Show PAST THE DANGER DAGI n POL POINT T. T We c confidently believe o that Utah i is just juat now In its most serious crisis and wo we could well wish it were safely l pa past t the danger danser point This shall shaH bo be a perfectly friendly attempt to state what wo believe tobe to tobe tobe be facts and to draw from them the only conclusion lon possible for the peo- peo plo of ot the state It comes of ot tho the agitation for tor a prohibition pro pro- law Tho The case was som some eom- somewhat what different here in Utah than in inan an any other where effort has been mado rondo along temperance reform lines linea There Is long Ions prepared and definite a profound sentiment in favor of tem tem- in tile tho minds of or n a large majority ma ma- of ot our people Even in other communities the bulk bulle of civilized men and md women oppose oso intemperance Inthe in itt inthe the use of or liquors as a matter of ot course couro Mere Here the pretty prett nearl nearly solid body of ot tho Mormon establishment is la added on tho side s-Ide of sobriety an and against Indulgence in intoxicants Though in very man many cases it amounted to total abstinence all were cre not so o clear of or record in the matter In non Mormon circles the thc man who has not In all nil his life iCe tasted liquor of an any kind is rarely encountered He lie is extremely cornmon common com corn mon among tho the Mormons Utah has lias much more population than Montana and consumes halt half tho liquor and tot to to- to t bacco acco So there was a prepared definite de de- de- de finite foundation for the tho temperance formers 9 in the next place while Mormons b by no means concede superiority to toan an any other church there Is yet et a Intent latent lat Int- lat lat- ent cut desire to stand approved by them The Mormons occupy a place of ot peculiar pecullar pe pe- pe- pe culiar cullar isolation Advanced exponents of or other Christian churches still subscribe subscribe subscribe sub sub- scribe to tho the Helmick and the th uhf find the Clemenson doctrines slightly doctrines slightly paraphrased in the borrowing that borrowing that that m is tho the sum of ot all vii vil Mormons take an m equal share sharo in public improvements contribute con con- tributo tribute for tor charity labor In moral and educational present tho tito tangible tangi tangi- ble hlo expressions of ot bool books s and music and rand men and women quite comparable comparable able ablo with those of other othor churches |