The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-29
DRY" Forces Hold Two Largely
Attended Mass Meetings in
Streets of City.
FOUR SPEAKERS HEARD
IN PROHIBITION CAUSE
The Rev. Charles Il. NeeI Calls
Saloons Hydra Headed
Monster of Crime"

Two well-attended street meetings were
held Yesterday afternoon by the Anti
| Liquor league forces at which earnest
| and forccfui addresses were delivered in
furtherance OF their fight TO make Salt
| Lake City a dry town. AT Second
South and Main streets q. $. Hinckiey
and Joseph j. Cannon spoke TO about 100
persons, while at Third South and Main
the addresses were delivered by Rev.
Charles K Necl Of the Central Christian
| church and Bishop Heber =. lverson OF
the Second ward.
At the Second South meeting the
speakers and their party occupied large
auto.
Preliminary to the addresses Il. II. Sid
oway sang ''Praying for You" with ex-N
cellent expression, and e. II. Eardley
! offered a short prayer.
| In beginning his argument Mr.. Iinck-
ley said that he was consoled by the fact
| that his remarks were professedly and
clared: Laying all joking aside. our
| cause Is a high and holy one, and alto
Gcther regardless OF creed or dogma. the
people Of Salt Lake have forced upon them
! a great issue and will on June u have
| the opportunity TO register their votes on
! this great question
Question of Method.
The speaker held that no sane man
| countenanced or defended intempcrance
there was no argument TO be offered
| how best to attain temperance. AS TO
this he admitted there were honest dif
ferences OF opinion. but said that no man
| could impusn the motives of the Chris
| tian people Of Salt Lake who were work.
ing To close the saloons as far as they
| We're able TO do so.
| close all the saloons of the city would
increase taxes. cause financial depression
and injure business, Mr. Hnckley said
| that there were two sides 10 that ques-
ton. but that granting all that those in
| favor of the saloon say is true, II was
not fair TO measure the progress OF hu
manty by cold and mundane dollars.
Where wealth increases and men decay
there is great danger ahead, as history
has proved
THE saloon" he asserted. SIS the
nurderers. fallen women, the place where
most OF our crime is ensendered. II Is
| the pathway TO the poorhouse. the mad
house. the penitentiary, the gutter and
| the grave"
Problem of Pauperism.
Taking up specifically the question of
paupefism. the speaker read statistics 10
show that in Michigan, a wet state.
persons. while in Maine (dry) there were
| only 163 In the same ratio. and then
asserted that fourty- four counties OF
said "th that no in he uned tates 30
per cent of the inmates OF insane asy-
lums owed their condition directly to
| Dirk, lhat IN England. ireland and the
United States So per cent OF the crime
could be attributed TO drink: that in
vestigaton had shown that the proper
ton OF degenerate idiotic. deformed and
abnormal infants were more than twice
as great among the children of intem-
perate parents as compared with the
| temperate.
Turning to the financial side of the
question, he said that the amount spent
In the United States for churches.
schools. flour, sugar, boots and shoes,
..tN Is; hoo f,ttt
equaled the amount spent each year for
liquor, and that no man who used this
liquor was In any manner benefited by
il. He took II for granted that the con-
firmed drunkard would continue to drink
in spite OF prohibition. but held that the
boys and girls would be far better when
the temptation OF the open saloon was
removed In closing he appealed 10 all
men and women to join hands and work
and vote in Il spirit OF helpfulness for
the weak by putting the saloons out of
business.
Cannon Presents Argument
Joseph J. Cannon began his presen-
tation OF the question by referring TO
the time when the United States In
terfered on behalf OF Cuba in the war
with Spain. saying that while this coun-
try had sent her sons TO die in order to
bring about peace. there was in the
United States today far greater evil
call far more urgently FOR the nation s
interference. since the number who died
here every year from drink equaled the
number slain in warfare from 500 years
before Christ down 10 the Russo-Japa-
nesc conflict.
Taking up the personal liberty" argu-
ment Mr.. Cannon said that theory OF
letting people do as they please had
been tried in practice and found want
ing; that the proposed law did not pre-
vent a man from drinking if he wanted
to. but was clearly legal in seeking to
stop the sale OF liquor. the same as the
sale OF opiates and other poisonous drugs
1 .l,il ril
women and children who suffered
through the liquor traffic mus also be
preserved
Prohibition does prohibit" he de-
clared. ''or the Brewers association and
the National Liquor Dealers associa-
ton would not be putting their money
into this fight and seeking TO retain the
saloons in business.
Discussing the question of business in
terests the speaker declared that large
amount of money spent for liquor and
beer went out OF the state. never 10
come back. and hence that 1t did no one
here any good. Drink. he said. does no
one any good il takes mans money
and gives him nothing in return. takes
his strength, power. health and man
| hood.
Mr.. Cannon closed with an appeal 10
his hearers in the name of humanity to
vote for the abolition OF the saloon.
Minister Is Emphatic,
At the Third South street meeting the
first speaker was the Rev. Mr.. Neel, who
declared that the street caucus had been
Justly brought about in a cause whose
issues rested entirely in the hands of the
bona fide residents OF the community
"On June ~ he said. "the citizens of
this great commonwealth and city TO
record their principles as TO what they
think is right and just for the upift of
their homes and churches and the Chris
tlan development of the community. On
that date ii Is To be decided whether
this city shall be dry or wet and the
| issues OF the controversy rest in the
hands of the people.
Il come to appeal TO your better judG
ment. good citizens: to ask you whether
you honestly believe that the sa
looms. OF which there are l36 In this city
alone. has ever or ever would be OF any
benefit to our citizenship. our business,
our homes or our children
'One hundred and thirty-sX 'grog-
shops; flowing cesspools OF inqulty;
hydra headed monsters OF crime-these
are the things we call saloons. for the
support OF which some OF us are going
to cast our votes on June 27, despite
what is known OF their immoral and de-
ocner1tinc Influences