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Show : I m Beautiful Latter Day fJ Saints Hymn jA ' ill (Appropoa of Liberty.) 4 Know this, that ev'ry soul Is freo, $W To choose his Hfo and what he'll be; , w For this eternal truth Is given, j gfl That God will force no man to sjl heaven. ffl He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Km And bless with wisdom, love and j.fl light, , m In nameless ways be good and kind, ! 1 1 But never force the human mind. fl Freedom and reason make us men, Take these away, what are wo jjl tben? gfl Mere animals, and just as well II The beasts may think of heaven o II hell. 81 Ogden is dealing with western men II and western customers and will make jjl a questionable exchange If it throws l off the habiliments of a western city ,- i and puts on tho sackcloth and ashes' of the holier-than-thou communities of ill the east, where long, sanctimonious ffl faces ate mistaken for goodness, and H where a nickel looks larger than a S dollar does to the man of the west. :.l There are 350 to 500 men, nearly :H all heads of families, employed in the lH saloons of Ogden. Will closing of sa- , III loons and kicking these men into the fl street and opening tho homes directly ifl to the liquor tratlic either serve the jH purposes of temperance or do other H than multiply the misfortune of this i'S community? What Is to be gained by iH suddenly making paupers of the 300 to ;H 400 heads of families in Ogden? What S is to be gained In a moral way by H closing the saloons and at the same U H time voting that beer by the case and S beer by the gallon can be obtained by H any man, woman or child in Ogden H City? Those who claim that the H change would benefit this city morally H or financially, are as blind to the facts H that are staring them In the face as H were those spoken of In the Bible who - H had eyes and would not see. H If prohibition makes for prosperity, why was Kansas, in the panic period H beginning with 1803, the first state In H the Union to break under the financial H strain and becomo a bankrupt com M monwealth, while Utah, as a whole H with its open saloons, was one of the M last to feel the depression and passed M through the panic with fewer bank- M ruptcies than any other division of M this country? H The birth of thjs country Is In . H great part due to the first attempt M made on this continent to establish a H form of prohibition When the peo- - M pie of Boston were informed that they M were virtually to be prohibited the H use of tea by an exorbitant stamp tax, ' M they rebelled and organized what has H become historical as the Boston tea : M party. Nothing so stirred the fore- , M fathers of this country as an Infringe- M ment of that kind on their personal . M liberty, and, though Ihey had suffered M other indignities with forobearnnce, f M their indignation grew beyond control when the agents of King George ' mW sought to curtail their liberties in tho , M matter of eating and drinking Thoso sturdy, men of English, blood revolted, M 'and out of their defense of their man- hood came American Independence. |