| Show I 1 I 1 ty IM b ENGLAND EMID I 1 I 1 remarks 11 L by elder J JL iff ii t t fauner A temperance THE THEME ME public bubli 0 libraries T ar are e not established bv saloon revenues the litter latter day saints at the tha meeting house on sunday were wera addressed by elder J al tanner he opened his remarks by relating reminiscences of the past the pulpit he occupied haa a peculiar significance to him oi o i account of the many to te chins he had heard beard from it from childhood to nan hood in the meeting house also he had for the last time gazed on the earthly re remains maint of his hii dear mother ho had I 1 been absent from the city for a number I 1 of ye yeara ars and the changes he noticed on an coming back were many children had bad grown to men and women woman and we former generations were passing away this caused him in a measure to feel that he was a stranger in the midst of the people among whom he had been reared this was not altogether a pleasant reflection to him tho the home of his hia childhood lost much of its significance in these changes there was a loss of home patriotism reference was made to his bis college life at harvard it was waa a cosmopolitan institution there was not that tendency there the renor generally in the thelast East wh ch is nor BO manliest nor le at in theowest to ask of strangers strangle who are you yon where did you vou come coma from how much money have you you got what is your business etc ac so he quietly pursued his studies until the time of president elliots elliote Elli visit to utah then the broad minded remarks or oi the president caused the utah students in hanyard yard to be sought out bv reporters report eri roi and questioned concerning utah and the mormon people the speaker was waa then approached by students of the college who asked if they might break down the barriers of propriety and ask some questions about utah and in some instances about th A mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 was interested continued the speaker in the new england people now new evaland contains a greater number of advanced educational institutions I 1 than all tho the bilanci of the united states I 1 am aware that it has been eaid that the new england laople are narrow minded and bigot ted in some respects perhaps tr is is but in others it is riot they possess many noble qualities they are an earnest and sincere people nail anti are zea zealous oui in their labors inmane in many eta allen you have seen ono one preat great city you have av eleu all there were many s t auns a ur 1 a bout about boston and Cam cambridge al are lile lil 1 e thoe of other larga ch ci it us 11 I 1 therefore re determined tb visit visa som eom of cf the smaller towns aud to do thia thi i with I 1 sole difficulty I 1 learned to ride a bi bevc ayce e in this maer ma er I 1 visited malj ach use t to connecticut and rho island I 1 stopped on the roat side giua siua aud talked talk edwith with the farn far aier or I 1 iti arged oa the street and cc conversed conver inversa sid d din aun a un the passerby universally I 1 found the people to be generous ind and ms ha i ranle anle an im important t feature I 1 bound to bo be the public lublic libraries villa villada villaga Vi llaga roii 01 ol ouo buo 0 or two houland houa and d inhabitants had excellent public lublic libraries containing mines almos an any Y bob vou could wish for chero the he local papera all leading of america and miny amny rom irom england france and germany very little children were wera there looking at the pictures and just beginning begin nina to reab there thera wera young men man and comm ond md the aged were also to ha ba seen Wit with houch eccli literary surround surroundings ingi we ind find young people browine gro gromme wine bright dud intelligent and with a love for litera ture ure they arc prepared to discuss intelligently elli telli gently on every subject any is it that hat in new england communities of ene ne or two thousand inhabit inhabitants anti they hey can have these public libraries I 1 thought this was waa an important ques tion lion to my Pe people OIe and so BO I 1 asked as sed of the new england people how bar thov could support abe theao zo liar libraries aries hiie re ply was we have local option liora hers and we have no saloons we have bacia banished hed them from our midst As aa soon as aa we did this we wa coul I 1 es wl libraries then than we r were ore not a raid tu to let our oar children po go out we 0 hod our doors and said go A srm sros sr js i amu reu ment I 1 said to the ci aur ul ui tie fie old city of salem out west it i ouch much a proposition were huebled aue Buz Bled nini nim i men out oat often ot tea would siy lot let salo onabe be tt started arted and with the revenue let libraries be ba established but bat strange to say very few libraries a are re started from the revenda from saloons W wb b have established probia prohibition said eaid the th mayor mavor of 11 to do this wo we hive fought the politicians anti and the tle people would have it I 1 courted five men list last night under the influence of liquor here in the city of provo diore than I 1 have seen in the tha cil city y of 0 cambridge of 8 am inhabitants in six six months in cambridge we have ou our r doors open at night as aa we used to do in an early day in this thia territory I 1 asked a landlord of a town of in in abitanta abi tants if I 1 build c mid have a key to my room you aie ae all right he ba said we wa rever never lock our doors have you any saloons here I 1 asked and he bo responded spon pG ded no who are your pro here I 1 wt ased ked democrats Demo crata or republicans her he replied the democrats get up their ticket and the republicans theirs and on each ticket is is the question cn for or against prohibition the newspapers are against it they I 1 try ry to show that it is is a failure the politicians and fooie Fowe times leL leading diug public men do the same bame but the people to 13 a rate favor prohibition last year 1 noticed unitta were crowine ov inz bolder than ever ii IE the great seaport city of boston thore was a movement for prohibition and the movement lacked 1000 votes of succeeding and yet I 1 have h heard e ard men man sav that a ma i 1 was a foot who would advocate aroh in in a town AS larga as salt lake lairs or provo prove or L lizan liean izan I 1 spent a great apal of time in in salem a town of some proportion sand and I 1 hava for the first time to see sea a policeman mania in the city ors or a drunken man maji I 1 was told thia that good men were called upon to accept public offices without pay there was no office seeking a ii man that he had done dona bid duty lut when he be had served a term of two yeara we dont want town politics said the mayor we believe they are skin to city politics and city polities politics are among the most corrupting in Ai america in those towns of now new where saloons are permitted the there re are no seats beats and no pool tables mg dpn n po go thereon there on the principle plo of the swine they stick their snouts in and drink but must go elsewhere to lie donn doan I 1 should like to see the people of utah put pat down these saloons it is possible for if they can be put down in towns of inhabitants and no man can say they are not they can be put pat down in the emal towns of utah I 1 have been a boy in these saloons and I 1 know how near they came to ruining my life I 1 sat in then and I 1 to the wit and funny stories of hall half drunken men aben I 1 had no desra des ra for liquor ant 1 acquired an 0 o elite forit for it and also for tobacco shama shaine on veer revenue and shame ou a people who will barter the baals of their sons and daughters tor for re revenue vencie an you con ask god t rel relieve lieve yon from your financial when you yon permit saloons in your never saw peo pie EO much iu want ut ot revenue in in my life what want r revenue av nue when yon have these h hiah vh licen licensed Bed aa faloona gootis in your midst I 1 there is no want of revenue in Ne new england youlay you lav it tr to the boom Damo democrats crata lavit lay it to the republicans and the tha lay it to the democrats while others lay it to the gold bogs bags but I 1 have not heard a man say it its is a just retribution of god on a people who will barter the souls eoula of their fons cons and daughters for revenue venno re god has been kind to provo may he smite it again and may he continue cou con to s smite ite it an longas lonz as the people shall value M rei re denue higher than tile the souls of their sons ona and daughters let the saloons be put down if but one soul be saved the speaker added a few remarks on restraint urging its ita exorcise exercise by individuals divi duals anti ana communities he quoted the words frequently used by his mother restraint is the hand band maid of liberty for sixteen years he had been brought under restraint by his bis studies i it had bad ceased to he be irksome to him and ho he dreaded the day when he h should be from under restraint in conclusion he applied what be had said concerning restraint to his temperance theme if this people have thrown off restraint in regard to their sons and daughters has not ano just juat retribution of god come coma upon them |
