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Show Register today last day. r - - BISHOP F. S. SPALDING OF SALT LAKE CITY REPLIES TO HIS CRITICS. Some weeks ago at the Annual Convocation Con-vocation of the Enlscopal church, for the district of Utah, held at Salt Lake City, Bishop Spalding in an address spoke very plainly upon the subject of piohlbltlon. He wns quite sevorely crlticlsod by some of his "friends" in Salt Lake, and although he had been called to Colorada, he returned to deliver de-liver an address in the Salt 1-ake Tab-ornacje Tab-ornacje on last Sunday We aro sorrv i wo cannot give - s address In full. It was the most complote presentation ot the question of prohibition yet attempted at-tempted In this campaign Wo give a short synopsis of his address- MuEt be Legislated Out. "Tho liquor question ennnot be ronched by moral appeals; but l legislation. leg-islation. The true friends of temperance temper-ance must work by legal powers against this impersonal liquor business, busi-ness, which is a creature of the law. A friend of mine says that liquor legislation leg-islation Is cant legislation. What is cant legislation' See tho billboards with -words printed in blue. I supposed sup-posed that blue stood for temperance. The arguments of the anti-prohlbltlon-Ists are extreme IllustraLons of canL Those men who urgo upon mo their argument that we should have a constitutional con-stitutional amendment covering tue liquor question are the very ones that would say, If they got what they want, "whv didn't you give us this thing graduauy?" "Our friends say prohibition will result re-sult in "blind tigers," "blind pigs" and so forth. I ask who is going to run these institutions? The liquor Interests Inter-ests are saying these things so I conclude con-clude they will be the ones who will run these Illegal Institutions. Environments Make Character. "I am confronted with the argument, "You can't make men good by law." These men talk like laws wore something some-thing dropped down out of the sky. Laws are stepping stones to ..bertyl I waH .talking to Jacob Rlis some years ago. I said to Win. "Mi RIIs. when 5-ou wiot-ohft book entitled ,'How the Other .Half, vLlves,' you said thai on- vlronment counts ninety per cent to-' ward, the character of man. Do you believe ft now'''' Ho suld. No, Bishop Spalding, I have become, w Iser. I do not believe that now I bollovo that environment, constitutes ninety-nine per cent of 'tho Influence which go to make up the character of man.' Pjease Kj(l the Dog., '"Do you sav to your child, 'I want you to cultivate, a power of resistance in your body so strong that you can drink filthy water and not contract typhoid fever? No You take every precaution. If there Is any doubt you boil the water. "Sam Jones expressed It right when he told the anecdote of the rabbit and the dog A rabbit was making a bravo effort to got away from a dog A man commended him for his effort and told him If ho would keep up the race he would win his life. The rabbit said, I thank you, friend, for vour kind advice ad-vice and encouragement, but for honven's sake, please shoot the dog,' That's whnt we want to do on the 27th of June. A City Under Saloon Rule. "A drunken man thinks he Is a nlll-lionairo, nlll-lionairo, but when he wakes up the next morning he has a headache and rcalios that he Is poorer in purse and in spirlL So It is with a city A city under tho Influence of saloon elements thinks It Is prosperous when it Is noL Let mo speak of the personal rights of IndMduals under tho law If a city has no law are the people free? No But when law Is In force they become free Accrtaln professor was lecturing lo a class of which I was a member He said: 'If you take certain drugs, certain parts of your boriv will uo nf-fected. nf-fected. If you take strychnine It affects af-fects the heart; If vou take alcohol it affects your brain. If any of you young men have brains and want lo try it, do so I never have.' Wo hear a great deal of the brilliancy of after dinner speeches. Wo hnvc been told that when men are under the influence of wine they make tholr wittiest and beat speeches I have listened to some of these and from the standpoint of a sober man I say that tho only renson these speeches are regarded as witty Is the fact that the audlenco is so under un-der the Influence of liquor that they don't know whnt wit and humor is." Statistics from Kansas. Bishop Spalding presensted tho following fol-lowing statistics from Kansas- "According to the state board of control. con-trol. 27 counties of Kansas had no inmates in-mates in poor houses during the whole of last year (ip07) ; So counties had no Insane; 5-1 tountles had no feebleminded feeble-minded Inmates, 9G counties had no Inebriate inmates; 97 counties had no children Inmates The total population popula-tion January 1, lflOS, In aw county poor farms of Kansas was 510 males and 2H9 females. There are 105 counties In the state, with a population of 1.G5G.799. ' Last year (1907) 54 counties in our state sent no prisoners to tho penitentiary, peniten-tiary, and 22 other counties sent hut one prisoner oach Nearly all the prisoners pris-oners sent to our penitentiary come from border counties whore liquoij Is forced in upon us fVom other states apd where gur law (s o home extent violated. Tji6 actual number of resb dent Kansaiv? riow In our penitentiary . In 199; 281 confined there did not gain a resldonce In Kansas," A Letter from Kansas. Here tho bishop read the following letter from the Right , Rev Prank Mlllsnaughc bishop 6r 'tho "diocese of the State of Kansas: ' "Those statements (the saloons mon'sj a.re absolutely false I have had experience in Nebraska, high license, li-cense, Minnesota, high license, or patrol pa-trol svstem, anc" Kansas prohibition The Inst surpasses nil tho others. I have gono slxmonths without seeing a drunken man on tho streets. Our young men aro cleaner and bettor, ns it Is not easy to get Jlquor, Joint koop-ors koop-ors go to prison now. ' It Is splendid, and is nonr perfoct as nnv state can get In this rognrd and growing bettor evor day Wo have no peoplo on our poor farms, and tho fnrms aro hardiy needed. I would almost go on the stump. If there was any danger of resubmission, re-submission, but thoro Is not." Work Ahead of Uo. Continuing his address tho speaker snld: "If any one here thinks that if bo casts his vote for prohibition on the 27th of June ho has done his duty, he Is mistaken. It has taken Kansas thirty years to get the position she now occupies It will take n long series of legislative enactments to mnke a law that will answer the purpose An argument that has been used against prohibition is that 'the present liquor law had sixty amendments. My friends, before you get a law thnt will answer tho purnoao It mnv have to bo nmended more times than that. But let us take this law as a beginning and ultimately our city will be. Instead In-stead of a synonym for liquor and saloons, sa-loons, what we all of us want it to bo, a place of sobriety and business prosperity." |
