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Show '&& vim- fo "t i .ypvfj Vr "'v - - fr" . ;n J Church Department i THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, r ?.f.;v'T 11. kvi-?- TABERNACLE SERM (LN jl Continued from pas fin.) Irirl a fw of these loyal 'clUscna, without fund for carrying tm ouch litigation, hav had tu hattl with thl selfish moneyed tinny of youth from our lowest court on and on, clear to the very top. by to. th that la aP. court of tho United Matessupreme where, thank God, a unnnimou decision waa Con i erwt . In favor of the people nd against the tobacco truat. Fm-mof CMIdlicwsI and outh 1 Hiring th s present contcat, fcrodght on again UU our legists- itumi by thl cm my of childhood and youth, hav been Induced with theiy vote to join th group who are selfishly aeektng financial instead of fighting a Utah gain men do Under normal condition with n Ur cat centh ipeopl who tered primarily In th welfare of the nun folk Of the statu, J say that in a democracy Uko ou r men are elected to represent and to'votq th will and thejpeopta wishes of the people on all matter If the wilt and th wlahea of th people are known to legisla-toror. If with reasonable effort thewa can b learned (And furthermore whan candidate for the ar nominated, nomination are generally mad of from th various group of th community.! And when, for on ha example, a party place ticket a reprcaeotatlv of labor If el voted la not only that individual by the group he rape, expected eii t to vote h will and wlahee of that group, but the ppbHm generally expeota Mm to repreaent th real wlahea and desire of hla eon-cl- il Ui nta, if then ar or ttenrte nouKh 1 al ropra-oentgU- ve i knoun, Wo Shall Fight On , with th help of Lhvln Provl-drmw propoae to on, to arh the goapel of thcarry Master, to to to elect men office try who with their vote will support our Ideal are struggling to bring up for a ft neuwtlon of young people a niaily as powlbla perfect even aa youi , Father which, la In heaven la perfl-otWo shall not get dismain tmue couraged because In life," says tha jlho founder of the modern "la not Olympic games, - the victory, it Ik thq fight; th essential thin not to have Won, tho nentlJ thing is to hav fought nd to have fought woll." Thl wa ourselves to do. aolnjinly the bum " hi I Inpledge Utah thor are apparently some of who dewlr to or.ng up hetr Sons and daughters on If, t r and clgarena, let ua pray fervently and unceasingly that we may bo successful! tn our efforts to prevent them from brlng'r.g up 0Ur ioupg folks In Oil same It Is nur flrm belief; it l ourway. conviction that liquor and tobacco are hot good for man. Th Lord him . so'emnly so ttiHilrew Kwenmod deolared, to Smoke Drink Imagine, Ilf you can, boy and 1r Slartually encouraged by ttgls. Mtlvi act to use brer I Km AT ishurtUirhtMl rnouKh to anru s rda no even those not vet our old ' crad. can sort those seductive, these Jlflah appeal and thus tutor ?rt mok-mhooi they nmy be ,soL? - It la It? argued that or LVo chiMH usl enemy f tntnklnd th liquor business, 1 with h n 1I tla power, deceit sort htdeoiisnrse In the fornt of an almost Ira, klstime lobby now I have great ym),thv for our teg. iSlator who are to face thl mighty enemy of mankind. 1 am told lexl-lntl thvt tu hells day tiee who ju), ,1 with lobhvlst, ar aellmh, those tpen who nine money sta tlrat The c'hirngo Tfltnine save that In the post tha Hotter business ha been the faithful ally of every vicious element 'tn American life, th It has protected criminals, ha the am lat oll and has bribed Politicians. Jnrce and legislatures Remember it )s hard for the leopard tn , hangs hbTspdt Tim T ncbuias of dc-? ought to spjtport the weak. said Paul the Apostle and y oUl ht to remember On wo, ,1s of the Rord a, nw ha said. It I nioie hi, seed to slvo than to receive The gieptest ne,al of th world, th greatest need of our own nation at this very hour ts rrhglon, th unaeilftahnesa of the t.ospcl of , d aeus Christ ,bt blll-bo- h. tat tm2ldIh-- ,, "V- i-taka conceded M'nt ot ,h receipt spent In aulvertlslng, thla the tobacco bo-- 1 ness out of Utah in cash each &.00 beti Idea doing un-to- ld damage, ) u i Mmc that no nwr. 135,000 annually, generally y immeasurable fos-tfre- d harm Th Uta0hruIo,n? flrUenough to pv ?k price. We are not rondy to eell I the characters, the the ebanees of eucceaa ofIntellect, children to th highest bidder, our IMeh Is not eo poor that Utah- is wilting to me- "I? ln ord,'f to enrich .1 millions of money th great American tobacco trust. ' TUvy Are law Itnwkcr Rut so me of these effective lobbyist may argue that the law prohibits the use of elgnrot by these Who ar less than S old. Rut what do many In the year a tobacco ear for th lw I am told that eigarets ar sold to minors nearly vrywher. t is oontrary lo the law of Utah also to amok in publlo places, yet you can not go vep to a dignified banquet la a publlo dining room, and he Kur that you will not have amok puffed Into your food and into tho luce of your friend and guest while they eat. Thla la on reason why 1 say that many of those Interested in tobacco hav llttto re ss Jc-U- True (WtrtsMao fils, I tn pay of our richest men said tn grant earnastnrrw to on of Ids intimate frlcndpk:1 Jo yon mean to toll me yon lure, tn favor of this proposed legislation If Us snaetment Into law win mean that your taxes will be, Inorensed ? " Indeed," replied the friend. If I am ten stlnp-- s a able to pay a la my neighbor. I II be glad to b required to pay tn taxes ten times t a much as he Is. required to this e but exercising a pay." Oolng little r of the Christ Ijip spirit of support- On Mnd-na- te - - 1 cigareta. Ihcn? Intha mlddlaanda gcaT No, 1". Ith8 the twentieth century. W here 1 Ip thl heart of Russia? No, here and now,! In th heart of here in own th rifht f Utah, our lobbyists to ,ur legislation that lm U will Invito f'n'hrsg'.ea m, 1rl8 11,0 beer and clgancta Has this powerful lobby, OUP )ov6 Of moAfy mode ua blmdl to facte? Science tells us un. nictkahiy Tint Alcohol it 2 wa5 nourishing food, nop t, lb Altoho ie ff poison; it is astimulant, narcotic ll" et are of tbr Mimrirr"nt am iho order 0t Or rtiiloroform. F,r1 Andrew I. WlU,c rZnr'Z, P1k tg1"" the Who Iftr yonnf, I t)Opban T of those do nnt desrrjve to he .ailed nrrow-mid-?- d speaking on this sub-- 1 merely for own people or .for the cltlseno my of my own stale-threason m part m lam shank ing (hits IS be,Mart that J guis lcqniv4tod so to do ,y my 'V bite. lor' nl rnAn,'JrW Ifnlvcratty of Michigan (University of kn 'hT' ffralilent of for,,,. It oni- vr;r..i,i nm,JJ""ndor to tierinnny, I,, d.dlt tgo to Im I'n"'1 message for la thetnlluwlng young pint pnople with lb,WOU,l' r6""' n fontact. lie hf fifty year K I "'"riaUon w(th hit, iits he had learned Umt rwllege howrvsr rich, however promt fv ming w hatever their social smoker of would amoupt to pa more p(grsta, and f'n1f4fhen thl irHiteitPb,sh Atldd - hnve never yet known a n. renumber ho .aid ?oung Jus who was a vnSoker of rig r, t, that ever mpupto, to any-thlin a l emon 0 me ho volt, I leonsulor letjcr npy young ntn M school,. In college, &r Ir any nyofesslonnl school as soriotM-lIndeed almost fninlly. handicap, ped W the habit of smoking Clilldrlen Taiufht to Knwr llofnre And ins. thin Hflinntifio njm, tn thic f(Mh reatury, I' g." 8t e l" ptJ. t llt ' y, i-- Tj ably consume. Thl fact was demonstrated during the World war. At thet time a large percentage of our population waa either In the armv or engaged in the manufacture of munitions of war. If. therefore half of th people working hours eight can protluca per dtfy w bat all tins people can reasonably Consume, and fan her vine piosptilly cau rt turn only after inn aliasing powir Is placed m the hands of the consumers, then th man who with nvetage ability p. r. pile himself with n iwonabl foil to profitable employment for four hours a day ought to be able for said sarvlie to secure enough purchasing power to provide him-se- lf and hi tnmlly not with tho neceltle of if. butonly for ueh ervle h might to be provided with many of life' comfort and p, rhnp huh many of the luxuries of our modern, sanitary, lnteiloo-toand radighiu lit. IJnttl all urh, ihe real consumer, tn every part of th country are by somo method or other provided with a reasonable amount of purchasing Power, prosperity n It most desirable form cannot return. H this greatly needed, this mat ith dominion prevailing, with the great tn asset of th people provided wth a reasonable' amount of purchasing power, poverty will be banished from tho nation. It 1 aald that machinery la producing so much snd with such efficiency that rayon fa, lory In New Jersey Is to bs built in which one man will be employed. Unless consumers are provided with purchasing power there can he no maiket for the product of thl novel and remarkable and In fact desirable institution. with Why men's hands should work he don which machinery can perform? Wealth Destroying Itself It I reported that one of our great manufacturers received in dividends for himself, for hi wit snd for his son in th year 130, U,Of,000. While thla automohtl king Is a great benefactor, bow ran ho expect to dispose of his prod- -' uct If he himself and other leadmanufacturer of our country ing are going to collect in dlvldtnda nd keep out of circulation the tremendous mountain of tilled up tv coll h? Dividends, profit or a largo percentage of thee must be put Into tho hand of tho consumer, thus giving to the consumer real purchasing power or clearly and certainly there can bo no market for the manufactured products of th nation When every manufacturer learns this fact and llvea In accordance with the lee-sIt ought to tench w will hav prosperity the like of which th world ha a yet never known. W shall then b practising the unselfishness of the UompoI of Jasus Christ, Gaining ot lucnoiaod Prwpnrkr if that 11.1100.000 and the fabulous dividends and profit other bualnctts men have received bad been divided with th people who helped to make these great fortune possible, Jf these great store of wealth had been divided with members el th extensive aalee organisations which extend throughout the length snd breifdth of our whole land. If this wealth which M actually th purchasing power of th nation, had, by Mini mean or other, been distributed among those who ar consumers, then th markets everywhere would hav been good and would hav been Improving all this time, would have been maintained, price factor e would hav operated at full capacity and prosperity would hv mogone on with ment um. Utiprmrdeutrd "Prosperity 1 ask you frankly If It does not secin that Ui great manufacturer sod bus, nc men of the land hav not, by accumulating the rest mountain of wealth, been following a suicidal policy? Ar. they not more or loss devoid of that Uhristlan spirit which teaches that we ought to aupport the weak, that w ought to remember th yvonla of th Lord how ho aid) It ia mon blnased to than to receive? Are the m IVglv wilt, fortune not more or leas hke the monkey tn the wild who in captured because of hi selflsh-nc- s. Trap for Mm end made of wire are filled with huts Ulrculnr ar provided lust largo opening enough to sdmlt th hand of th monkey, When In his hand? ho picks up n nut. he hi caught Th selfish snimal nature In Mm Is so tntense Ms roannntng pqwrr so an week, Ms natural seifishnos great, ths uns, Wish ChrlptHn spirit la to him p unknown and so that ths hav leg no reasoning powermonkey and no heller, hold end th knowing nwt and al cr-tafn- ly -- on "ha r1, . (Irectiug from the misunsrks f th Welsh district of the British miesioo have hoc received foUoss-tafil- ta holding of their spring conference at the Miner Ball hv Merthyr, Tydfil, Wales. Ru conference was an excrptloB-1- 1 y successful one, more tliau boo people, awst of whom were Invca-U-g store, attended tho evening v , Above fat jvliou) of tho rnhedon-ri- e of the distriut ami other who Mended the conference, and who send greeting to their frionda and relative a home and thetr aiwo- peot for tho Taw, they have little respect for the right and feeling of their neighbors end friend who do not amoks. helling Tour Son's huccen Is thl 125,000 which it is said advertising Civarets will bring to the mtate of Utah going eo boy profitable investment for you personally if this advertising, thl encouraging the uaeof cigareta even on tho part of our children before they can read, Is, In ths language of Itavld Starr Jordan, It going to add to your own son s not you troubles 'subtract from bis physical energy multiply hie aches and pnina, divide hi mental powers, take Interest from Me work and discount his chances of success?'' I stand fltmly for th well being of th children, I stand first for the health, happiness end sticcos of the hoys and gtrl of our Church and state even If when doing so I stand alone, These under the ago of II or 10 who do not remomher conditions during the days of th saloon should ho Impressed with th following quotation from the Chicago Tribune bf July 11. 191 Tt "If tho veritable narrative of th American seloon were ever written it wquld tnek the deeadenee of Romo look like an ago of pristine beauty In comparison. Conspiring Men and flrievou Wolves The liquor business has been the faithful ally of every vlrtous element n American life. It has protected criminal, fostered the soelat evil and bribed and log, Statures politicians, Juried, Proving true to form this perpel ses-sto- n, ' 1 plates la tle mission of the world. They tyr, left to right: M,'k . A,," Adams, Taylor Cannon, Herman L. Anderson, president of Ur Itristul 11 Cl If. Joseph H. t ford G. Green, I andhapman. Istubm w. M rational Wud row, lrof. Main M. llowq tvonslil 1C Iinsm, diatrtrf prCMldent; H)iUm 1. Roogta, blent of Um mvlwdon Mis. on Presidrat James 1, Ihmglast James H. Halils, inlmton ft tmirmreh; McCarthy, ltrltl-- h adasltm ,Uelih oilier, and Hugh rtrst W. Fleteher row. Higgins; IJewt-lland Herbert T. log the week nd retpem boring that it la more blessed to give than to receive. Why should th iisn whoso y and dividends him 10 or 20 dr 0 thousand ,toilers per year pay hut lit,) th es while comparatively the widow mho ha never had an Incoihe, greater than f 5 per month ts required to pay a comparatively high igx on her niodeat homej or, wSiy should th cheek ,wh hfon. 20 000 for hlsslfalf seed on and not enough the next to payyear expenses, b required to pay exactly the same amount; of taxes both '8r8T kurely If In th hearts of th people pr the slate there ia something of tho Christian If there I A realdasli to help spirit. to sup1,1 to port, to glv turn who are weak, provision which levy taxes ''b 8d unjustly will be modified. Conswnwv Mot' Ito Able To 1ttrciMso The prmrrit Unshtlsfactory bo only eliminated by tbs appUcatlon of fvtudamentol truth, by Ih unselftehnl of pf.tho Gospel' .Iiau Chris), t,y placing lo the hnnil of the (c,iiisu an ample pier or a reasonable amount of not what a It nation produo- -, )k what the nation eonsutma that brlnga prosper-jAt Is said that opr present business hsk bom out of dot sine James Walt patented th steam engl". iOnly approximately half lof lh In liming people of our natiop ne- - d to be employed in order Re produce what alt the' people in the country can reason " Ib-lk- fv in, ml-sr- ,. 1 V I Ju therefor captured. It seem that many of our men of wealth a re following thla same Selfish, unwise sort nf policy. They see clinging to th nut, they or piling Up great wealth that swav. the! they they must glv must dtatribule, wealth thy mut (livid with fvt her, if they provld ronsumeri with th power to pwr . It certainly clear to say (CiMtinuad On Tagc igW la 1 1 |