| Show TEMPERANCE T EM PERANCE REFORM I BY REV H J TALBOTT Superintendent of Missions M in Utah Ut h Methodist Episcopal Ch Thc News es editorial on Fruits of oi Temperance is timely and iid strong Utah will very CI soon have lo to face act the question on its ils it own on merits as ash it has Im been heen net met in other states The Ilic Prohibition Re Reform Reform form is i both ethical and anti economic in iii character People of keen perceptions and anti of f strong ng moral lOral l convictions are arc awake to lothe the meaning of the tIit movement in its hearing upon morals IU orals livery Every philanthropic person must rejoice when society throws strong barriers har around the young lo to 0 guard them from undue temptation arid anti reaches out a firm hand to deliver the weak from from bonds too strong for or them the III to lo break IrSak There is an ait cle dc clement ment of in the Prohibition movement that has tins not always been admitted 10 To o thoughtful person doubts the tho right of society to 10 its ils members from contagion even ceu when the measure for protection work ork u n hardship to very cry many worthy people Nor or does docs any one question 1 the right or wisdom w of 01 protect protecting ing our youth from moral contagion by hy the of I indecent pictures s and of vile literature And Ild yet the appeals made iliadI against prohibition which arc based upon individual rights arc at al bottom a denial of com coIn community rights A long step stel toward the adjustment of many man questions of public interest will have been taken when the truth is fully recognized that thai in a t fairly organized civil chil condition there can he be no tin individual rights r that contravene the rights of hit But the present pre ent temperance movement mo is perhaps more inure distinctly economic than moral It is tone none the less worthy the support of ofal all citizens on Oil that thal account If I r f thoughtful people wonder that so society society has tins so long bug endured the th degradation imposed by intemperance they must he lie astonished that public p sentiment would so long submit to the financial burdens saddled upon the community by the lie liquor busi bust business business ness hess in its effects The Ilic sample of posters displayed in the News Ne of the was out of date months ago for it is proven by incontrovertible facts such Mich as arc cited in iii the thc editorial of the same date that as ts an economic measure prohibition has no rival Prohibition pays It is IS good business sense for the she public to go in in for prohibition Upon the thc economic SOld side the case casc is i tremendous upon the ethical side it is over ocr overwhelming whelming Ill tug Experience has litis shown the most practicable method of arriving at such a control of oi the liquor business busi less as its moral and amid economic e o effect t lO community co it demands tics lies along the lh and Local Option OP route That I hat method is us IS rio lau fair to ilL it l IS sMie and it is IS practicable pu It must be clear cli ti to careful clr c ful ob observers observers servers that this method will probably be pursued until wet set counties in it any ally tn progressive state will ill be the rare raie exception We VC shall soon be facing the tile issue in ill Utah What the tile immediate outcome will be he no iio one OtiC can say sa Two Iwo things thing arc are pretty prett clear however ho ever In the first place so 50 far Jar as nearly the whole state is con concerned concerned the result will sill depend upon the attitude taken and ails maintained toward the movement by hy tIle the leaders of the Church of Saints for they tile hold the key I c to 10 the lie situation It Jt is believed that thai so much may 1111 be hc said without offense since it is the lie statement of what would appear to be he generally conceded In Tn Inthe Inthe the next place whilst neither this bitt writer riler nor any aty other person has authority to speak for the constituency of other religious bodies in Utah there can be belittle little doubt built that on un a deal cleat mid and Local Option issue the tile majority of that constituency could be he relied upon lipon to give a strong and auth hearty heart support where it would most be lid needed and where it would tell most must powerfully It I t may well be he hoped that the News editorial lorial will sill lear hear fruit ant and that I ItI a measure of such manifest public utility as the and Local Option measure has proven itself to be bc will soon boon engage Hie sup SlIp support support port of a majority of our II II I 1 J TALBOTT |
