The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-06
Roberts at Theater Makes Scathing Speech

usurpers known as the federal bunch
had thwarted the will of the people
and had therefore defeated the popular
rule.
"And as shall show you presently" ("
continued Mr. Roberts, "that this great
convention voiced also the conviction Of
those attendant upon it and the great
body that they represented. They
lican prohibition convention, they
charged that there had been most in
famous and immoral liquor deal with
the saloon men and manufacturers of
liquor in this state. They made the
charge and proceeded to condemn it
and call upon the legislature not to keep
that covenant with death; that compact
with hell. Said DR.. George H. Brimhall
house of representatives having passed
the Cannon bill providing for prohi
bition, said he, The house has furnished
the ak. Let the senate but furnish the
handle and the good people of the state
of Utah will themselves hew out of
our state this crying evil, the saloon
Really, he grew quite eloquent upon the
subject, And ! have imagined what
In my mind-what manifestation of in
dignation the good doctor would have
relieved himself of had someone arisen
in the congregation and said, Doctor,
won t local option do quite as well7''
.Smoot's Branding of "Liar.'
Mr.. Roberts paid attention to the
fact that at the Ogden convention Of
the Republican party Senator Reed
Smoot had branded as liars the men
who had charged that deal had been
made between Republican leaders and
the liquor men. He declared that tho
men so branded by Smoot were among
the best citizens of the state, specifical-
ly naming State Senator Wilson of
Wasatch, Representatives Cannon and
Ashton of Salt Lake, Professor George
Brimhall of the Brigham Young univer-
sity, and others who had helped to pass
the set Of resolutions adopted by the
prohibition mass meeting of February
"a, 1909. He also read the telegram
sent to the congressional delegation by
Messrs. Charles W. Nibley, Hyrum M.
Smith and Nephi L. Morris, as well as
the letter written to himself by the
latter gentleman during the past week.
The Pleading Tone.
He made humorous reference to the
fact that the telegram sent to Wash.
ington by Bishop Nibley and the others
concluded with the words, "Please
answer" This brought him to the state
ment that the senators and representa-
tives in congress were not the masters
of the people, but were the servants of
sovereign citizens. But be asserted that
Smoot and his handful of federal ring.
sters usurped the powers of the people
and absolutely defeated tho people Is
rule. 81 am going to charge the con-
gressonal delegation with being A part
of the bunch" declared Mr Roberts;
"and that the senior senator is the lead-
ing and dominating spirit in that
bunch
Mr.. Roberts then went on to discuss
the question as to whether or NOT an
answer had been received to the Niblev
telegram; and he contended that none
had been received by those who had ad.
dressed tho congressional delegation,
But we are told," said he, "that a
letter was received by Brown or Jones
or somebody else-to be shown to the
senders of that telegram, and which was
to be considered as reply to their dis. !
patch.
Point Of the Dare.
NOW, WE HAVE A RIGHT TO
THAT ANSS ER HAT WE MAY