The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-10
ITs MEANDERING MIND.

rs to drive the nall nome, ana clnch
il in tho mind of every man and woman
under the sound Of my voice, that any
man who will darkeu the door Of sa,
loon 10 drink intoxicants is criminal
in the sight of God and an enemy to
society; | do not care who it is. il
is an evil and ought not to exist IN
any community. These arc my senti-
mcuts.
To this The Tribune made objection,
saving hat such talk ms that is utterly
baseless in the customs of the time. IN
the law. and in the Scriptures. The
Dcseret News reioined in its issue OF
Thursday evening as follows:
A CRIMINAL INSTITUTION.
The saloon organ IN weak ladrass nstemRF5 FI
the Granite Stake house, saws there rs
nothing i'm either religious ethlcs or au-
thority that makes a man criminal III
The sight Of Cod for taking a drink III
saloon or anywhere else
That depends, The saloon certainly IS
an institution in which crimes arc orig
mated and often committed. Eobbcrie5
and murders are frequent happenings in
saloons. and they are moro frequently
planned in such places. The saloons arc
often the trystns place OF outlaws. and
10 the liqnor shops they 80 for encour,
acement to crime. II this is true-and
II cannot be successfully disDutcd-then
those who support the saloons may be
criminals in tho sight OF God.
The saloon is the ally Of gambling and
OF the white slave traffic There is
not den OF iniquity in which the hquor
business has not AN lutcrcs; for profit.
Il follows that those who patronIze the
saloons also cnCoura &c the various Kinds
of immortality connected with ii, and
therefore they are criminals in the sight
OF God.
According 10 the law Of Cod. drunken
ness IS crime. The Apostle Paul is
the authority for that statement. For
he says shat drunkenness. as we'll as
adultery. Torn,catlou. idoiauE; Wilch..
craft. etc. are the works OF the nesh.
and that they which do sucn things
shall not inherit the kingdom Of Cod
(GaI. " lg-2l1 But drunkenness rs
largely due 10 the saloon. In the sight
OF Cod therefore. such an institution is
and VIC do not see how those
who patronizc IT can escape that cen
According to the same divine law those
who by their conduct cause others 10
lake offcnsc. stumble and fail. are doing
wrong. when ye sin so against the
brethren. and wound. their weak con-
science. yc SIN against Christ" u. Cor.
win. l2.l The Apostles OF our Lord
warn against drunkenness. BE not
drunk with wine. wherein is excess"
fEph. y. L. One Of the qualifications
Of a Christian bishop is that he Is
sober and not ,siven 10 wine
q. Tim. iii. 80 The Apostle Peter
places excessive wine drinking in the
same class as lasCiviousness lusts and
reVeilincs. O. Peter ~. 81 The saloon
exists in violation Of tho divine law. II
is criminal and makes criminals out OF
its patrons.
Thc saloon is in The same class as
the opium den. Those who frequent il
sin against the laws 81 nature. by de
StrovinG theiI own bodies. They break
those sacred laws and are. 10 that cN-.
tent. criminals IN The sigh! Of God. Presi-
don't Joseph r. smith is right. and the
saloon organ IS wrong.
Which shows the silly meandcrings Of
an unframed mind. The claim that the
saloon in and Of itself. and necessarily,
is criminal institution is absurd in
view of the fact that The saloon is
expressly recognized in the law. and
when run on lawful lines and subject
to proper regulation, cannot intelligent,
ly he called = criminal institution. The
assertion that the saloon is an insti-
tuition in which crimes are originated
and often committed has nothing to do
with the case The man who goes into
-
tcipate in those crimes, and plenty of
saloons are conducted properly and
lawfully IN this city, absolutely free
from any criminal bent or practice IL
is true that robberies and murders may
happen in a saloon II is true also
that murders may happen in the street,
and rohbcries in private dwellings Sa.
looms may he the trystinc place of out.
laws Just as roomiug houses may be,
or any other place that the criminals
find convenient; but what hss hat cot
to 10 with 4 man going into saloon
and taking drink Does The fact
that outlaws may resort Ia some saloon
mark As criminal man who goes
INTO any saloon 10 axe drink The
ldea is absurd lust As ridiculous as the
pilifuI non soquitur that "ir this l.
true then those who support the ss
looms may be criminals in the sight
Of God. They may he criminals or
they may be angels Of light. or they
may he Just average citizens. Plenty
~ -''' ''''E'l- ~ ihip Fdl'oON Inb
take drink, plenty Of good Normons
do he same. and il js libel on them
+" call them criminals. They arc in
NO sense responsible for crimes IN sa
looms or elsewhere
The proposition that The saloon is
the ally of gambling and of the "'wbite
slave traffic is equally far-feiched.
while II Is absolutely false that .
man who may 90 into saloon to take
= drink encourages the various kinds
of crimes which the News imsgincs TO
he connected with saloons in general.
without discrimination. There. also. is
another Of lis wrctched fallacics.
But The News says, according TO
thc law Of God - drunkenness is n
cumc, and II quotes Apostle Paul as
authority for that statement; but the
Apostle nowhere calls it crime. nor
does il follow that man who goes
into a saloon TO take drink is there
fore guilty of drunkenness As a mat
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