The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-01
ASSERTS BREWERS
WOULD BUY HIM
A. S. Watkins, Prohibition
Speaker, Says He Could Sell
His Influence.
WHY He FIGHTS LIQUOR
sPE AKER GIVES REASONS FOR
ADVOCATING CAUSE.
WHY He FIGHTS LIQUOR

"Why 1 Am a Prohibitionist'' was
the subject of a lecture delivered at
the First Methodist Episcopal church
last night by A S Watkins of Will
more. KY, who was a candidate for
vice president in 1908 on the Prohibi-
ton ticket. Mr.. Watkins is returning
from a campaign in California under
the auspices of the prohibition COM
mittee.
Mr.. Watkins stated why he was a
prohibitionist and then gave several
reasons why prohibition is de-
nOunced. He recited several stories
Of MS early farm lie. He told of IN
stances where homes and lives had
been ruined by the use of liquor. and
then gave a definition of the differ
ences between a temperance man and
a prohibitiOnist. He said, in part:
THE difference between a prOhibi-
zionist and a temperance man IS: a
temperance man is one who is total
abstainer from the use of intoxicating
liquors. A prOhibitiOnist as a temper
ance man who thinks that which is in
furious TO him is also injurious to
others. l am a prohibitionist for sew
eral reasons. I am a prOhibitionist
because 1 am a temperance man. In
being a prohibitiOnist and a temper
ance man 1 hold that temperance les
sons cannot be taught in the school
room and have living examples on in
temperance upon all of our streets
where the young girls and boys can
have intemperance lessons placed di-
rectly under their finger ends. / am
a prOhibitiOnist because I am a Chris
tian. BY the word Christian we mean
something which covers every phase
of human life.
I'VE read that politics and religion
should not be mixed. My politics are
part of my IeligiOn. and my reli-
gion is a part of myself. I say mix
politics with religion when the politics
are of the right kind and when the
religion is for the uplifting and bet
terment of mankind. l am a prohi-
bitiOnist because l am a preacher.
Every community holds up the
minister above every one else in the
community. People who are doing
evil are astonished to find the minis
ter of the community on their side.
Could Sell Influence.
To-day 1 could sell my influence to
the United States Brewers association
for ten times what 1 am getting out
OF the prohibition movement
The preacher must view politics
from the moral standpoint Today
the moral standard is built upon the
almighty dollar. Do not think that
the government would go bankrupt
if prohibition were nationwide, as
this money would be secured from
some other source. / am a prohibition
list because L am a father.
The great dificulty of legislation
today is that the legislators forget
all about the boy and girl In the
United States Congress they will quib-
bic for hours over the duty on hair
pins or some other trlnket, but they
have no time to talk on the protection
of the boy and the girl. l wish some
one would be like Jesus and lead
little child into the United States
Congress and say, Here is the subject
for your legislation / am a prohibi-
zionist because l want a question in
this government as big as the govern
ment itself. To me there is no north
or south, no east or west, il is all one
great country.
1t takes a good man to make a
speech in favor of the saloon, but any
old plug can make a speech against
the saloon. L am a prOhibitionist be-
cause want a question which can be
settled. The temperance question is
a practical question and can be set
! tied once and for all if the people so
choose.
1--WE hear the statement that prohi-
bition does not prohibit. Prohibition
laws are easier 10 enforce that regu-
latiYe laws. 1t is harder to close a
saloon for eight hours and allow it to
stay open sixteen than in is to close il
for sixteen and allow ii to stay open
eight. 1t is easier to. close against a
half of the population than against a
third, and it is easier to close against
all than against half
"All laws in the United States have
failed. The half chance that has
been given prohibition has succeeded,
and with a whole chance it would
succeed as no other law has sue
ceeded."