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Show be considered dispassionately and with sound judgment, and that thoso who had taken up the flght against the liquor traffic should be unswerving in their work to bring about the desired end, looking neither to the right nor to the left, but plodding on until the goal Is reached. He argued that liquor is an unwelcome and unsavory visitor in the home that will ultimately disrupt dis-rupt it and in the place of peace, happiness hap-piness and prosperity, will plant discord, dis-cord, misery and poverty. And, he argued that what was true of the home was also true of the municipality, the Btate and the nation, it is the father's duty to cast this visitor from the home, and in turn It becomes the duty of the city councils and the legislatures, legisla-tures, who arc but the fathers of the respective governmental households, to cast out the unwelcome visitor. The administration forces should heed the admonitions of the people, who constitute consti-tute the sovereign power of the land, and w4pe out this curse. He urged the people to be true to their convictions and to be fearless in their advocacy of those convictions, always standing for the right, regardless regard-less of what the results to fancied commercialism com-mercialism might be. He said that there 1b little question but that when the prohibition reform has gained a foothold and It has been enacted into law that there will be "blind tigers" and "blind pigs" where the toper may yet find the bottle and Indulge in the use of Its contents, but that in the long run many homes will be saved from destruction and many young men and young women will be directed Into better and more worthy paths of life. . He contended that the millions upon millions of dollars of money that are being used In the manufacture and Balo of liquor, If turned Into other channels, would accomplish five times greater results In the commercial woild and give employment to five times as many men and women, so that, even from the standpoint of the wages of the laboring man and the commercial interests of the country, prohibition would be beneficial. PROHIBITION WILL NOT : B0WN APOSTLE DAVID O. McKAY TALKS TO PACKED HOUSE. Opponents of Reform Need Not Flatter Themselves That Temperance Has Received Death Blow. The Ogden tabernacle was packed with people at the afternoon ' service yesterday, the feature being the discourse dis-course of Apostle David O- McKay on the prohibition question. Tho apostle occupied all the time of the service, except that which was devoted to tho rondition of an especially prepared musical program, which was as follows: fol-lows: 1. Organ solo, Sam F. Whittaker. 2. Selection by the Tabernacle choir. 3. Selection by the Tabernacle choir. '4. Solo, selected, Mrs. Fred G. Clark. .- . 5. Trio and chorus from Julian Edwards' Ed-wards' VLazarus," Mr. and Mrs. Jed Ballantyne, Miss Ruby Geddcs, and Tabernacle choir. Mr, McKay held hjs audience In rapt attention for one hour and thirty' minutes, min-utes, during which time he delivered a powerful and masterly address on the needs of prohibition now as never before. The speaker called attention to the fact that the state legislature had so far refused to pass a statewide prohibition bill, but that notwithstanding notwithstand-ing that fact the movement for prohibition pro-hibition would continue unabated until un-til the crying need of the reform In question shall have been accomplished. He said that, although the opponents of prohibition are now flattering themselves with the idea that the great reform movement has received its death blow at the hands of the state senate, they will find In two years from now, when the legislature meets again, that It will come up with greater strength and be advocated by men whose determination to succeed will be even stronger than It is today or has been during the past" few months. He" said that the movement was founded in truth and based upon wholesome reform, and that 'such a movement would not down; The speaker called attention to the fact that In all the reforms instituted insti-tuted In past ages, men of : indefatigable indefati-gable and unswerving energy and determination de-termination had to stand : "back of them, and that in almost .every instance in-stance they wero forced to. reap victory vic-tory in the very face of seemingly insurmountable in-surmountable obstacles and that this reform ,wss not the lesser .by any means of the many that had been fought for In the past. His prediction predic-tion was that prohibition , is sure to come to .Utah, and the nation; for that matter, as it is certain, that truth will triumph among the children of men. He was enthusiastic, logical and earnest in his enunciations and carried conviction to the large congregation. IMr. McKay stated that the prohibition prohi-bition question was one that should |