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Show 1 1 For The Apostle To Consider TO Apostle Heber J. Grnnt: You hold an office of-fice but one removed from the very highest H ,j - in your creed. An accident or an unexpected H death or two might advance you to the highest H place "within a month, when, according to the estab- H lished rules of your creed you would stand on fl " earth the vicegerent of the God of Heaven. Such fl a place as you occupy and such possibilities as M attach to it, ought certainly to make you cau- M tlous of speech, and above all things to avoid any- m thing like hypocracy or deception or guile. H A long speech of yours has been reduced to M print and Is being circulated as a prohibition doc- m ument throughout the state. B Is that honest? Have you the least Idea that f P because of it the sales of intoxicants will be In 1 the least reduced in Utah? What did the liquor sales of the Co-op amount to last year? If you do not know you can ascertain in a moment. P Whatever they may have been, have you any idea B that in case the county of Salt Lake goes your B way In the coming election, those sales will fall V ' off? Rather, down deep, do you not expect that S they will be materially increased? B Your own people, or such Gentiles men and r women as are temperance advocates from prin- H clple, and who, were they to believe your words, fl will vote what professes to be a prohibition B ticket, which no one knows better than you, was m never intended to be a prohibition ticket. Then M arc you not trying to win votes by a gross decep- M Did it require fifteen thousand words to make 1 a statute forbidding the manufacture and sale of M whiskey and beer in Utah, and to provide penal- M ties in case the law was disobeyed? One hun- m dredth part of fifteen thousand words would have H been sufficient, had the motive behind it been B honest. B There was something else intended. Was it m not to transfer the business merely to other B hands? Is drugstore whiskey an improvement m over that where men, in order to live, are ob- H liged to sell a quality that some people will H buy? B Tell us which is the worse For a man to go mUL into a saloon and buy a jolt of liquor and down B it, or go to Zion's Co-op drug store, buy half a B gallon, pack it home and get drunk in the bosom Bl of his own family? I3P If you were fighting the manufacture and sale B of liquor in Utah, no word of censure would come B from this journal, but you are not; no one in B the world knows that fact better than do you, m and hence if you were not an apostle, were you Hj jj just a common man, the whole state would call Bf I you a hypocrite. And would it not bo fair if it H I should? BL I When it comes to common honesty, how do H J your acts show up? Bl If, through your efforts, one-fourth of the reve- BHHbi nues of the city happens to be lost; if real estate falls say 25 per cent in value and a great many honest, industrious clerks, men and women, lose their present opportunity to earn an honest living, liv-ing, and at the same time if more intoxicants than ever are being sold, what will the people bo saying of you then? And if your conscience goxjs to bed with you, what kind of whispers will it be entertaining you with in the coming hot nights when it is hard work for even innocent people to sleep? Does It not look a little bad for you, Heber J? |