| Show i GUARD AGAINST THE LIQUOR lUST Rev W. W M. M Paden Delivers Temperance Sermon to Followers LOCAL OPTION ADVOCATED Harmful Effects of The Red Peril May Be Seen in inMany inMany inMany Many Homes Local option for Utah was Co NJ in a n. temperance sermon 11 n Rev v. v W. W M M. 1 Paden at tho time First Presbyterian ChUl church h last night The sermon was wason wason on m the tho r Liquor Lust and amI land had for its time the following lines JInes from James I I xv v The lust when It hath halh conI conceived conceived con con- sin and tho the sin wh when Mi I it Is full grown rown forth death Dr Paden said The Tho appetite for Intoxicants ma may maybo h bo 10 natural or 01 It may bo acquired el It doi much matter which hen When vi-r vi the time appetite appetito a n. craving it boats bats the time very ery ry devil as a tempter l' l Wh n h ii tho ho craving gains full flail control ilm h oman man does docs Its bidding like a n. slave A Vs As tin lim has Imams It First the man moan f's a mm drink then thon the time drink takes a drink then the drink takes time tho man Supposing that tho the appetite appetito is In Instinctive instinctive In- In even as instinctive o as sin it does not follow that one Is j Justified In waking It up or feeding It There may he be stuff In a man which will catch fire which owing owing- to his t abstinence ab ah- ne never feels the time attraction of or orthe the time flame A medical specialist stoutly stout stout- I ly iy maintains that no no man ever craves for tor alcohol who has not had hael a n previous pre pro I us experience of it H. At an any ra rate te tho the best bost pIot protection against alcoholism alcohol alcohol- ism and drunkenness Is abstinence In Indifference indifference In- In difference to the allurements of liquor is Js worth moro mor to the ordinary man h by l' byway wn way vay of or protection a against time the drink habit than all his supposed resources In matter of or self Seif V I i I Bcd 1 Keep Keel A Avay Th There re are aro doubtless those who can I give Ive tho time allurement free fleo course courso In their thell lives anti and yet ct be able to J keep keel eo their self The rime ordinary run of ot us havo have no right to bank on having such good fortune It Is far better ietter for OJ us to J keep tho the red peril out of our fortress Moreover It Is be becoming becoming he- he coming moro more and amI moro evident that wo wc VE must do all we can to keep tho Limo red reel peril out of or mens men's reach rench and antI out of or their sight Means to do tho deeds make III ill deeds done Chances to drink have havo much to do elo with the thu making of or drunkards This Is especially true truo where the cupidity of the time seller Is as naturally Inflamed as the appetite or 01 craving of the time I buyer u er Tho rho temptation to soil sell at the risk o of making making- drunkards Is Js quite as dan dangerous elous as the temptation to drink whiskey at the tho rIsk ilsk of becoming a drunkard Society has hns therefore tried In varIous various var var- ious bus ways to keep the tho red peril within with with- in hounds bounds by law We Po have prohibited the sale ale oC or liquor to minors or 01 to habitual drunkards drunkard Wo Yo have prohibited ted its sale ale to an any one on Sundays and 1 holidays Thero ha have been beon butara ulo the te aloon J 1 ement jas has unless p policed li Hr watched disregarded those laws aws 1 Is has been so common that the 10 thought has gained credence that one no who Is a saloon keeper cannot be trusted rusted to live up UI to either tho the letter or of f tho the spirit of or even cven tho the mildest type or of f temperance legislation t Prohibit Sale Various forms of license have been tried tricel without greatly diminishing tho the evils vils of intemperance or tho time facilities accorded to tho the roil red tempter The Cl very cry best that can be 10 said Is that lint high bight license is better ocHer than low license and the he low lIcen license o Is better than free Creo rum It If f the sale of liquor like the sale of or ones no's own or another's person were pet to e wron wrong then any license under any circumstance would be wron wrong Wo Yo must prohibit Mrs Warrens Warren's or Belle London's Condon's business or profession not only because It Is IR a menace to society hut iut because It Is Ig In Itself cveT everywhere where and always immoral and debasing debasing- We 0 ma may prohibit the tho saloon aloon business busi husi- ness on tho the grounds of ot public expedience or 01 on tho time grounds that it Unduly unduly un un- duly Imperils public morality A community com corn has Imas the mural anti and should have havethe the he 11 gal li-gal al right to outlaw tho the saloon It should have tho Ito le legal al right and opportunity opportunity op op- op- op to put its veto on all applications applications applications for the privilege of oC selling liquor as a beverage In other words wo may have hae anti and should have in imi this S state stale an as soon as possible a well devised local option law For while there Is truth In the saying flaying that lint that lint lintlaw law is best which Is best administered It ham has has' been hoen shown hown by experience that no liquor law has got so 0 near to where people live e as that lint which begins with local option have o a JUht It to Know now It tests public opinion it makes public opinion it t cannot bo ho fairly op- op po cd by iy those who stand for government government govern govern- ment meat by ly tho e votes of ot free rec men As Cardinal Gibbons bus Imus recently said The right of oC tho the people to determine h by the operation of local option laws I whether saloons shall or 01 shall not bo ho closed In their respective c communities is In harmony with tho American principle of ot self soU Time The phenomenal progress now beIng being being be be- ing made towards checking the the ravages ravages ray ray- ages of the liquor trade and amid the liquor lust has been heen mado made along local option lines Jines When by ly winning In county after aCler county and city after city three- three fourths of or tho the citizens In a state slate have declared for fol no no license state Stale prohibition Is lit within easy reach It I Is said that tho the Georgia prohibition law In reality affected only 15 counties as of oC the time counties of or tho ho state stale had already gone Ih dry tiry h by ly local op op- op- op tion tiomi A judicial seeker after atter public opinion estimates that tenths seven-tenths of or orthe the voting population of or Texas will willbe willbe be e read ready to record Itself In favor of or state slate prohibition when the shall bo ho presented Of or tho the 4 3 counties In that state slate are aro entirely dry fi Fil 51 1 are partly clr dry anti and 45 permit permit per per- mit mil tho the sale of liquor Local ocal Option J Effective Local option has been equally effective ef ct- o In Tennessee anti and Kentucky All but live fi of or tho timo 90 95 counties of or Tennesee Ten- Ten nesce aro are now dry anti and only tin three cities Memphis Nashville and Chattanooga Chat Chat- a remain wet et And strangest I of ot all aU the saloon faloon has haq been expelled from 94 of or the jIme counties In n Ken Ken- tucky On time the basis of oC such a 3 showIng show- show Ing Dr DI declares that Kentucky Kentucky Ken iCen tucky like Tennessee fennessee will vote voto for forstate state sato prohibition whenever the people caro care to do rIo so The Tho World oriel almanac for or 1908 dc- dc clar clars s that in Montana Idaho Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming and Utah although the saloons run about a as the they thoy like thc thuy aro are beginning be he- ginning to realize that tho the sentiment Is changing The Mormon church is 11 0 i J fighting them thern If It this last sentence be true wo We can and anti ought to lo have prohibition b by wa way of oC local option and that thai soon In so man many counties and anel towns tons of this state that hat tho the matter matter matter mat mat- ter of ot state prohibition can bo be settled set set- tIed settled easily and settled rJ right ht within a vcr very few years cars I have havo hopes that what the tle World almanac says of the Mormon church Is true and a aery avel avery vel very ery real faith In tho time ultimate success sue suc cess of the local option movement hero anti and throughout hout our land |
