| Show oo SESSION Elder Eider II It J firant Eloquent Temperance lecture The second session Hession of or the conference convened In the Tabernacle commencing commencIng ing at 2 Tho Time large largo congregation lion tion present listened to n IL strong and anti discourse by Elder Hebor J Grant of ot tho tue council of the tho apostles Seldom has a n more forceful temperance lecture been heard In hi tho the historic au aim auditorium Tho The speaker contended that It Is bight tIme thu tho people of or this thlu state alato joined In the time great groat prohibition move moe movement ment that th t IH In sweeping the tho country a sentiment that ho lie reiterated emphatically cally call In n it private conversation at nt Uio the close of ot time the meeting President L Morris over the tho services Elders William V III lam As Asper Asper Aser per er and Albert AV W V Davis offering tho tim opening and closing prayers Tho The selections rendered by the choir were wore For Forthe Forthe the tho Strength of tho the Hills We Bless Theo Thee Yo Ye Souls Who Stray Sha and Lift Up Your Yom Heads Oh Ye Yo Gates ELDER ELDEn HEBER J GRANT Elder Grant read u II portion of ot tho the first section of the thu Doctrine anti and Cov Coy Covenants In commenting upon the tho vers yore verses verses es Os read tho tim speaker drew particular at attention to the words contained therein that hint when hen tho the Lord shall come comae men shall be bo recompensed according to their Oi ics while In mortality The Tho section of or tho the Doctrine and Covenants known as the tho Word Vord of or Wis Wisdom 15 thorn dom was referred to by tho the speaker who said that at ot the risk of being belnA con considered considered dry ho he would devote devoto part of or his hili discourse to the reading of ot certain excerpts One of these was the tho fol lol following 01 I lowing 10 win very unusual advertisements of ot ofa a II I Tombstone Arizona denier dealer In li hi liquors I I i I SALOON ADVERTISEMENT Tombstone Ariz Aria claims credit for time tho frankest In Ute the United States Ha lie keeps tho timo Temple TempI liar Bar saloon and advertises his hili business s with most enterprising frankness Al JI Allow Allow low mo me to Inform you that you are lire fools he be says ys yet et his hla place Is Iii usually tilled filled Ho lie maintains that ho hols Is an nn honest honc saloonkeeper anti and that It will not hurt his business to tell the tho truth about it Ho lie has had printed an ad n caul caril which would mako make an excellent manuscript for fOI a temperance lecture Copies are being circulated through the western states and are aro at nt attracting attracting attention The Tho card roads reads as follows Friends and Neighbors I am nm grate grat grateful o ful tul for past favors anti and having sup supplied supplied supplied plied my may store storo with wi th a 0 line lino lot tot of choice wines and an 1 liquors allow me inc to Inform you that I shall continue continuo to mako make I paupers unit amt beggars for or the sober Industrious respectable part of ot thu tho community to support My liquors will wIlt riot robbery and bloodshed They will diminish your comforts Increase your expenses and shorten your life Ufa I shall aIm confidently recommend mend amend them thorn as euro suro to multiply fatal accidents and Incurable diseases They rimey will wll deprive some of or life lite others of reason many of ot character and anil all allot of ot pence peace They Thoy will 1111 make mako fathers lends fiends wives widows children orphans orphana and olId nil I will train your youl sons lions in III Infidelity dissipation Ignorance lewd lowd lewdness ness mocKs out every other vice I 1 will 11 cor corrupt rupt thu the ministers of ot religion obstruct tho time gospel the church and cause causa as Ill much temporal and eternal death as ns I can I 1 will thus thas accommodate the Ole public It may bo be at the loss loas of my m soul boul nut But I have a family to support the business pays tho pub public public lic lie encourages It ItI ItI I 1 have paid my license licence fluid tho tIme traffic IH is lawful and If Ir I 1 dont lont sell Hell It U somebody else will I know tIme the Bible says BarS Thou shall ahalt not kill 1111 No drunk shall ahall enter the tho kingdom of heaven hellon and I do not expect the tho drunkard muk muker or er to faro fare tommy any bettor better but 1 I want an easy living and I 1 have resolved re to gather tho the wages of Iniquity and fat tut fatten fatton ton ten on oto tho the ruin nf of Orm my ray species I l I shall hall therefore carry curry on my busi business nose ness with ever energy Oller and do my may best to 10 diminish the tho wealth of or the tim nation and endanger tho the safety of or tIme the tuttle A Atu As my business In proportion tion to your YUill and ammil I 1 will wilt do my host hoat to prevent moral macrat purity mind and Intellectual growth Should you 01 doubt tl my toy ability I ro re refer for fer you to thu tho tho the tIlt tho police court the thu hospital tIme the anti and time the gallows you yon will sill Shut many of my best customers have havo gone A sight lIght of or them will wl con comm convince vince Inco you YOl that 1 1 do what I 1 say Allow mo me to Intermit inform you rOil OIt that you are 1110 fools oola and nad that I tim am tin un honest hottest saloonkeeper ARE AIm NOT NOr Tho speaker said he lie thanked Cloth Clod thi no can claim fellow fellowship ship In hum thu tho Church of Christ of or it Tho Vito Word of oWls Win WIs Windom dom was tvan given by tho time for or III tho tIme temporal salvation of itt o Ills His people rime following t ca and 1111 comments front from Colliers were read us UH tile Ihu tremendous u n of or lied liquor In Ito and time the United Slates mates HILL unI rime Thu of Great arent drink bill fur for 1100 IU 6 In It U appear that In Itt Unit that year tILi time the for Y I million people of or the tM United Kingdom I barrels of if beer buer O gallons of ot spirits 1 of and of itt o oilier other liquors ellough to muku a 1 tiko Ilk that would a n hundred battleships Taking nil iou of if together every 1 vo 1 mOtion und amid child chilli In tho the In eluding Infants In Ito lInns nearly 30 0 coining about 18 IS or QI say eay lt SUO o per pur fetidly family Thin at out joust t a I nf of tIme UI luh lall family Income Tor time Ihu whole whittle kingdom lImo Hie liquor bill hili of IDOa Juao to tn lint Uh Iah l h IN is to torn in mn I now lOW IIO by h h hou ou Insistent otto ono for fiu out old age till tIle other oilier for or Thu 1111 navy navr d tl 11 Ue i tho th country must moist build two ships to Ocr Gel Germanys one ono and that It cannot 1 the tho money and und still carry out omIt the governments pension program Tho The cost of ot nn on old ago age pension p scheme schema Is estimated nt lit from trum to fo n a 11 year ear according to Its libel liber liberality nItty The most liberal plan which goes goell fat far beyond 1 anything now no pro 1110 proposed posed by h tho government would cost costa a little over oer of ot tho the nations drink bill A seventh part of tho re ro remainder would built build 10 now new ne battle battlo battleships ships which Is IB moro more titan than the Uio most moat enthusiastic advocates of naval expansion expansion sion have thought to be bo necessary By themselves to three hundred million dollars worth of or beer tumid and two hundred hunched million dollars worth of spir spirits spirIts spirits its without curtailing their consumption tion of or wino or oIlier liquors at I t nil all thu tho British people could coull have their old ago age pensions and their battleships too To check any nn tendency to moralize at tot tho the expense of or others It may ma bo worth while to mention that In the time samo same year ear In which Great Britain was wag con consuming consuming suming gallons of ot liquor we were consuming gal Sul gallons gallone lone Ions Ve Wo might say sa that oven even these figures showed us to bo be drinking less ices titan than the tho British In proportion to population population lation lallon but bitt It happens that tho the British excess was nil all In beer Wo We drank over oer three times as tie much distilled spirits when In to population wo we should have havo hud bud only twice ns as much Yet tho the British race Is not particularly pl noted for tor abstemiousness In tRo ilS matter of strong waters winters Leaves from tho the Diary of An Old Lawyer was liberally quoted from by Elder Grant as depicting depleting tho the curse of or Intemperance Sonic Some of tho tIme excerpts excell ts read as follows INTEMPERANCE INTE AND MD CRIME cm IE I believe that It will twIll require tho the force of the whole people MEN and anti WOMEN VO IEN applied ut at the tho ballot box to effectually blot out of existence tho great curse curio to the country Tho The Laws that license mind and permit the tho sale sole ot of alcohol as us a 0 beverage I dotty deny the right of the tho government to sell soli to one citizen the tho privilege ti to tempt another to commit crime I doubt the tho policy of ot those laws that seek to raise a revenue by the tho sale of or that which de do debases debases bases the tho people Is time the prolific source of or crime and amid pauperism and costs the country annually a II thousand times more than the tIle received there thero Item I 1 deny tho the Justice of those laws law that on ono one page of time the statute books legalize that which promotes crime erlmo anti and makes criminals and antI on the next provide severe penalties to be admin adminIstered to those they havo have tempted to transgress I I This little volume Is presented to time the public to promulgate these views They Thoy may bo be thought radical and perhaps are so butt but they the aro are tho the result ot or long iong years ears of experience In our crim criminal crimInal inal mat courts and are but bUla a feeble ex cx expression of my abhorrence of the vice of or Intemperance and time tho laws that en and promote to it Toll Toil me mo I hate hato the time bowl bow Hate Huto Is ISIL a t feeble word 1 I abhor my very vory soul soulBy soulBy By strong disgust Is stirred I see soe or 01 hear henr or tell tellOf tellOf tellOf Of the time dark beverage of or Hell Hail lie II My experience at the tho bar has han satis satisfied tOOth fled me mo that Intemperance Is time thu direct cause came of or nearly all Limo tho crime that I mm t committed In our country countr I 1 have havo been at nt time thu bur bar over thirty thiN yeats havo been engaged tin on over four thousand criminal cases CIL ICS and amid on reflection I am ant satisfied that over three lute thousand of ot those cases have havo originate from alone and I 1 believe that thata a a grout groat proportion of or the Uio could bo be traced h ced either cither directly or In Indirectly indirectly directly to this great source of crime In 10 cat cases ca of homicide forty fort juno boon beon caused by thu tho madden maddening ing log of or strong drink I 1 have havo Scott scan upon time the counsel coun el table lable of ot our omir court courtroom courtroom urt room thu scull of an aged father who was WILS killed by a mu son My brother and myself sat by his side as its II his counsel and ana I never neer shall forgot the time look of or that son Ron when the tho ghostly evidence of or his guilt was laid upon the stand before him Tim t silent but eloquent witness It was wan but an arch of bone and was handled carelessly by tho the Jury In III their Investigation yet ot It had Imad once been beell covered by a 0 fathers gray hairs beneath It had throbbed a abrain abrain abrain brain full of pride anti and affection tOt for forthe the tho son hon who VItO was watt now on his trial for murder and amid OH its It passed from front hand to te hand tho the fearful expression on time the face of ot tho tIn accused plainly told tho the terri tern terrible blu ble feeling of ot that tilled Illicit his sou soul I It was Itil a mm II wicked and most un unnatural natural crime and begot feelings of loathing and horror In the tho breasts of toll nil who witnessed the tho trial Yet It wits not In reality the tho semi BOH who had tho the crime but the demon dumon that lurks III In every cup of strong drink And that cup had hM boon been lea and placed to the tho lips lip of or that son by b tIme tho hand of ar a II mutest moat respectable member of o society a unman man who oho hod imail a mm I from that very court to sell Bell ell that tIlt which the thu brain and lId prompted tho the hand to murder I aw flaW upon that table tho time scull of or young B ll who wo was killed by his hili Intimate friend In ito n it drunken brawl nt lot Hartstown and tho tIme abiu proprietor at tot who o lintel hotel the wa II maid and who sold Hold tho the maddening spirit that prompted time thu deed ded won M It a witness at thu trial He lIt wild he ito had a ti license from re ro court to 10 sell liquor yes from rom rota time thu v very vury ry court them thon Hitting In Judgment on eq that act aOl which WitS was but lint thu tho th natural Of ot tho tIme It had sold tutu and granted I L soon scout upon that tattle tho Cull of Cur It u lIttle child with time thu evidence upon It of or a I blow Inflicted by tho the hand hUld of if a tL drunken mother Yet YetI It I t WIH ovas tint not the thi mother who luau had com coin committed thit most unnatural crimI All Alt Allour our u of tho tIme or the thu henrt dOilY deny tho time charge Who thal his hla own mother anti and amther her maternal lou could coull believe It II No NoA A demonical spIrit had lied violated tho time of tint tho heart and cast out 1111 tho time loving that there thore and that wits wan time the spirIt of ot strong drink sold Hold to a II wo woman 11 man by a IJ mutt man who sho hold a to noil tinder tho tim seal sea and sanction of or that thai very vory ery court I havo seen scott upon that tho thin bloodstained of a II wife ife cl cleft ft from trum top to unite by an nn axe In lit time the t 10 hand Imand ot ci ota otIL citi a ti brutal drunken who VItO Mint came homo hOme front from a I neighboring boring licensed elt boor beer shot tooling n oll n 1 drunken and maddened d db by b minnie drink there old by a it most ro To Rp denier dealer by a II mm nina man who had hiatt n a lp legal al right might to sell that poison whoso effects are moro manro terrible titan than th plagues confined within the tho fabled box of Pandora and under whoso Whose bc Influence The Tho hand hund that should shield the wife Ito from III lii In Iti drunken d run ken wrath Tn th Is U raised to kill killI I 1 once defended n It man for tor killing his hili own OIl brother by b whom In ft a lit of or drunken frenzy frenz ho Ito hail had been Jeen attacked l with a dangerous weapon thereby com corn compelling him In III his hlo own on defense to strike a IL blow that luul Imad taken his tile broth brothers ors ers life lire Ho lie WIll was tried for hot murder anti and andIn In hl loIs hili defense I tailed called tho the landlord to prove that thaI tho time murdered brother was total mad from rota the tho effects of the time liquor ho had hind received at the witness bar Ha lie HaBO HIo lieso BO so o testified yet seemed conscious of no wrong Why Wity he ho Ho lie had iad td a II from time the court and why wh should that brothers blood blond cry to lo hoon for tor vengeance against him Oh no ho hut hewn was wn a I respectable citizen 1 a good oo 1 moral character for tor the tho law grant licenses to nono imone II on 11 other Ho lIe timid had a n legal right U ti to lI tho the mad cup to his fellows lips Up and no noone one nile should complain of or him Ho lie luau had acted In accordance with Ith tho the law and did not one of or greatest and anti Jest best of men say that the Ute law watt was |
