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Show I GRANT AND CLAWSON TALK aaafl ' 1 jL At Conference Sunday Afternoon. Tern-I Tern-I P perance the Subject of Heber J. I . Grant's Discourse. Many I Timely Truths Told B H Apostle Heber J. Grant. H j Extracts or addressof Heber J. Grant ( at Tabernacle Sunday afternoon. ' It Is always a pleasure to me to meet H with the Latter-day Saints and the jB One desire of my heart in standing be- jB fore the people here today Is that I H may say something for their benefit. M I have recently traveled throughout M" i the stakes of Clon and have been jB preaching In favor of what Is known jY as local option. We heard here from H President Llnford of the Brlgham VI Young college the reasons why they H arc going to establish a night school, H; and one of them Is to counter-act the H' Influcnco ol the saloons In your midst. I I believe that there should he. no sri. H , loons In the midst of the Latter day Yj Saints and that when a man has the jl j voting power and does not stamp out H the saloons that he will be held re- H sponsible before our heavenly father I, for falling to do his duty Hh If there Is anything that Is tiresome H(l to an audience it is to listen to read- H'j hig. H never matters how poorly one H;' may speak It is more interesting to an audience than for the speaker to H rca from the stand, but, nevertheless, H i where a better lesson can be taught Hj by reading than by speaking, I believe H' It 's the duty of the speaker to read. H1 For Instance, I am about to read on a Hj subject which teaches more philosophy H tan I would be able to teach by word H or mouth and 1 shall take this occa- slon of reading to you considerable jYafl thlstfernoon: H I I 'cad from the preface of leaves from the diary of an old lawyer. "My experience at the bar has satis-fled satis-fled me that intemperance Is the direct cause of nearly all the crime that Is committed in our country. I have been at the bar over thirty years, have been engaged in over four thousand thous-and criminal cases, and on maturo reflection re-flection I am satisfied that over three thousand of those cases have originated origi-nated from drunkenness alone, and I believe that a great proportion of the remainder could be traced cither directly di-rectly or Indirectly to this great source of crime. In sixty-three cases of homicide forty-nine have been caused by the maddening influence of strong drink." Think of It, my brethren and sisters, forty-nine murders out of sixty-three cases, were caused by strong drink. "I have seen upon the council table of our court room the skull of an aged father who was killed by a drunken son. My brother and myself sat by his side as his council, and I never shall forget the look of that son when the ghastly evidence of his guilt was laid on the stand before him. That silent yet eloquent witness. It was but an arch of bone, and was handled carelessly by the Jury and by council In their investigation, yet It had once been covered by a father's gray hairs, beneath It had throbbed a brain full of pride and affection for the son who was now on his trial for murder, and as it passed from hand to hand the fearful expression on the face ol the accused plainly toVl the terrible feel-Ing feel-Ing of remorse that filled his soul, It was a wicked and most unnatural crime, and begot feelings of loathing and horror In tho breasts of all who witnessed the trial. Yet it was not in reality the son who had committed the crime, but the demon that lurks In every cup of strong drink. And that cup had been filled and placed to tho lips of that son by the hand of a most respectable member of society, a man who had a license from that very court to sell that which maddened mad-dened the brain and prompted the hand to murder. He said a license from that respectable court to sell liquor. Yes, from the very court that was sitting in judgment on the act which was but the natural consequence of the license. "I saw upon the table the skull or young 15 , who was killed by his most Intimate friend in a drunken brawl at nartstown, and the respectable respect-able proprietor at whose hotel the murder was perpetrated, and who sold the maddening spirit that prompted the deed, was witness to the trial. He said he had a license from that respectable court to sell liquor; yes, from tho very court then sitting in Judgmcntonthatact, which was out the natural sequence of the license It had sold and granted "I have seen upon the table the skull of a little child, with the evidence evi-dence upon It of a murderous blow Inflicted In-flicted by the hand of a drunken mother. Yet it was not the mother who had committed the most unnatural unnat-ural crime. All our knowledge of the promptings of the human heart deny the charge. Who that remembers his own mother and her maternal love could believe It? No, a demonical spirit had violated tho sanotuary of the mother's heart and cast out the tender, loving tnnant that once resided re-sided there, and that was the spirit of stiong drink, sold to the woman by a man Mho held a licence to sell under the seal and sanction of that very court. "I have seen upon that table the blood-stained skull of a wife, cleft from top to base hv an axe In the hand of a brutal, drunken husband, Continued on Page 0 Grant and Claw- j son Talk. Continued From Page 2 who-ame home from a neighboring llccnu.-il beer-shop, reeling, drunken and maddened by drink there sold bv a m'"a respectable dealer, by a man who had a legal right to sell that polion whose effects arc more terrible than (he p'agtics'conflned within the fabled box of Pandora, and under whose baneful lLlIuence "'The hand that should shield the wife from III, In drunken wrath is rained to kill.' "1 once defended a man for killing his own brother, by whom In a tit of dtutiken frenzy, he had been attacked with a dangerous weapon, thereby compelling him, In his own defense, lo strike a blow that had taken his brother's life. He was tried for murder mur-der and In his defense I called the landlord to prove that the murdered brother was mad from the effects of the ilquor he had received at the witness's wit-ness's bar. He so testified, yet seemed conscious ot no wrong. Why should he? He had a license from the court, and why should that brother's blood cry to heaven for vengeance against him? Oh no, he was a respectable citizen, possessing a good moral character, char-acter, for the law grants licenses to none other. He had a legal rlKht to present the maddening cup to his fellow's fel-low's lips, and no one should complain of him. He had acted In accordance with the law, and did not one of England's Eng-land's greatest and best of men say that the law was that science whose voice was the harmony of the world, and whose seat was the bosom of God?" Apostle Rudger Clawson. Extracts of address delivered by Apostle Apos-tle Rudgcr Clawson Sunday afternoon after-noon In the Logan tabernacle. I feel to commend tho president of the stake In beginning our meetings promptly. I think we have made a very SDlendld record In this particular at all of the meetings of tho conference. confer-ence. They have generally been 'begun 'be-gun on time. I think that Is a good example for the presidency throughout through-out the stake to follow. It lsvery desirous de-sirous that the bishops of the wards and other presiding otllcers should follow this ezampte; that they should be prompt and punctual in these .things. 1 I am reminded of a little Incident i which occurred, or is said to have occurred, oc-curred, somctlilug like this: "There was a married woman named Mary who died, and upon her tombstone were inscribed tho words, 'I am waiting wait-ing for John.' About twenty years later John died, and these words appeared ap-peared on his tombstone, 'I am here.' A wag came along and saw the inscription inscrip-tion on the stone, and he took out his pencil and wrote under It, 'Yes, but late as usual." John wasn't very punctual, punc-tual, that was the trouble. But the principle of punctuality ought to be admired very much. I believe that many good results How from it. A very prominent writer makes use i of language something like this: "The only responsibility that we cannot evade is the one that no think the least ofi" That Is our personal Intiu-ence, Intiu-ence, that which we send out. When we appear before the public seeking to make an impression it is woefully small, but the unconscious Influence the silent, settled radiation of personality person-ality that goes out from every Individual Indivi-dual is tremendous. And then he goes on to say that the Influence exerted to every Individual in the world allects every other Individual. It cannot bo perceptible to tlieee but nevertheless It Is the case. And then he further remarks that the great forces of nature na-ture such as heat, electricity, gravitation, gravita-tion, possibly wo might add tho wind, for in the wild there tu great fmc.e and power; Pint these ut.-.u foices ,ite silent aud Invisible, and that the wonders won-ders of theM rii ;irMiol lo te compared to the mojt'itj' and the .gory of tin-unseen tin-unseen As he states this as u scientific scien-tific tiutlf, that wc do not r'ecehe from the great things, seen enough Infill :mr) heat to lualntaltrthc animal hum p ant life upjn the can h, but l lie ii, 1 1 in the heavens, many of which urt- invisible to the eye are millions uud millions of m lei distant and supply sup-ply one-half the llht m'l hen tint Is needed upon the earth. That is a most remarkable statement. It Is a lriilhth.it 1 never dreancd cf before. Take the prophet Joseph Smith, by the wonderful Influenc of his pernor,-aiiiv pernor,-aiiiv tie has left an Impress upon the nineteenth ceuturf. ' hi- i itlu-nce of his life upon the Latter-day S.imts today to-day is far-reaching Indeed. Scarcely a meeting Is held, scaioely a conference of the people convenes in t le ciiiitth, general or local, nut what the name cf Joseph Smith, the prophr, Is mentioned men-tioned In some connection. Even In this great conference here wh have been singing atout him when wp say "Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah," etc. And the same may be said of that Intrepid leader and great pioneer, lirlgham Young. The name of Hrlgham i'ounir among, the Latter-day Saints, as well rs among the nations of the earth, Is III e a magnet, It draws and attracts the attention of the people. Although he has passed awayyet the Influence of his life, by the personillty;of his char-acter, char-acter, by that subtle, silent, radiation of the personality that came from him he seems to be in lour midst all tt.e time, and the same miy be said of all great and good men. When they die we do not lose them. We have the records of their lives and we have their works to study and contemplate. You cannot go Into.any city or town In this great Intermountaln state anywhere any-where without being Iremlnded constantly con-stantly of Brigham Young. He has left his mark here; ho has left the impress im-press of his character here which stamps him as one of. the greatest colonizers col-onizers that ever lived. He seemed to have a wonderful insight into the future. Ho seemed to know where to locate, a city or a town, and then after lie had located it he seem?d to know Just what was going to happen. You might call it intuition, or Inspiration, or revelation, and those things combined com-bined in that man proved that he was a true prophet of Ood. |