Show 3 HH H 1 rI H I t T TEMPERANCE E M PER EK JL A NeE 3 DEPARTMENT D E PART M EN T 1 I CONDUCTED BY FY W C T u I Iy Ia y a EDITORIAL COMMITTEE j MISS FRIEDA DRESSEL MRS U WAY T J LL PROHIBITION PETITIONS While some of the people who drink a few of oC the people who aro are afraid and und all ail of or tho the people who Wiio sell It or are otherwise engaged enga ed In the tho traffic arc not signing petitions for prohibition on over voters of this county have havo signed such petitions and ant the city of ut has not been thoroughly can cnn canvassed either except a 11 few tew fe blocks bl ks In each precinct It is a long and laborious way war wa of tak ing lag a 11 straw stra vote vole on any an question So far 1 as OB known no one who circulated I ed Cd petitions In Ogden Ogdon received a l cent for tor their labor It was Vas purely purel a n vol volunteer 01 movement and und tho reception r of or those petitions by b the people was InspirIng The exclamation was often orten heard especially from tho the lips of worn wornon on Oil indeed d I 1 will sign it I 1 would sign it a hundred times If Ir that would bring prohibition If It any of oC Weber Wabel counties or senators fail to vote for the Cannon Cannou bill after this unmistakable expression from tho the people that Ulan man should l hereafter derive his Ills political support solely from tho the who refused to sign the petitions petition when given ghen a chance and such Bucha a support would fall fail to elect a 11 a man to any office These Those petitions were signed by pee peo p fJ pie plc who have deliberately made up liP their minds as to what they want There Is no excitement incident tope to pe signing so there thero IS i no reason rean why any of these people should later Inter Interchange change their minds The argument that the people aro are excited now but that public sentiment would not nOl keep up sufficient to en force the law Is a poor argument When 1 a law Is It Is not In the hands bands of o the people to t enforce i e We Ye pay pD taxes which go to hire biro officials to do that for us If I we have hae asked for Cor tho the law that shows that we want it and anti ought to bo be sufficient Plenty Plent of or laws are aro enacted and ln afterward sue suc enforced that were not ask asked asked ed cd for by b tho the people at all allAs allAs As Aa for or Illicit selling at drug stores etc there not be much more moro of that dono lono than there Is right now By the way war once in Ina a while some somo someone someone one complains that thaL ho he has never neer had a chance to sign a petition Then let him put his name at tho the head hend and start out to get other names EASY ENOUGH It will be easy enough for the liquor dealers den lorn to send a good sIzed petition to the legislature against prohibition bi tion They The have only to lay laJ said petition on the bar and anti ask every tramp hobo and drunkard to sign It The round ers ors will wili no doubt sign several times There Thore is a large fund also to draw on for expense money In trying to de tie feat cat legislation Some of this will no doubt go to the circulators of petitions against prohibition The friends of or prohibition are working without any such money Inducement It Is safe to guess that there will be a noticeable I lack laC nf or if names on the saloon petitions A FEEBLE EXCUSE A certain Salt Lake paper which ever eor inn It Jt advent into the newspaper world has been noted for tho fine moral l orul tone Woo of its editorials has hag lately undergone a 11 most astonishing change chanc This happens often of ton In the tho newspaper world when there Is a change of oC own ors ois or editors But no such change has occurred with this lila paper Among other othor commendable features was a series of oC articles on the tho subject of pro prohibition prohibItion prohibition contributed by well seli known men of or the tho th state The editorials too tco seemed to favor Cavor prohibition When a copy eop of the liquor mens Model lodel s Law which the liquor dealers of the United States hoped hopal to have haye adopted by many r let leg this fall tail was sent this his edl edi editor I tor or ho he remarked that tho honor den deal I ers era were about ten years oars too late In offering to their business That the tho people of the United States scorn now to want to be bo rid of tho the saloons He pointed out the flaws In their pro proposed proposed proposed posed After reading rendIng various moral sub Bub subjects and an noting tho the Intelligent and scholarly style stylo in which they thoy tho written as ns well wall as the tho courageous at attitude on all public questions one would naturally say Now ow there Is a anian man nian whose editorial opinions are not for fOI sale salo He can neither n Ither be bought Individually nor sold with his hla paper like a n piece picco of office furniture But within the tho last ten days this thin editor has bas attacked prohibition using I Ithe the same futile arguments that tho lie liquor men have always ys used And Anti he ho Is la advocating with only a 11 few fow ow changes which no saloon sa on would obey the same some la law that The Tho Model License league lea ue advocates And nil all lie apology for this sudden Budden change that this editor offers Is 18 the tho theone ono one that when his hla paper was WM running the aforementioned prohibition arti artl articles cbs cles cl s only about fifty people responded i I and he took that as os an Indication that I the people do not nol want wont prohibition As wo we remember only two or three wrote defending the tho saloons and they Iller were mostly connected connect with the bust busi business bustness ness should ho not also take that latter fact ao as an Indication if Jf he is going to rest tho the attitude of or orthe the people on their contributions to his paper for or against prohibition Aro Are there not no thousands of at good goodmen gooe goodmen men and women who want prohibition and are aro even oven able ablo to toll their neigh hOn bors in a crude way why wh they the want it it who do not fool foel themselves capable of writing ati an article on en tho ho subject and shall they bo ho debarred from peti petitioning petitioning now no Just because they thc aro are not masters of oC tho the pen and havo have never nevor studied rhetoric Was Vas there thero vory very much muc of or an nn effort on tho part of ot tho the paper to get got articles from tho the pen of oC tho the private Was rna It not Just possible that ordinary people foIL felt that It would look liko presumption to send In articles after the state officials and well known people of Utah had so ably expressed their belief In prohibition I And this whole holo affair enough to tomake tomake tomake make one look with sickening apprehension hension for fat the clay lar foot toot of every ever ap apparently good man who sits In an un ed cd editorial editorial chair Whon When Judas sold hi master for forI thirty pieces of or silver ho he him I i self the most mot infamous character In Inui InU ui U hl lOr because of o his act it has bus boon been considered from that day to this the most moat despicable thing ot 01 which a n man can be guilty to betray heLmy a to an nn untimely grave for a money moner consideration If the tho boast which certain liquor men mem havo huso made ia is true that for tot a consideration of or to tho the coin cam campaign fund und there Is in to be he no advanced temperance legislation In lu Utah this winter then we con can Just estimate that thirty pieces of silver was a much larger price than the lie men mon making this Oils I deal have received for tor each lach one ono ol or orI the men anti and boys women and girls girl I who will be e ruined and betrayed into the road that leads leall to an untimely grave before another session of the tho I legislature in another month we shall shaH know pretty Well vell If this his Is true or r not PREACHERS IN POLITICS The following was clipped from Crom tho the dearly beloved InterMountain lican before it turned turtle Why Vh not A preacher should be beas beas I as well equipped to advises people as Is anyone nn else Thoy rho Pho certainly have hao as much time as havo have lawyers law ers or doctors or merchants They The are areas areas areas as good citizens judged by their con conduct conduct duct They Tile certainly c have ha e as aM high ideals for earthly o life as other men have hae Why they thor petit I ical opinions Why thy the havo have views on public affairs Why they express themselves If It they want to The notion that a preacher Is some something something thing removed lint he ho belongs to a J sphere totally disassociated with tile the world and anti its affairs that he is not notto notto notto to care caro what goes on In lu his city or his state or his nation is not reason reasonable reasonable able The measure of his hiE manhood will be the measure of o his value as ag a apart apart part uart of tho the community And It if I ho hohas hohas hohas has nothing but heaven to talk talle about he will not help much In hi the lie place where his hearers largely live on onearth I earth We Te do tie not noL mean that a preacher should organize his church as a body hody for or against any an political measure mea any an measure proposed for civil govern gONn government mont ment and anel throw his church on one sido compelling his lila followers bo be because cause of their church relation to sus cus sustain ala tain him He should not require of them a church allegiance superior to lo every overy other It Ir he can not convince them If It he lie can not reach their reason ren on ho should not try tr to control them thorn Preachers should be as good citi citizens citizens I zens as a any r men nion They should be able to be citizens without being bigots to lead men and women to I right life without threatening them with the disfavor of the Almighty In governmental action They rhoy The should oo no big enough to use uso their abilities with without without without out denying baying the tho same liberty to other othor 1 preachers This does docs not mean priesthood con control control control the domination of any an church or the awful malediction of o the tho prel prelate prelate ate upon tho the communicant who see things Just as the tho prelate sees secs them It simply means that a n aman aman man should not cease to be a citizen clUen when ho lie gets geta Into Inlo the pulpit Im Ma Maybe be his position Is 15 a little difficult tat Lat it would surely be bo more lamentable lam if I ho he hould make the very tact fact ot or hla hia preparation to servo the world a n rea rca reason I 1 Eon son for getting out of or the world Worl 1 Of Ot course In their political activities lUes ittes they thoy will wili havo huyo to bo be e careful They rh c will have havo to be bo honest hone t They will aill 1 havo have to abandon tho the notion that tho the preacher prea her position gives lyea them any political power or that tho the sacred l 1 calling Implies political superiority But when these things are aro remembered as they thoy tho will be by b preachers who are aro worth a n cent cont either as its 11 preachers or as us citizens such mon should be very ver valuable members of oC the community THE SECRET 16 IS OUT The Tho laws lairs which prohibit gambling and the red light district are being violated nil all the thc time in Ogdon Ogden and Mr Ir Elderkin according to the tho news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers ought to bo ho ashamed of ot him himself himself self It may bo be that tho officers are not doing their duty but Mr lr ElderkIn ought to be bo more careful of what ho h says sa vs Either tho the mayor major or chief of police is to blame for tor this tills utter disregard of ot law but Mr Ir Elderkin preached about it and mention tho the Diet and he be ought to be bo in investigated estimated for such con conduct conduct conduct duct Anyone should know lie tho two subjects go together There are arc n a good ninny many man people who allow their heir children to roam tho the streets nt at night and If H this continues Mr 11 El Elderkin Elderkin derkin ought to be bo brought up before the lie juvenile court for preaching about gambling You cant expect to tl convert a city official from rain political ways anyhow an how C Cand and what Is ia religion coming comins to when a minister will undertake tho the Impossible ImpossIble sible No ono one minister can expect to do eto much an hov Look at Luthur and No Knox and anti Wesley and Roger Williams and a host of other othor reformers See what a fizzle they thoy the all nil made they tile the be a warning to any ani minister not notto notto to lo start things Lets Jets either try moral persuasion on tho the city officials o or Jail them but lots dont point out their mistakes to tho the public and especially to tho the young people When the tho young people read the lie newspapers thoy the tho may mar inn not know what soiled doves tho the to the lie city ell and accused of or living from froni a womans wom ns shameful earn earnings earnIngs earnIngs ings mean or realize that lint tho ho city Is 9 with these evils If this 1 minister did dil not tell them They Tile The might d think thin k it was all just a reporters hor her horrible yarn Jarn but now see what this minister has gone and done one Every Everyone Everyone one In iii town will know knowlt It lt is enough to cause every eer news newspaper newspaper paper man and city official in town to start singing Give us liS the re religion religion ligion Its good enough for me I O G T Good met mot Friday night Feb In Trade Labor hall and elected tho ho following officers C A Chief Templar Jas Drisdale Vice Templar Frank Smith Past Chief Templar Mrs S J Griffin S J W WRev Rev fbi He Frank Shaw Chaplain Grace Russell Financial Secretary Se John Way Vay ray Treasurer Edith Way Secretary Leslie Brooks Marshal Roy Rcy Hewes Guard Rev Rov Ro N S Elderkin Deputy Arrangements were made mado for a free freo reo entertainment on Friday night Feb February February to bo be given by hy the tile mom mem members hors hers to their friends A rousing good time may ma be had There Thoro will ill bo be a program published elsewhere in this paper Everybody Interested In our work come You will bo be welcome A supper will be served In dining room adjoining same hall from Crom to 8 S p m rn Glasmann chairman on en entertainment committee Mrs S Way Yay committee chairman on supper |