times the means Of effecting their will
II you want to see the difference between
this temperance movement and that rem
resented by the mass meeting Won have
only to reflect that If those Rep1tblican
advocates Of prohibition had had sense
enough TO make the initiative and refer
endUm and power of recall q mart of the
state constitution and available at ali
times for use they you'd not have been
in the pTedicament they now are They
would not have to petition their own
elected representatives in vain for what
they desire. They could do IL Themselves.
4 submit that the people who prove
themselves entitled to confidence as lead
ers in "A temperance movement are the
people whose intelligence is broad enough
and whose moral earnestness is deep
enough to make them adopt measures
which ensure the success of their effort
These people who are now advocating a
statewide prohibitOry law are equal to
the effort of mass meeting but they are
not equal to the effort of a campaign
which never stops till the ends of Justice
are gained Besides. they are not de-
handing any constructive policy for the
state They are barking back TO the in
effective prohibitions of the law. They
show no evidence of knowing or being in
spired by the spirit of the Gospel. This il
no time for the negations of the law. This
is the time for the positive, constructive
spirit of the Gospel.
1T is infinitely better to get rid of the
saloon and the evils of intemperanct bv
getting rid of the cause than it is TO spend
our time trying to cover up or even re-
move the mere effects of that cause. And
this is the conclusion to which the most
eminent advocate of prohibition this ma
ton has known came. After more than
generation of continuous service in the
battle against intempersnce and for pro-
nibition, Frances +. Willard one of fbr
n0blest spirits America has produced. dc
clared that by far the greatest cause of
intemperance is poverty, and in one of her
last annual addresses as president of the
National W. 9. 7. l. she frankly made
this declaration: oh that I were Young
again. Socialism should have my lifet N
is Gods way out of the wilderness ana
into the promised land. 1t is the very
meat and marrow of Christs Gospel 1t
Is Christianity applied. -
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