The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-22
SOME MUST FEEL GUILT
AT ABANDON OF PRINCIPLE
Some IronicaI Observations Re-
garding Prominent Figures
That Took Part.
BY G. E. ARNEY.

It's various sessions in this city on
Wednesday and Thursday, and there
were few delegates from all parts
of the state in attendance.
What the initial meeting OF this anti
saloon congress lacked in point of NUM-
bers it made MP in point of enthusiasm.
Governor BradY's speech IN opening
the congress bore n striking resemblance
TO addresses heard all over Idaho from
the wears 1902 to 1908 by such platform
orators as Fred T, Dubois, Charles Her
for it was full of such sentences rs
''The purity of the home, The uphft
of childhood and '.The higher order
of civic righteousness. These men,
during the strenuous years mentioned,
were uttering these suggestions IN a
vain plea for statutory. laws to mar
monze with a constitutional provision
against the practice of polygamy IN
Idaho.
But they arc entirely suited to the
theme of the governor S address, albert
the ministers present who cheered so
Justify must have experienced slght
degree of guilt in their barter of fight
well nigh won against the evil polyGamy
for the fight for prohibition.
II the antI-saloon congress was IN
tended as a moral gathering. to bulId
higher and broader the personal feel
ings of the participants. and to. give
publicity to the temperance question in
This state, the effort was successful.
If, on the other hand it was intended
as q meeting TO strengthen the pollti-
cal standing OF Governor Brady and ex-
Governor Gooding, it was signal fail
ure.
The Attendants.
AZ the opening meeting Wednesday.
which had been widely advertised for
many weeks. as red letter occasion
over which the governor of Idaho would
preside and in which two ex-governors
of the state would participate, there
were but fifty-six persons before
Governor Brady and Ex-Governor Good
ing when they delivered their respective
addresses.
In the afternoon. when Attorney Gen
eral McDougall addressed the congress,
there were seventy-two present. OF
these attendants more than twenty were
Mormons from the southeastern part OF
the state, who had been ''set aside |
10 attend the function.
The two leading figures al the open !
ing Of the new state venture were Brady
and Goodinp. They were playing in a |
new role, but their parts were taken
well. indeed The felicitous greetings |
OF the one to the other was of that
order that partakes always of genuine
brotherly love. If there were any diff |
feTences between them as TO the right
of their respective official families to
enter Carey act lands while sitting in |
judgment on same in an official ca
pacity, If they occupied opposite views
as to the creation OF railroad com. |
mission. these questions had been laid
aside for the new subject, temper
ance, over which they beamed at each
other. saving all manner of nice things
of "successor and predecessor anc !
-
of character as modern, up,to-dat'
"Carrie Nations.
II there was the slightest taiut of
suspicion, the one toward the other, |
that there was the faintest tlnge Of
diplomacy or OF expediency being prae- !
ticed by either governor or ex-gover-
nor. neither the face, the form, the
modulation of voice, or the composition
of their respective rhetoric betrayed
the existence Of thought so base
But Gooding and Brady did not have
the hot-air market cornered, One
Knodcll of Portland was present. He
is the superintendent of the Oregon
AntiSaloon league. 'lf we only had
a governor over in Oregon like ono Of
these exclaimed the superintendent,
and again the faces of The two recent
recruits 10 the temperance cause were
as stern as the face of the familiar In
dian cigar sign. And then he proceed
ed with the further compliment: ''We
have no such men in Oregon This
increased the seriousness of tho conn
teDances Of the duo.
General Nc Dougall was extended the
opportunity Of going on record for tenn
peranec but he pointed with pride.
prior to launching into his topic, !'The
Maiesty OF the Law to the fact that
since his fourteenth birthday he had
been 2 member Of the ''blue ribbon
brigade.
From appearances, This stunt of the
general was badly received by the gov
ernors, IS ii bore evidences Of =" horse
on them - But McDougall took him.
self seriously and felt very much at
home on the stage with President Duck.
worth oi the Blackfoot and President
Uvde of The Pocatello stakes OF Zion
The sitting was slightly broken by A
vacant chair on The rostrum, which at
once suggested the absence of George
G., Parkinson, the client of the attor
ncy general when any issues are raised
involving the interests of the state of
Idaho, which an attorney general is
not supposed 10 defend against high
ecciesiast who is dealing heavily in all
sorts of questionable state politics
Tho Most Scholarly Address.
AS u matter Of fact, the most scholar
" address of the session, that which
showed deeper stuay or the claSsIcS.
of history and Of rhetoric and gram
mar as well, was delivered by Presi-
dent Hyde of the PocsteAp stake, his
subject being, 1.-THE Higher Law in
Politics. -
The entire event was Of singular
pride to the Mormons. OF course, they
were mado much of by the governors,
whom they had elected. and by the at.
tdrncy general, who violates his onth
of office, that he may represent one
of their false leaders, President Parkin-
son, in his thefts from the state. The
old school MormOns have warm place