The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13

get straight, (Applause and laughter }
And ] thirk you will agree with me be-
fore we get through that perhaps somo
Q-aushter) But anyhow. for myself,
on this subject OF prohibition / said this.
and l know 1t Is quite sincere. intended
Chairman, Is In my letter addressed TO
you, when ] told you l would not como
into the campaign,
Declares Democracy Was Blight.
Turning now to matters local, Mr.,
Chairman, / think our party was right in
concluding that public opinion In our
state really demanded state wide prohibi-
ton of tho manufacture and sale OF In
toxicating liquors, and therefore was
right when declaring In favor of having
that public opinion enacted into law. and
while l may not personally share the
very general confidence In the effective
ness OF such legislation. 1 recognize the
right of majoritIes 10 have their way and
try such experiments In government as
shall seem to them TO be for the best in
terests OF the community"
Now, find In that no sacrifice at all
OF any personal convictions l have en-
tertained upon this subject. Only this
consideration has moved me. BY reason
will of the people, in the petition of $4,000
adults demanding OF the Republican leg
islature that they should enact state wide
prohibition, and convinced by the mighty
tion convention assembled In this theater
on the Gath day OF February, 1909. came
TO the conclusion. as expressed by some
OF these Republican gentlemen, among
the people demanded the reform. and
trust that I shall always be 30 good a
Democrat and so far removed from an
anarchist than when 40 per cent OF the
shall be In favor Of them having 1t, and
not be found In the ranks Of those who
are determined they shall not have 1t.
applause and cheers,)
Moreover. there Is another thing to be
considered. and that IS this. the manu-
facturers OF intoxicating liquors and
those who sell them, quietly pursuing the
even tenor Of their way under the laws
of our state, and living up to the require
ments OF the law, that is one thing; but
those same manufacturers OF liquors and
those who sell them in the open saloon
combining together and raising large
corruption fund to defeat the Will of the
people. and TO corrupt the legislature of
the commonwealth-that Is altogether an
other thing. And when the saloon In
terests leave the even tenor Of business
way and undertake to corrupt the legisla-
ture Of the state. whatever my personal
might be about prohibition. /
OF business. (Applause) We have In
our country. AS in all countries though
thank God. not to the same extent as
In other lands-we have a class OF people
called anarchists. It is their belief that
government is only hindrance OF the at
tainment OF higher civilization; and that
really If ell governments were abolished
men would live more happily in a state of
nature and attain even to higher civiliza-
tion than under governments and laws;
and so these anarchists publish their
views. hire their halls. delivor their lee
lures and agitate In favor OF what they
consider their reforms. You hear them
sometirues upon the street corners arEu-
ing out the propositions they present.
Compact With Liquor Mon.
We are compelled sometimes To listen to
tho harangues that go on about their be-
lIofs and we tolerate II. Notwithstanding
they threaten the existence OF govern
ment Itself; but 30 dearly do we prize
the freedom of speech and tho liberty of
the press that we endure their sophfs-
tries and smile, 80 long as they confine
to merely teaching their
doctrines and promulgating their beliefs.
i>I,t ,DiaAn tim anarchist aelzes the sword