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Show Hj CAMPAIGN FOR THE OPEN SA- 1 LOON OPENED IN SALT LAKE 1 BY EX-MAYOR ROSE. H Ex-Mayor Roso, of the worst beer- H ridden city In the, world, Milwaukee, H addressed an audience at Salt Lako H City last evening. Ho was introduced H by Joseph B. Cajne, who was tho only H man on the stage except the speaker. 1 Just think of JMrs. Shepherd coming H here to speak in our tabernacle, and H no one, being willing to sit with her H upon the stage! No one who dare H give his endorsement to her speech! H Yet that was the condition which con- M fronted. Mr. Rose at Salt Lake City 1 Thursday evening. Tho paper records H that Mr. Rose married a Salt Lake Hl sirl; that is possibly the reason he m found some one to Introduce him. M A Temperance (?) Lecture. M Mr. Roses speech was a temperance H (7) lecture, under the auspices of the H "M. and R. M, A.," the association m "which is vouched for by tho United 1 States Brewers' association and tho M National Association of Wholenalo H Liquor Dealers. It was appropriate. H We have heard that one Adolph Busch H , is also a temperance advocate, just j , such a one as Mr. Rose and' Mr. Colo, H who came to Utah to "educate" tho M t people to drink moro beer and whisky. M ' Mr. Rose is the first importation of H Mr. Cole and his association. M Sprinkling of Women Present M The report of the ox-mayor of Mil- M waukeo's speech says thore was a 1 "Bprinkling" of women present, the H houses being well filled, chiefly with B those In sympathy with the speaker. H Ko comment necessary. M Not a Church Issue. Hl He said in the course of hia remarks 1 that "I feel I am justified in making H this statement, that this is not a H church iBsue." M Well, now, maybe not, from Mr. H Rose's standpoint. However, as prac- H tically every church leader in the state Hj .of Utah has taken hold of this matter H and hns declared that it is a "church H Issue," we will have to differ from the M mayor of the beer city. It is true Hj that there are hypocrites and disbe- B Hovers in every church; thore are. leaders (?) in churches, who are lead- KJJ Jrs for the money there la In, It; those KSJ can hardly be expected to endorse other than what their congregation fndoraes. Wo can easily imagine a KM Church organisation of beer guzzlers KW who are organized through fear, and' ftSJ not for love, whose god is the al- 1 tnighty dollar, and whose savior Is the Kfjj man who wlI preach to thorn that tho KH whisky evil Is not a church question: we. can imagine such a church; we do H not Jaiow of one but should there ho KH .such, their leader would, evidently be KH preaching that "prohibition does not BV prohibit," and that it is not a church RJH question, anyway. Hj The Dividing Line. H One. thing Is sure, that while It may KM be posslblo that there are church J momhers, and good church members BVI (wo do not admit it), who think that BH the whiBky evil is not a church issuo. KVJ therQ is another way of dividing and ' Yfl Eu nK out wnore the line is drawn: KWI There Js not a prosiltule, not a gam- KVJ bier, not a thief, thug or pickpocket- KVj not a saloonkeeper or a momber or the United States Brewers' assocla- BVI tion,' not a train holdup or a bandit, ) hut knows that it is a question of RJJ iuora.ls, and, therefore they are HJteS up solidly against the closing of the saloons, tho spawning places of evil and tho rendezvous of evil doers. An Apology Offered. Ho suggest!; that he did not come to Salt Lako to tell tho citizens that Salt Lke should go wot, to him, personally, per-sonally, "t Is a matter of absolute in difference." Wo suppose that after his very entertaining speech against pro hibition, this statement is in tho way of an apology to tho people of Utah for being hero, and to disclaim any interest in-terest whatever in the breweries of Milwaukee or any otherB, but to announce an-nounce that his salary goes on Just the samo, whether Milwaukee continues to sell beer in Salt Lake and Ogden or whether it does not Tho apology is opportune, judging from the disposition disposi-tion of the members of the groat "Manufacturers and Business Mon's association" to keep off the stage, out of the limelight, as it wre, and let ex-Mayor ex-Mayor Rose of the brewery city fame take care of himself. Your apology Is accepted. A Threat Against the Mormons. Mr. Rose takes a fling at the Mormon Mor-mon church; after pronouncing quite an enconium upon Utah's groat religious re-ligious denomination "that I respect," he warns it, that It "dare" not "practice "prac-tice proscription," and, "If they do their chickens will come home to roosL" Now, Dear Mr Rose, do Jiot worry about those chlckous' The president of this religious denomination of which you speak, together with all the loaders, load-ers, have taken a stand on this question, ques-tion, and that stand is for the home, and against the saloon, and they will not lose many nights' sloep about your warning againat "proscription" (proscription (pro-scription against Milwaukee beer, wo suppose), nor over your throat that "chickens will como homo to roost," No Abuse or Vlllfloatlon. Our Milwaukee friend closes by saying: say-ing: "I came here to abuse and- vilify no man," forgetting that In almost the breath before he made uho of tho following; "Is the Antl Saloon league engaged In this campaign? If they are not hero in one form, they arc sure hpre n another I am here to criticise them a6 the moBt contompti-ble contompti-ble band of political pirates that over Bailod under a black flag." No vilification! vilifi-cation! Mild language that! Some Anti-Saloon league man must havo crossed the path of the honorable gentleman gen-tleman from the beer city. Their True Name. We will not retallato in kind; we will not vilify the buslnoss men who havo been duped into carrying the whisky trust's burden, under the name of the "Manufacturers and Business Men's association." The whisky trust, the brewery association and the" saloon keeper arc making a light under this non de plume which would bo laughed at by nearly every business man In town, if their campaign was being made under their true name, and for their true purpose. It would read liko this: "The Whisky Trust's Fight AgainBt the Closing of the Open Sa-loong." Sa-loong." We have been asked, why it is that the clearing house In Salt Lake City passed resolutions against prohibition, and why It Is that moat of the bankers In Ogden seem to be lined up with the whisky trust? Plain, very plain, if you will but look Into tho 'matter a Httlo. Business; that almlghtv dollar again. Every saloon does business at some one of our banks, and possibly a goodly number of the saloons "aro debtors to tho banks. These bankers who have aligned themselves with tho whisky trust are. in a sense, partnors in said trust. Not that they necessarily neces-sarily own stock In Gus Becker's plant, or In anj other brewery or distillery, but that they furnish tbo capital that carries on this business. Just as they furnish the capital that carrios manv of our meat markot6 and grocery stores. And. while we arc on this subject, wo. will say that the vorv fact that these bankers have taken "this narrow view of this great question is a potent cause why many of our beBt business men who aro being carried by these bankers, are not coming out publicly ae thov would like to do, for closing the saloons. |