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Show Church Department f JTITB DESERET jNEWR, SATtJRDAY, MXY27, 1933. ii Thoughts On Prohibition and - - Prohibition 1 ; b-- e, - i.. 7 -- . nn-le- aa 1 nor I . I 1 THAVE bven sitting jivr all tlte vcnlng, wondering kt njy very different state of mlil from tho stato of mind of all those who have addressed yon. I have had more than twenty jean' observe eion. as a ectcnufie man, of the under discuerton prohibisubject tion or no prohibition.; ' remember well that, twenty years ago or thereabouts, J was entertained by the Harvard Club of Louisiana at a large dinner la the wity of New Orleans, where I a next to a gentleman who was generally recognised lit New Orleans as the leader of their bar. J noticed the moment We aat down that there was an ettraordlnary dirink on. tho Variety of things table: and I also jo noticed that my neighbor took everything that waa passed soand In large quantity, M much that I began to be a little anxious about his condition later Hut suddenly be turned to me and paid.! "Mr, President, dp you know tliat the New Orleu ns I as Its leader, are going inbar,forand complete prohibition In the state of I could -- not help surprise that he waa going h 'for that. Whereupon be eald, "W eil, you don't suppose that e. the members of tho bar, ex- -, prvt to have tho law applied to us do (you? .Laughter. J, He was positively a vigorous advocate of Complete prohibition fol Louisiana, but all the time had not the slightest notion that a prohibitory could he appurd to hliffi or anylaw of a friends, or would be,-- I ' liras : dome what Thpt opened my V,r,:ard to I1 with Wrhb'h the sudden, expcUKun unanfrimua sup-P- ut Of prohibition canid to In the southern states. It 'was pass unanimous. you r. nu tuber, nearly and remions so to this dav. .frbe south-Vrn states are the strongest su in this coun'ry pt prohibitory gisiation. Tlibn, some time I found a ll.Crfard g j u"fy n'js.if. attending in the stale of Missouri. were many to drink 1 wu it dinner also. things informed that some of the lending citi. sees If Missouri. engaged in manufacturing operations, were going to move their plants over into the state of Kansas. I Wrved later Ithat a large nutnl r of Mis- onri manufacturers iid move thvjr Plants over into the state of Ivans; l. and learned, on that those manufacturersinquiry had inado up their minds that they business much Jr.0ndUct in a state w here ia tory jaw existed than Iheyprohibi!',ate wher that law didcould not exist I hpve , had the delight of Pase--tov summer for more than o y!irVfirst began4 fifty-twto ge to Mount temert in ftumniiwwin me wo tat Thera i that the prohibitory law inobserved Maine was not observed at am n co jn m unities where, I excepting as one guest has said tonight, the great majority of the population was in favor of prohibition.. There alone was the distribution of- alcoholic restrained. I livid Jrinks iftv summers, observing the there feet that the prohibitory law in Maine was not generally enforced; observing that the aummefi residents state of Maine, rwho, as rf the know, live all along the shore In several of the I beautiful lake regions, paid no attention to the prohibitory law. j AVhat inferenee did X draw that experience T Slmply that from tile strong maloritvsiot any government unit In the states where laws exist wfi in favprohibitory or of prohibition, the lai would, as a -matter of fact, not pi enforced. jl Bat further: It was obvious that no single state could possibly enforce prohibition, because It had no power to prevent the manufacture of alcoholic drinks outside mate or their impoitatlon into tho It. Tou must have national" prohibition ito make prohibition effective. It must be nationwide, or It simm - ply cannot he enforced, j it supported for many years In Massachusetts, not prbhthitton, but local option; but them I learned that the sale of distilled liquors tn saloons licensed to set) light wines and beer cannot be (Prevent- -' ed. Nobody should advocate the repeal pf the Volstead Act except those who believe In tltto sale of alcoholic beverages. I ought perhaps to say that 1 took wine or beer when 1 was in tho society of people who were using them. I never had an v habit of drinking them at home; ut I always took them when I; was In the company of men or women who were using them. X had n that alcohol wan bad fob feeling everybody. or bad for me. I nesier knew alcohol to do me any h firm : but then I never drank distill, d liquors at all. When tho United Mates tn tl Spring of 1I5 went lu war. unre-strlet- ed Elder lenry Sttiilh, Editor! Church MTUon, Ih8ertt New. City, J i Dear brother jftimtht . j v Instead of hav ing my secretary transcribe one of the manv ir'"7.'V ,d '! ' f l, by me While visiting tlio various stakes to be Im 1 ha.vl! CM"'liHh'd to hand , nnhi';.arilno!iUi,1y address jnuuo d cuwuj Fame inuortviu Phib , a,e hook. py Charles w Elliot; printed by the Ailantw ''A'i;aieiUn.;rt?; Monthly Press at Boston. in 19U. The address was Club of Poston, March Xt 1923. andgiven before The Economic 'reprinted front The Official organ of. the National Economic league. The , 1 a i f-!iio;h.vr;' 1 , v?-tt- Cnn-cens- us, ' - my recent he j eon-remt- oa .d . that during tha present agilation for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment these two articles are as appropriate as of sermon any, that alcohol to . degree, Li demoralise mak ' "be sell re who rmk It. I be. Itevl be time It Issues CtCNfn coiled he dlstlitery1! polnonouo empties into the hell of crime- SCerebSre dcmoratixee touches It. 1 de u toOy cen without be. u? hmjudlced against Ih re1asrlrireAM 1,u hav to do ML L E1 wrecks upon either wem of death o re k. the Ignorance, ef re- f Mt'YJ f ,h iWe children ,ad5 dresses, of weih wives asking ref bread despairing ; of the mere of genius W has wrecked; of the millions bve Struggled with imaginary who sera this devlli-- k , rere" Kna?rr when "!! you, think of tho fjails, of tho s, of the ffre0".handI? If doth notscaffolds upon wonder tha very thoughtful man la prejudie-- I fid against the damned stuff called alcohol, HUBERT O. INOratsOU. certain fm 1 j11";- B BKt-IB2- . could possibly bee j Sinfjeriely .your brother,' i"d f alms-house- -- V , yon reiiidubcr at nil the with the lll Ilian bus her brow. Her love transrehdeni filla uup-pnuUi-orlU- ls the. respects; and those are thinge we have learn td love, to order togotescapeto from thin wretched evil of alcoholi1 . ism; But how shall jws da It? We must cultivate in ourselves the fins er inspirations, the purer delight and the , greater Joys in art and in work., But, more than that wo have got to practice resistance to acknowledged manifest svila in our common Hr. j 3 Way of IJvlug Tliat ha always been mv Wray Of living, from day to day, in the practice of my profession Prom the beginning, that was the way I lived. I attacked what seemed to me a' plain, acknowledged, manifest evil, and advocated the best remedy I knew for that evil. That is Just what we have got to do today, gentlemen, about tols abominable vil of alcoholism associated with venereal disease; bemuse that evil wlii kill us unless we kill it. By ' us'' t mean the v hlte race. and the American slock. particularly Must we not accept the proposition that we must either destroy alcoholism And venereal disease. of those evils will us? I believe that to be file plain truth; and I want to call jOn every lover of his kindred and of his country hourly; daily, yearjafter vear.j to contend against thevo evils, aico- holism, apd vener-disease, until are obliterated from the they world, Finally, may we not reasonably1 distrust the legal view that has been repeatedly presented here this evening, namely, that tha rights and privileges of decent snd vigorous people should not bo abridged for the wsake of indecent or weak people he abuse their privileges? Charles W pilot. In 'those or eu nnd ot the offlueru in the nraiy nnd wnvy, our govrerun rat ennreed prohibitory low for tho mdaw Surrounding Uie cnmpn nnd bnrrwks where the national army w being nwwmWed, 1'tie act proy- -' ed In be eflcclivt and highly Ml eflerai Then I mid to myself, If tliat Is the netloa of my Government to protect our aolOO-r- s nnd mi lore preparing to go to war, I tlilnk M In time for me to abstain from drinks altogether, It Is only since lfij that I have been a total abstainer; but that la now six years ago, and I want to here, now. that by adoptingtestify total abstinence, after having had the oppo-ait- ei habit for over seventy years, one loses no Joys that are worth having, and there Is no about it. On the contrary, I enjoy social life and working life more since I cessed to taka any alcohol tlum I did before. That talk,: gentlemen, about and pleasure-losinand so forth, ia, absolute, nonsense for .a who has any sense himself. map Different Approach As I said, I have listened to all the speeches tonight and the the questions with an answering of increasing sense of the absolute difference between my ! approach to this subject and the approaches of the speakers to whom you hays listened, I approached the whole . question from this point of view, simply: Here is a tremendous evil in the world Of course, a compare- tivety new evil. To be sure, we read In sacred Scripture and Mfl in many other thato the former generationsplaces, of men, like Noah, for example, did upon occasion, get drunk; but that fact Is irrelevant ia the presentabsolutely contest against the hideous evil which came Into the world when Jamaica rum and whiskey, made from cheap grains became accessible to ail aorta at men and women. That ia the source andJ starting point of this horrible modern evil of alcoholism and venereal disease-- 1 they go together which has come upon the white race since, I say, the fifteenth , J century. We all know that our Puritan ancestors and our Pilgrim ancestors were not persona who d the finer .of life. They left behind them joya -, the great architecture ef England, and its and it music. The Pilgrims, parks came over from Holland, - having lived there for ten or, fifteen years to ight of all tho Ioriou Dutch P&lnUnff. culpture, and arohUec-jur- e. They abandoned all those things, and settled In the wilderness, where there was little poxsl-bili- ty of cultivating the love of beauty and little power, too, of resisting the theological dogmas they had imbibed, which taught that human nature Won utterly depraved, and that mast the human race Were bound Tori' ofa fiery hell, Love of Beauty Those are the people from whom the leading thinkers end doers of America sprang; and it la natural-- 1 ly Inevitable that wej their descend-- l ante. Bhould lark the lovo of beautyl to nature and' jn art, and even to v music. We do lack it. The Pil- and the Purimna lacked it to! gtims nr extraordinary d Tree Where did they find their pleas-- ! uresT jn drink. They! drank hard at weddings, tAncrals, and all publlej festivals. We have that inheritance, hut can we not v and overcome It? .Can WB not rrow tjp into a Jove oi tteauty in nature In ort? Can we not eultivato oureeeean-- ithe doUarht In .munlc ln in pInyInK v ar not hopee inetnfmenti? t , l,y-ho- ho . joy-kilii- Joy-klill- g, ol J weli-to-d- God-give- J - de through them throughout all their generations to the end of time. Hi sons will always be subject to him In this, eternal union, but each one of themfamily in. turn will rule In Me, over a numerous hoa of hie posterity, who will Join In harmony with his counsel and minhurW istry, an they Increase into dreds, and thousands and mil lions. , Eternal Increase . More glorious still are the privileges of celestial parents, As they continue on In the way of perfeo-- 1 tlon after tho resurrection, until a ful ness is reached, they become like our Eternal Mather, and lire hertt every blessing ho can give. T them then la given the power of eternal Increase, which Is M have tonnmerabie spirit children born tot them. Ia. process of time these celestial parents will prepare worlds whereon their spirit children may dwell" and pass through the e! stages of progression as their exalted parents haw done. In tho words of the lata Andcfton which wo quota; "In this celestial world, the , fittest have Survived. ;To them alone the power Is given To propagate their kind. Twaa wisely planned. The race of Gods must not de- teriorate. Thus everlasting Increase I k denied To those who havo not reached perfection's plane. ' Herein la wisdom alt- -i hl : (Continued From, Page Four.) youth. Enlightened In the school of heaved, and associating with the highest intelligences, their" knowledge expands until it comof prehends profonndrst truths heaven and tha wonders of eter- . . culti-vate- 1st ) hke Ijcart with Joy. The! children reverence theft perfected parents, and ever more shell render a loving obedience fto (hem. This one exalted family-(arme-d now after the n celestial pattern, ia a unit to tho perfect organisation of the whole celestial family. s , The Patriarchal OrxP'r The order of government .there t patriarchal a government o lathure, God the Father will pro-aiover all as Father and tauler of the, Universe, .and under hint Jesua Christ. Under the Savior Adam shall reign as lb grand patriarch of the human race, a prtnae and a priest forever, at tho head of his family of earth-bor- n chlte dren. Each father among thena who has earned a fullness of.ee- -. lestial glory will preside as patriarch over hie own children end over all tho famine born All their natural affections nity.and yrmpathle are intensified, and have become sublime and holy, Ttie Greater Bli'w.ing of Family " Ute , i To be saved to the celestial kingdom is a flonous reward, but even here will be some who coma far below the greatest No man or woman can blessing. attain to a fullnesal of perfection and exaltation alone, land those remain separate a id .single, having no place In a family organisation, are ministering angels and servants 'unto those worthy of the highest hgaven op dftfrroo of rlory within tirei ee- - j iPYttat hinirdom. Fop jrreatep la the blrsalnsr bo etowod upon ouch m havo quail fled to partnho of tho Joya of family Mfo throughout tho endloMi agoa of! tho futuroj Th lovo man and wife, such a that of tho falthful'eouplQ wo bavo w.mont1ohd. la now moro puro and precloua tjha ovepi beforo. Ho la now in evory wnso a king and prleot over hla dominion, and at hla old reign tho mother of hia ehllron M one of heaven's queens. on Heir 1 bfftuty powp of ' Hop purity, Rut as a rate words. ourpaooe br nwrrtly crown divine, ot rontlo glory justice, . That every child born spirit world ' Inio Has perfect parentage, equal chance Is given all to reach the highest goal, And win the race which runs up through the worlds." (Added Ipjn.) , "Ill ' Surh Ip the exaltation In store for thosb who obey the whole law of God, and recelv of tho blessings given to a temple of the Lord,. What person, having one glimpse of tho Joys reserved for the faro-- 1 lly In tha celestial kingdom, caa ever bo satisfied with a form at marriage which offers anything loss than: an eternal union by tho of the Priesthood f authority Would ho not liva a virtuous life, seek the guidance of t h e' I .o rd la selecting his partner for eternity, and be unltedto her In the oniy he perfect marriage covenant thatcom'might secure for himself, hi panion, and his children, a Plano in the Uttered olrrle of the peloo-ttfamily? WUuld he not them seek out thn records of the families of lit- - forefathers, and ol ordinances (Continued J Oa In Rag t Hafir bwa Eight " i |