Show APOSTlE GRANT Qt i GIVES HIS VIEWS J i ON PROHIBITION It r rI I I I r Says People of State Are lk Against Saloon and Legis Legislators Legislators tt Are Pledged y EMPHASIZES ATTITUDE tl i OF MORMON CHURCH tt PRESENTS SOME FIGURES ON f FINANCIAL ASPECT OF THE j LIQUOR BUSINESS l laJ aJ x M f 4 t oo j I SPEAKERS AT V 1 f The Th speakers at the tabernacle 1 L C this afternoon will be Elder J Hebr Heber J 1 Grant of the quorum of I apostles apo and Rev nt Louis Louts S Fuller Their subject will be beIn Prohibition H I IW W 1 In an Interview with The Herald yes yee yesterday yesterday Apostle Heber J S Grant defined 1 J his position in regard to his hi advocacy of absolute ab prohibition in Utah I have hae been speaking for temper temperance tem temperance ance said aid Apostle Apo tIe Grant from the Cache valley on the north to St SL George and Kanab on the south In I fact tact I 1 L have covered the entire stats state practical practically I Ily F Fly The want 1 ly since last tabt June people the saloons out the sentiment is III so ao strong that only the blind bUild cannot see it itIn ItIn C 1 In some of the counties the saloons I have already alre dy been be 1 eradicated In Be Se Sevier 41 vier fer county there thee are no saloons loons or i ivery very few if any at alt alL Washington Morgan and Wasatch autch counties ere are freed from them Would Woul It Be J So far as si the membership of oC the present is III concerned I take it that the representatives and senators were chosen ebo en to do what their people want them to do Some of or them were wee elected on prohibition platforms They are servants of the people and must do V their bidding Supposing the Z C M 14 MI i iI 4 I sent a mant est east to buy a certain i iline line of goods good and the man do It What would happen He would be dis die discharged charged he be heSo beSo L I So it is with the members of the I legislature They must mUM do as their con constituents t direct them to te do or take the consequences consequence These men come bore bare i leaving leasing their families hi hi the communities ties where they live and where wh re their neighbors and live n go b eff to them If they have not Mite their full duty doty A part of that duty is 18 isto Isto to vote for prohibition It would be a betrayal of trust In my mind miDd If Ir they U y did IId Id not oot cast ca their votes as the very great gre t majority of t the people want thin them t to S There Is te no question continued Mr Grant that this thi movement is 18 state statewide statewide statewide wide I J had a talk with President Keeler at Provo over the telephone yes yesterday yesterday and be assured 8 me that It was the understanding that the Utah t tab county delegation was pledged for prohibition 7 It is so 80 in many more counties I 1 might j V mention i it t I Is Business Proposition The adoption of prohibition in this Oils state means mean more mono to te the t e business man manthan manthan manthan than anything else el it if is the greatest I question of the age It would ee in the state at least f ii 1 seoN MM or 4 which Is i now sent t out of Utah for the purchase of whisky whity ky f r which is drunk here You ran can see what hat that means If It we e keep that money in inthe Inthe Inthe the state the possibilities pos of its Us earn earning rn lug lag capacity are practically unlimited It is a proved fact that a dollar in cir clr circulation does the work mk of 25 2 to in inthe Inthe inthe the course coun of a year It goes KoES into and through the channels of nf trade and in industry Industry lu try like the th blood through the veins of the human body We have bave demon demonstrated demonstrated that money a unit of If money does MO per pei er cent of work in n as many months or less Compared With Sugar The part the bre breweries eri s in Utah 1 play in hi this th matter is III insignificant In com corn to the vast vat sums sumo that are an annually annually sent ent out of the state We eo do not make whisky In Utah and we WI buy great Of tt It t mona moos sums of money p The net earnings of the th T Idaho sugar ugar enterprise ar are approximately 1 OMMO OMS a year We make a great boast of this industry but it in is not to be com corn compared compared 1 pared with what could b be done with the millions million that we send out of If the state each year for whisky And all an this aside from the moral degradation that follows follow in Ii I the wake of the traffic I t tell you jOU sir that It is 15 the biggest t finan financial cial question In years We Ve hear much about how prohibition ton tion will destroy markets and indus tries Now let us look at a few fig ures urea The market furnished by the liquor business according to tt t their then own figures figure run ram ru about like this Farm larm products consumed manu products used 1 la Ia bor her employed fuel focI burned freight and express OOt tax and license 1 revenue i As a matter of 0 fact the liquor deal dealers ers era use Ulle less than 6 S per cent or of the farm products produced in the country 4 f per percent percent percent cent of o the manufactured products product 2 per cent of or If lAbor tabor employed freight t 0 only 1 I per cent The United States market would woud scarcely feel eel the 1 Continued on Page Pane 2 r APOSTLE GRANT GIVES HIS VIEWS ON PROHIBITION Continued from Page 1 tion of the liquor I traffic raffle so 50 small a per pel percent percent cent is directed toward the industry What hat is the tho position of the Mormon Monnon church with reference to this ques tues question question tion The Tho Mormon church Is for prohibition prohibition prohibition tion The work that is being done nel nelIs Is under the tM direction of ot the loon League of America Some time ago every church was asked to name a trustee of the National League of ot America The first presidency of the church chose me as that trustee i I do not think there is any an question about the position of the church At the last conference President Smith made ma e his position clear when he delivered this th s portion of t his address Now Sow there Is a great movement on foot throughout the land its waves have hart struck us here and are arc flowing over our state a wave of temperance Even E on the world Is moved upon by an irresistible influence and to advocate rate cate and to establish among communities II In states and counties and cities clUes the principle of ot temperance I am In favor faor of this movement I endorse it with all alt my heart I know that it is In Inthe Inthe inthe the right direction and I 1 believe that the Lord Almighty is moving In that direction upon those who are willing to devote their labor and time to this por portion portion portion tion of his work in the world The Lord does not delight In intemperance in drunkenness s can he have pleas plea pleasure ure nrc In the poverty in the degradation and ruin that such practices bring upon their votaries and upon those who are arc dependent upon them the ruin of manhood the ruin of family organizations organizations organizations and the degradation of those that I are arc engaged in It and that poverty poverty I ty destruction and death upon them themselves themselves themselves selves ana ami an upon th lr families Every member of the church male and fe female female male mae ought to set his or her face as flint against Intemperance and against anything that Is In violation of the laws Jaws of God that they might never neer be overcome or yield to the temptation of ofen evil en We Ve ought to have purer com corn communities communities communities that are not ridden by b vice by b pernicious habits I and practices practice Following that declaration I 1 intro introduced Introduced Introduced the resolution of which you have havea a copy How do you stand with reference to local ocal option as compared with prohibition prohibition tion I Local option is not prohibition at atall atall atall all Just to show you A man In Da Davis Davis Davie vis vie county count said to me that local option in his county would do no good be because because because cause his boys bos would go either to Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den or Salt Lake and the object of ot all an allour allour i our efforts would be defeated We Ve need prohibition It is a business financial and nd moral proposition one of ot the big biggest biggest biggest gest that has ever confronted us |