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Show PiiOiWIM IEETIIUMDAT "No ono oan Imagine tho diu'oronce in a prohibition town unless ho has lived there. The pecplo look so muoh. moro contontel and happy; tho homo moro comfortablo, (business moro prosperous and all the conditions condi-tions of lifo bo much better," said tho Rov. Frank G. Bralnord, speaking at the Tabernacle prohibition meeting Sunday on "Ten Years of Kansas Under Prohibition." "Tho best proof for any man Is porBonal observation as I spent years in Illinois In a town with ail the baneful lnlluonces of the saloon and then spent ten years In Kunsa3 without 1L and personally saw Kansas City, Kan , for rear of ruining business absolutely refuse to enforce tho prohibition law, nnd then saw It compelled to ontbro it by the governor of th'6 Stale and grow so prosperous "uudur prohibition that no man would dare to run for offlco In that city hop-lug hop-lug to bo elected unless he came ont flat-footbd in favor of tho onforcomont of tho law. I think I know something about prohibition, and I have always believed, and oxpect to the rest of my life, that tho Saloon Is a bad business1 busi-ness1 and sooner or lator will bo nbol-Ishcd nbol-Ishcd everywhere, and tho Booncr tho hotter for "any town." Facing tho audience, gathered at tho Tabernacle, Mr. Bralnerd, after raying thai he had nothing personal, fj ill, -iiiiiii... iiimiin.ii.ii.ii.iiil.lin whatever, against the saloon keeper or any one else in this fight, vet ho felt he hnd a right to his opinion, and in his opinion the saloon was always a had business, spoke in part as follows: fol-lows: "Thero are certain persons Interested Inter-ested In the saloon question whom It were well for us to notice; first, the saloon keeper and tho manufacturer, they want to keep tho saloons, for It Is a source of money to them, and besides they are In the business, and it has practically unfitted them for any other and naturally thoy do not know what to do If tho saloons aro closed. Tho3 are nearly all people of foreign birth or descent without the high Ideals of Anglo-Saxon civilization and they do not look at tho bnsinoss as wo do. They havo our sympathy though we know tho business Is bad for them and for us. Second, thero is the man who drinks, ho wants the saloon, sa-loon, ho hatos the appetite and wants to quit, but thore Is a terrible craving In his nature that overpowers his conscience and his will, and he hanga on to Uie saloon with a grip of death; it Is ruining him and his family but ho wants the saloon Then there is the business man, he wants tho saloon for some one has told him, he does not remember who, that If tho saloon business Is driven out It will kill business busi-ness and that settles the question for him business must not bo killed no matter what happens. I tell him that I have lived in Kansas ten years and know that prohibition dooB not kill business but greatly Improves It. I tell him that I lived in Kansas City, Kan., a city of a hundred thousand across the street from a wet city of three hundrod thousand, that I saw this city of one hundrod thousnnd closo the saloon, absolutely enforce the law. Increase Its population, build up Its Industries, make Its banks exceedingly ex-ceedingly prosperous and yot Mr. Business Man does not believe me Ho belloves his foars and the rumors that come, and will not believe all the facts wo glvo him, and never will Ull his own town goes dry and ho sees It for hlmselL So there are many who for various reasons wont the saloon, only till It goes and the wonderful change for prosperity and happiness 'comes to the city, will thoy bo converted con-verted to prohibition. For prohibition prohibi-tion will como and they will be converted con-verted and its great bonoflts will follow fol-low and tho sooner the batter for this city or any other city." Following the singing of tho Pickett quartette, which fumlshod tho music of tho hour. Apostle Ilobor J Grant of Salt Lako was Introduced and gave an address, In part us follows "Of till tho places, of all tho spots on tho njap which ought to bo white, and of nil tho States that ought to bo dry, ULih Is tho chief one, for hero is tho homo of tho Lattor-Day Saints, who, of nil tho peoplo In the world, stand for teraporancc, nnd who ought not anywhere to have a saloon. It Is a dlsgraco that the very heart of ZIon, tho home of tho Latter-Day niamuii 11 1 in ,11 1 11 1 ,1 Jiirtu ; .mm Saints, Is cursed with the open saloon, sa-loon, and no Latter-Day Saint is true to the church or to Utah, ho does not rise up and help vote out the saloon sa-loon on June 27. "I remember well when- there "was not a saloon In Salt Iake City, but now we have got used to thorn. " 'Vice Is a monster of so frightful mien, That to iho hated needs but to bo seen. Yet seen too oft familiar with its face. Wo first endure, then pity, thon embrace.' em-brace.' "And 60 in Utah wo have seen so much of the saloon that wo have cm-braced cm-braced IL It Is high time that we woko up to Its real danger and drovo It from our mldsL God gave us of Utah tho Word of Wisdom, as Ho nai' for our temporal salvation, and In It Ho forbado us to use Intoxicating: liquors. If we men and women of Utah had obeyed God, Utah today would bo the richest Statos this side of Illinois, from whose borders we were driven In tho daa of our persecution. perse-cution. It Is our own fault if we are not what God expected us to be. "They say it will kill business. I don't bellec It. I am a business man and I havo no proof that It has ever killed business, and I believe that it will help business In Utah Immensely. But what Is business' I take It that buelneBs is a fair exchange of commodities; com-modities; that In honest business a mui gives something ho has and geta something In exchange of real valuo and if. In LTtah, we should have to give a little of material prosperity to get rid of the saloons and In return get cloan cities, good government, the salvation of our boys and girls, the satisfaction of our " consciences, the welfare of our homos and the approval of our God, woulu It not bo good business? busi-ness? "They tell us It cannot be on-forced, on-forced, but Governor Glenn of North Carolina, when a sheriu told him that and said he could not Bond bootleggers bootleg-gers to tho rock pile, said In reply 'I'll send you to tho rock pllo If you do not enforce tho law,' and that sheriff enforced the law. If .. can be enforced In North Carolina it can bo in Utah." Tho meeting at the Tabernacle was followed a little later bv a big outdoor out-door mass meeting at tho City Hall park addressed by Frederlok Vlnlng Fisher, vlco chnirman of tho Dry committee. |