The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-30
DENQUNCES ALL
DRY TOWN FOES
B. F. Grant Gives His Opinion
of Citizens Who Favor a
wet" Salt Lake.
IS PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
AT 0PEN-AIR MEETING
George @. Norris Holds First
Duty Is Not TO Self, but
to Others.

That every citizen who voted for
wet Salt Lake would be "A partner of
the saloon keeper. responsible TO de-
gree for all the infamy and degradation
that the saloon causes. and that the
first duty OF every man was not to him
self but TO others. were the TWO points
on which 3. +. Grant and George O.
Morris rang the changes at the public
mass meeting Of the Anti-Liquor league
forces, held at Second South and Main
streets last night.
Joseph j. Cannon acted as chairman
crowd was small at the beginning, 1t
was rapidly augmented and long before
Mr.. Gran. ceased speaking there were
listeners TO his vigorous address.
Mans Duty TO Others.
The speakers arrived in an auto short
~ after 80 o'clock and George Q.
Morris was first introduced by Mr.. Can
non In beginning his address. Mr..
Morris called attention TO the importance
Of the question That was TO be presented
TO the people on June 27 the day OF the
special election. declaring that while in
alone, it was now the highest duty of
man TO live for the community and his
fellows. Most men of sense" he said,
are agreed that the majority of evils
that this comes primarily from the open
saloon, therefore II we close the open
saloon we shall be benefiting the COM
mupitY by so doing.
>. Each man must consider that he is
living not alone for himself, but for
others. Tho saloon is established for the
sole purpose of making money-nothing
else The saloon produces nothing that
is gooo-nothing that is OF value. but
much that is bad, The farmer. the mer-
chant. tie manufacturer the day la
DOTer all DrOdnce hing hp adj
10 the wealth OF the community or state.
The saloon gives us decrease In energy.
power and happiness: IL robs its patron
OF that which makes him man-you
cannot find one good thing that the sa-
loon produces. 1t makes men sots and
slaves blights womanhood and destroys
the rightul heritage OF childhood. Is is
fair TO vote the saloon a new lease OF
life when we remember the harm that
IT has done2'
Appeal to Voters.
In concluding Mr.. Morris said that the
citizens OF many states had realized that
the saloon turned fathers Into brutes,
debauchcd womanhood and starved chill
dren and urged that II was the duty of
every citizen to vote Salt Lake dry"
on June q.
In beginning his argument for the
anti-liquor forces. B. r.. Grant declared
that while he had often been accused of
was without basis OF fact. as he had
been In the saloon business himself and
knew Just what he was talking about.
He said that he was making an appeal
become partners Of the saloon man, who
by their votes had sold him the right
to ruin their associates, their children
and their relatives. who II they thought
they had made good bargain should
vote Salt Lake wet but whose duty
he believed IT to be TO force the saloon
and put stop to their iniQutous work.
Profiting by Saloons.
Even II you voted against the sa-
Loom" he exclaimed. you are only In the
minority and arc getting your rake-off
because G the the saloon ale n0 man is paving part
accorded to him through the majority,
II you are satisfied with your bargain,
retain the saloon; II not, vote to abolish
Admitting that some forms Of intem
perancc might continue In spite of pro-
hibition. Mr.. Grant held that IL would at
least abolish the most dangerous form
OF intemperance, that OF drinking for
the sake OF being sociable. He declared
that 80 per cent of the men who kept
saloons. as well as their bartenders. were
abstainers. because they themselves
feared to use the stuff they sold TO their
customers.
declared you cannot blame the saloon
keeper II your boy is ruined and your
daughter degraded.
Work of the Saloons.
You never knew the saloon that took
a bad man and made him a good man,
that took a hungry man and fed him.
that put roof over Shelterlcss woman
or child. that clothed ragged. home
less orphan; but you do know that ss-
looms take good men and make them
bad. make ll-clothed children ragged.
make wcll-fed families hungry, make
honest men thieves and turn noble wom-
en- into the deepest depths OF deSrada-
tion. Therefore ] appeal TO you that on
June q you VIII say to the saloon
OF business "
At the close OF Mr., Grants address
Joseph j. Cannon announced that on
Wednesday evening. May 81, and Thurs
day evening. June l, prohibition rallies
would be held in the Seventeenth and
Twenty sixth ward meeting houses. re-
spectively, and that good speakers would