Show REV FRANCIS USES INTEMPERATE LANGUAGE I Rev Tev Francis Frncis nur tg Short pastor of the First Firt Methodist M church delivered the following prepared ll speech Mr r Chairman and ad Fellow Citizens This is Surely a most auspicious hour an hour that marks the beginning of a bet better better better ter day da for Utah Utah We Ve shall go gl forth Corth un under under under der brighter skies and with wit happier hearts to meet the responsibilities res that lie le be before be before fore us Ours is a great gret opportunity The tasks call can for tor our best beat bet endeavor and cool coolest coolest est et judgment The American Amerian people are area a great geat people people They the people seldom make mistakes and an when they the do they the theare are big enough and good enough to correct them as nearly as possible They are arc sometimes slow to undertake new ne projects project i roi but when they do they usually carry car them to a successful culmination They The Theare are arc slow l w in arousing to their duty toward towan great moral morl problems but when once aroused they thEY move forward foran with wih the state stateliness liness of a well wen trained army rm and with th the terribleness of a mighty cyclone cyclone Of f this people p ople my countrymen count men you and ano an I area aa part par and we r joice olee in our OUI heritage hertage and we swear anew our fidelity fi 11 delity dely to those principles which our fa fathers fathers timers have hae handed hande down don to us and pledge ourselves to continue to build ns os wisely 1 as s they the began bean We VI are arc thus striving to cary out our our part par and to measure up to toUl our tur cr Ul obligation in the fear of God As American citizens we therefore meet here tonight to give expression to the high ideal in our own soul sul and md the fond hope that burns bums within us and In so e doing we would meet met with malice toward no man and Ind speak kindly of all al men until unU they the have proven themselves recreant to the duties dutes as ns American citizens or traitors to the party to which we e be belong b long I IThe The Paramount Interest The TIie one paramount interest that brings us together my fellow countrymen count men is not dead even In Utah I It Jt Is I not even walk walking walkIng ing lag at night in Its ls sleep p Our interest does dOs not require the darkness of the night In which to walk walk The bright daylight is our time to move around But Dut it can be truly said of many of our opponents that they the have not nol had bad many man nights of sleep during the past few Cew weeks No the pro prohibition prohibition of the liquor traffic In Utah Uth is not dead And furthermore it will wl not die nor down until unU the last saloon and drug drugstore drugstore store stor are ridden of their blight and shame and damnation We VI therefore meet to tonight tonIght tonight night with this as our motto moto When the thelast thelast thelast last saloon is closed cosed In Utah we e will wi stop the fight We e may lose some battles battel Indeed the prohibition army had a tern tem temporary defeat some days das ago Jo but dont lose los courage my m brothers and sisters dont lose loso courage The T mills mil of the gods sods grind slowly but they ever grind We seek not our OUI own good alone and they the that thus go g forth tolling are aro sure sur to win winfor winfor for fol their cause is right The liquor traffic traffic fic fc in Utah Is Js upon Us its Is its dying bed bcd and anti its It friends are arE already keeping watch atch But woe unto the physicians that keep it alive alve Hears From Washington I 1 am happy happ tonight to see e newsboys in this audience crying c ing the organ of or pro prohibition prohibition I I thank the Mormon church with all al its wickedness for having at least one mark of good to Its Is credit cedi I I am also glad that we have hae heard from Washington I am glad that that the country is Lo saved and in II the te language of the Methodist Episcopal church there is a possibility of there being at least three at the mourners bench I think in the time Mormon font church you call it the baptismal Who Can Afford Aford to Walt Wait Walt Ladies and gentlemen of the prohibition persuasion you ou and I can afford aford to wait alt but the other man cannot afford aCord to keep us waiting too long Another election day will wl come to Utah and when that day da conies comes the people will wi say not only who they want but what they want The day of ot political bosses is over oel The pee peo people pe pIe are sovereign fn this nation naton and they are going to b In Utah and the man that wants to save his tallow had better get ge away awa from the fire Therefore Therefore per permit permit mit me to say to you ou again agin that we can afford to go slow and we wc must go slow the interests of the state demand 10 it It and the success of the party requires It There Therefore Therefore Therefore fore I plead pled for Utah Uth Our first great gat duty dut is to save Utah It I is a very ver easy matter to make false Calse and damaging accusations but a very vt tutu difficult cult matter to substantiate them Ulem We e may ma think that a D certain thing is true and keep thinking it and saying it until It really does doe become true to us but may ne oe as a false f as falsehood The cry c has gone gone out and up and away that the tho Republican Republican lican party part sold out to the saloon salon interests before time the last election election If I that Is true the time men that did it deserve deerve tobe to be not only denounced but deserve to be politically politically laly squelched for ail time Ume and driven from this community Turning the Other Cheek Nit 4 The villain that will wi f 4 sell sen the honor of his party to the he sa saloon saloon if t loon interests ought ough to be anchored 4 f 4 out In water that will wi just touch his f 4 lips but cannot enter and within f ff f sight of food fond fod that he cannot touch 4 and there left tet to the tho torture of his 4 9 4 own ow hunger and and thirst and the gnaw gnaw gnawIng gnawing f 4 Ing of his own guilty conscience un tin f 4 til t he shall sufficiently repent If 4 4 please God that he may ma then upon 4 4 4 being bing liberated l rte he should hie himself himsel 4 to some lome unfrequented spot and there 4 4 4 4 die only ont to be remembered by b the 4 al deal dc to Which been b n na 4 a party parly Did the te whisky whisk interests Interest buy a print printing lug ing In press for a paper In this city or did they pay for any an part of it To say such Is quite an easy thing timing but Is It true Do you ou think that men can become so 50 vile le leand and so perjure themselves Inmost as assuredly as assuredly do not believe the charge And further If any an man In this house knows that such a deal was made he owes it 11 to those among us U that spurn spur such nc ac tons to come forward with wih his hi proof More Moro than that Any An man that knows that such a deal was wa made is crimi nis In the deal unless he does come forth C rth and prove the charge char In saying these things thing to you tonight roy my m countrymen n I have hae but one purpose puros Give Gie every eer man a square deal del Best for Utah So I plead pl ad with wiLls Ith you OU tonight tonight do not become overzealous do not smash the party because some one may have done tho the party an injustice Iet Let us the thc rather find the time criminal and smash him but save the party This state has been ben torn tom long enough by b unrelenting strife There Tere should be no rupture In any an of the par ties tes Let Lot us have peace Bosses must keep their bands hands off orf and away from those I measures for which the time people arc ask I I Ing lag Will WI therefore be best bet I Ifor for our commonwealth If I so s give gie us I I that anti and give gin us less eS than tha that J Mr Ir Legislature Will VAil a 0 nty option law I be b best bet for t tah Could we all an unite j I upon that Then give gie us that that It I Is not my amy ideal but I can affo afford d to wait walt at least lest two tO years ers If our ouT legislature will wI give gi us usa U Usa a law Jaw now that Is Ik framed by time tile ing interests of this community Finally I share with you my ray m friends an undying undying hatred for the saloon soon It I Is 15 the time one polluting spawning iniquity which we have hae to fight But fight we must and win we shall We Ve hate the saloon but not its keeper We Ve would help him if I we could We Ve hate the time saloon loon but not its patron We Ve would deliver deler him Wm from the temp temptation temptation temptation tation which surrounds him if I wr we e could by emptying the last lat cask Ik breaking the thelast thelast thelast last bottle botte closing coing and barring the thc last door dor Mr Saloonkeeper if we could have hare I our way a there would be no mio TO more lives wrecked homes home fatherless and hun humi hungry gry gr children lonely and widows no more mor There Ther would woul be no more i drunkards funerals and ruined lives You would stop your unspeakable and un unnamable unnamable namable business and like other men ou would engage in legitimate and lofty lof methods of trade Hates the Saloon Business Yes Ye Mr Saloonkeeper I hate your our I business It I will wi take any mothers boy and drive the sparkle out of his eyes and the blush from his cheek it I will wi take from him his h love loe for fol his parents and give him the companionship of the tha gambler ge the harlot and the criminal It I will wl take all al of his bis money and throw him out a beggar begar upon the hospitality of a cold community it will wl rob him of his maR man hood and cause cU him to seek sek the level of oC beasts it will sap sp out his very ver life Jfe break k kand and grind grind and break the heart of his poor old oki mother and father and then timen throw the thc dead body Into a grave grae in the potters field to await awi the t resurrection morning And I tell tel you ou my friends to tonight tonight tonight night that I would rather rattier be that poor drunkard then before beCore God than I would pr to be b the man mn that had sold him the drink drink or the man who had not done all al that he could to make it Impossible for drunkards to be made Their Last Race In conclusion Mr Short said sIl that what was us needed in the time legislature was men menI If I he be were here hor two years eArs hence he lie said sid he lie would EQ gg Into every c e ward meeting house hous and hold meetings meeting at every eros cross crossroads ero roads where he hp was wa permitted 10 fo I do so w wand and plead for br men And lie he declared de lar if the representatives Lives tives at Washington do not keep kep their hands off orf of this business it wi will he be the sorriest thing they te ever did Two of are ae on the last lap of the last rac e they the thew will w ever run rn if I they the Insist on nii n Interfering with state wih sta to the demands of the time people of ot this hl |