Show I I I I I II I President Smith on Temperance I I t. t THERE is a n disposition I I feel almost indignant nant to mention it I t to refer to it at all nIl but I learn or learn or at nt least I am lead to believe be be- t I lieve lie thal that there is a feeling an anti and n a disposition on the part of some of our brethren at least to misconstrue my iny position and my feeling I I and nna m my lIlY desire wi with h reference to the tile I temperance question i I thought I 1 I told it here last lost night as plain as IS a aman I Iman 4 man could o tell tJI it anti and yet ct the thc very cry I I remarks I mu made c here la last t evening I 1 before the priesthood meeting meting have ha haveA A been so warped and so misinterpreted misinterpreted and misconstrued that I am Rm amI I I v beset like a storm of or inquisition to I. I-I. know what I r mean tl pi i Now Now I am am am going Joing to tell you OU I I iA what I mean I am m go going ng- ng to do 10 like I j Brother Golden docs it it it-I I am going 1 to lo tell you y m s something I started 1 out ont I in this m ministry in 1854 8 4 a bo boy 35 15 5 I years car of age From that hour until f now no 1 I ha have hae e never ne relented nor reI relaxed re re- I not one Ofle moment in my adI advocacy ad ad- I vo acy of abstinence from froni strong JOSEPh H K F. SMITH drink and my advocacy d of temperance temper temper- ance mcc and prohibition wherever er prohibition prohibition pro pro- I can be bc effected I believe in itI itI it I believe that tile the time will come and that it is close b by when the people of this state will ivill have hn to join in the thc procession of other states and adopt a law of wide state prohibition I believe the time will iU come when they will be forced to do it to keep in line with the theother theother I other states in the union f I ii am delighted with Hh t the e cf effort ort that is rece recently being put forth I f in Great Britain the Britain the motherland the fath fatherland rland of many runny of the Latter-day Latter Saints one of the nurseries of the church of the tile membership membership membership mem mem- 1 at least of the tile Ch Church ch of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Saints- a people that have been let loose to riot to drunkenness to the public I house nn and the beer shop and to every cery species of license and liberty I reaching to drunkenness to profanity to degradation and poverty I II that has ilas been since first visit I something astounding to me ever my I I I to th the shores of Great Britain that now the authorities of that great It t I nation the tile intelligent men the len leaders ers of the thc people are arc setting to J JI I work with the their r will and with their determination to establish temperance tem tern t perance in in that land It will be the tile salvation oll of our mother countr country I t if they will only do it as Russia Russin has bas done it itI itI it J I uI propose to continue to preach temperance and to ad advocate the f cause of temperance as applied to the taking of strong drinks but butI I I believe in temperance in all nIl things I not only believe and will advocate and strive to the utmost of my ability to use every power powei within my reach in wisdom and not i in if I go to any extreme at t all in IIi any cne c or in any matter er I hope it will bo be extreme extreme ex ex- I in ilL the t cause causa of just justice ce and truth temperance and righteousness and honesty of life a and 1 purpose I 1 may get extreme e in In matter mattex of tk but bu L am not not oo 39 c extreme n a as some people are in qu questions s I It t of p policy f. f I II I I j |