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Show guess-ho was right. It took Seward to enunciate 'the higher law;' and the Issue was-Joined. : We have 'this' to start with,' b.oweVer,.'and we must not lose sight of it? The national' life de pended upon the - perpetuity of the GoJ-glven institution of slavery.. Only ruin financial, moral, social stared this nation lu the face If slavery went down. The statement will bear cIobo scrutiny. "My grandfather was born-In -1810 and died In 187G. He lived In slavery tunes, ilu knew wiiat slavery was. He lived In northern New York, yet the institution allected his environment. environ-ment. The civilization of his day had to reckon with that Institution. Hd got up in the morning, knowing full well that whatever else might perish, slavery would not It was basic. Perhaps Per-haps his last thought at night was burdened bur-dened with the Imperishability of America's sovereign Institution. "Ills tnin was born fnl852. He lived his life In a new world. Before ho was a lad of fifteen, slavery was gone. He lived part of his life In the momentous mo-mentous days of reconstruction. He died in 1901. Perhaps at times he recalled re-called the fact that the readjustment was a tryln process. However, 1 recall re-call no word. I know ho did not have to S-dJuBt bis life U 'the fundamental Institution.' Slavery had left no hideous hid-eous Impressions upon him. The instl- doexn't approach, namely: that prohibition pro-hibition doesn't prohibit; that It makes hypocrites; that it causes more liquor to be consumed (which, of course, the liquor men do not want If they can possibly help It). i "1 am applying our principle to this one institution because it is Just at present before the eyes of all. Our ago says the saloon is basic and fundamental fun-damental to our civilization; that it has always boon a part of our Amerl-, can life and will always be. "One thing is sure: the cost of ridding rid-ding Amorica of the saloon will be tremendous staggering. It will bo Just as staggering as the cost of crushing crush-ing that other basic and fundamental Institutions of the early nineteenth century. cen-tury. If this generation means to de-1 stroy the saloon It will have to pay the appalling price. It Is precisely at this point that men of little faith falter. fal-ter. . A moral question involving flnan- clalphascs need, they maintain, to be closely studied. "But, suppose we are big enough to pay the staggering price what then? This, Just" as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow: Our children will see a few years of the readjusting readjust-ing process. They may have to pay a small part of the cost of this I am not positive, but this I know their children will read about the saloon as you and I today read about hu- PHILOSOPHY OF REFORM THE TOPIC AT THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH LAST EVENING. Rev. Elderkln Outlines Great Need of Progresirve Measures of Reform and Enthuslawn of Faith. A good 9lzl congregation at the Congregational church last night beard the argument of Rev. Elderkln upon "The Philosophy of Reform." Alter an introduction dealing with the trito fact that too often the personality of the reformer is obnoxious. Mr. Elderkln Elder-kln went on to outline the gTeat need In progressive measures of reform. This he took to bo enthusiasm of faith. Ho insisted that we need most of all to know what we want to do. The concluding paragraphs of the sermon ser-mon follow: "Wo are philosophers beeanso we can't help it. America, for the past five or six years, has been swayed by mighty moral Interests. "Only a dead man can keep from reflecting upon the meaning of Ihls tun moil and confusion. What are wo trying try-ing to. do? Why aro we discussing Questions which our fathers were content con-tent to let alone? Why this battle with Intrenched Injustice and evil? What alls the American -pePl0 that they are attacking the saloon (the bulwark of our liberties) the use of oplnni, gambling in all Its accepted and historic forms; bribery, corruption, both municipal and national? Aro these not of ancient standing? Have Ihey not always been will they( not always be? "Such questions bring one face to .face with the problem of attack upon any intrenched institution. The most common argument against progressive reforms Is the one whoso forehead Is streaked "with gray: "This institution has always been and will always bo, In spite of the efforts of puny man.' That is the argument of gloomy despair, des-pair, the Joy of the vice-monger, the sunshine In a pessimistic parlor. I never heard It repeated with such en air of finality anywhere else as hero In Ogden. We seem to think that every ev-ery thing which has been must always ,be. A clever study of history would nhow that hundreds of institutions once : deemed eternal have been sloughed ; off by society. Today, from the view- j point of experience, wo Bhould never know of their existence. History reviews re-views the story for us; "To make my argument clear, I want to take out of history one of the institutions in-stitutions which just fifty years ago tonight the bulk of our citizenship insisted in-sisted was eternal because basic and fundamental, That Institution was slavery. Jeffereon Davis protested lhat slavery had biblical sanction, I man slavery. "One Sunday this summer I heard Newell Dwlght Hlllls of Brooklyn tell 2,000 London men that he never saw a saloon until he was twenty-one nor a drunken weium until he was twenty-, eight. The next Saturday Sylvester Hprne repeated that story to 20,000 people on Hyde Park green and they hooted and laughed at It It was an ' Impossible thing, They had seen the public house and besotted women all their lives and could not even imagine the landscape stripped of them. ' "The saloon can be abolished today and In forty years the Atlantic Monthly will be publishing articles explaining to a caloonlcss age what the saloon of 1900 was like, what It did 3C5 days In the year, and why It was put out of commission. Readjustment is pos-i slble In so short a time. , "The Journal says, 'Save the boys and girls; then these evils will die natural deaths.' Very fine. But the Journal must know that the saloon is tb live not only by supplying a demand but by creating that very demand, and in true philanthropic fashion, stands ready to supply. If the Institution did not exist, there would be no' necessity I of ' manufacturing a demand fur Itr, products. O. Henry's story of the fellow fel-low who scattered cockle buirs In a shoeless purl cf Central America, so as to dispose of , bis stock, of shoes. Is not without point. Keep en putting liquor In the punch for high school functions. Ultimately It pays. , " "Upon this point I'inslst. The very presence of the saloon for which no) one In Utah, that I know of. has said; a decent word i3 a silent' testimony: to the truth that children as yet un-. born must maintain the institution fifty or sixty years from now. As long as the institution exists, you may bo sure It will -see to the creating of the demand which it stands ready to supply. sup-ply. "It Is true Of this one Institution; it Is true of all. The question of worth is primary." I tutlon was Indeed gone. Now, my grandfather's grandson is living In Ogden. Og-den. In his reading he stumbles across a good, deal about a horrible curse which once rested upon the land. But he never saw- a slave. He sees other kinds of slavery, of course, but the slave of thc flftles Is no part of his life. "From this I draw the conclusion lhat It Is fully within reason, to expect ex-pect that the third generation can live in almost total. Ignorance, or an institution which seemed absolutoly necessary to the first generation. In the. time of Cicero there were eleven a Ices. Today ' we reckon with .only three. Back in Cicero's time, no doubt many said, 'Wo' have always' had eleven vices and we always shall.' "But, one by one, eight were sont to the rubbish heap. Today we . know them mostly as matter's of .history,, . "N.o' inan may speak. to mo of .necessary .nec-essary evils. There are no such things for pne who believes In the ultimate triumph of man's higher and better nature. "There 16 no institution in existence todav which our grandsons can not got along without. That is true pf the church as well as of the saloon. Of course, the question of worth is pit-mary. pit-mary. Each age ouht to determine vhat Institutions are worth handing over to the succeeding age, "Tho .saloon.thc gambling house, the broth? 1 the three great evils of our day are be!ng adjudged as to their vorth. la fact, we know their woith. Even the purchasable Salt Lake 'Republican 'Re-publican grants that the saloon at best is a hideous institution. The xthlug .for our age to decide ls- thlsi Can we conscientiously hand over to our sous an Institution which' every one confesses is of no worth to the com-' munlty. . If the good saloon had merits, you may be sure the case would .be valiantly fought out along, that line. But because, it vhasn't, the editorials in the Republican follow the ancient and honorable line of approach which |