Show Nev blood should be introduced every ev-ery year with chickens turkeys or in r fact with any of the feathered tribe in order to keep up the vigor and health of the fock m i J > AT THE CHURCHES Prohibition the Theme For Much Discussion I G F GOODWIN TALKS DOES NOT LIKE TIE ATTITUDE OF THE PKESS Rev Clarence T BroTrnn Lecture at tIt First ConsreKtttiomil Church on Washington Presidents Wood rnfl nail Cannon Speak at the Tabernacle Tlie First Baptist Church I Hon George F Goodwin and Rev i W D Mabry were advertised to speak at the First Methodist church last night on the subject ot Prohibition The topic was a divided one Mr Goodwin taking the economic end while Dr Mabry discoursed upon the effects of prohibitory laws upon government gov-ernment I Both speakers took a shy at The Herald and Tribune and from their remarks a synopsis of which are apart I a-part of this article it is apparent that both pastor and layman intended to be understood as charging the papers referred re-ferred to with being auxiliaries of the liquor element Mr Goodwin began his address fvith a reference tp the allegorical I n alegorcal representation represen-tation of The Flag of Our Country at the theatre He wandered off in the honeysuckle bowers of poesy when he came to describe the fair maid with the rose in her cheeks the wind in her bonny curls the soft light of hallowed love in her lustrous eyes who represented repre-sented Utah Then he mounted the staircase of oratorical intensity to the landing of profound desire where he halted to utter the honest wish that this new state may come into the sisterhood of the union unsullied spotless spot-less and pure This altitude was a little high for the speaker and he took the elevator down to the level where ordinary humanity sits passive and turned loose an entire battery of figures the foremost statements among being that rum and all its alcoholic synonyms syno-nyms was the cause of fourflfths of the crimes and sixsevenths of the paupers which and who afflict this land of the free and home of the dauntless I is proposed so Mr Goodwin said to prohibit the manufacture manufac-ture of paupers criminals lunatics and drunkards in Utah This will be done if possible by having the constitutional convention submit a prohibitory clause to a vote of the people Mr Goodwin asserted that 700000 000 in coin of the realm is expended by citizens and residents of the United States for drink in all its various forms His estimate of the number of King Bibblers army who marched I each year from the saloon to the sepulcher sepul-cher is 100000 who placed four abreast and four feet apart would reach from Salt Lake city to Garfield Beach The speaker did a little computation on the amount of bread this 700000003 would buy with an astonishing result Other computations followed regarding re-garding product n etc which were succeeded by a blackboard display of the estimated cost of running the loons of Salt Lake the figures showing show-ing a total of 350000 A factor in the saloon business of this city and an argument iused aga nst its abolition lies in the fact that those engaged en-gaged in the whiskey business contribute contrib-ute 75000 yearly toward the revenues reven-ues of the city But this could be made up by an additional ta of 2 mills on the dollar After quoting a few statistics from Kansas Iowa Maine and the Dakotas Mr Goodwin criticised the Tribune for an expression anent property rights of liquor men and this journal for a mild expression of opinion a Whisky men paid in days gone by large sums for just such defenses and if the Tribune had not received any money for this editorial it had overlooked over-looked an opportunity Having an engagement to speak at retired the Presbyterian church Mr Goodwin Dr Malicy Speaks While there was nothing in Dr Ma Whie i brys address savoring of acrimony of expression it was evident that he does not take kindly to the manner ir which the morning natters are dealine with the question prohibition The press generally opposes the policy Of course there are and has been notable exceptions The morning papers of this city apparently antagonize this proposition The Tribune with Its brilliant editor gets its inspiration from The Hraaid In its latest argument he had expected something new but the theories advanced ad-vanced were so old and threadbare that they didnt smell good The statement that the other parts of the territory had no right to vote as to how Salt Lake county shall act as to drinking or not drinking was summed up by Dr Mabry in this way I the writer meant what he said he knew better when he wrote it As Salt Lake is to be the capital of this state those outside have a right toy to-y what kind of a city it shall be Something saved from immediate consumption lo be used in future production duction is Dr Mabrys definition of capital As no money invested in the liquor business can be classed as capital capi-tal under Dr Mabrys explanation ergo the whisky men have no vested rights in their business Concluding Dr Mabry compared the Tribunes statements with those of men who claim that prohibition is a good thing much to the formers disadvantage dis-advantage especially as Senators Hale Frye and Statesman James G Elaine were quoted and wound up by advising advis-ing all io weigh the evidence in the case and not believe all they read In newspapers |