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Show THE CHURCH REVIEW. <br><br> The Church Review. <br> Published weekly, in the interest of Christian work in Salt Lake City, and with the cooperation of the Methodist Episcopal, Congregational, Presbyterian, Baptist and Christian denominations, and the Y.M.C.A., W.C.T.U. and Rescue Mission societies. <br> Subscription price - - - $1 per year <br> Entered at the Salt Lake City post office as second-class matter. <br> O. S. BOWMAN. - Editor and Publisher. Office, No. 78 East Third South. <br><br> "MAN'S inhumanity to man makes countless millions mourn," and man's indifference to the perils which surround his fellow-men makes other countless millions mourn. In no form of human misery is the latter truth more profoundly illustrated than that of intemperance, the greatest evil that afflicts mankind. The curse is everywhere. It touches and blights, to a greater or less degree, every interest-financial, social, educational, moral, religious. Every individual, every [family], every society, pay tribute to this devouring Moloch. Not a family but some of its members have been or will be sacrificed upon its altar. It is sapping the vitality of the national life, politically, morally, financially. The nations that illumined the ages of the past with their splendid achievements all fell a prey to intemperance and its kindred vices. The nations of the present are all drifting the same way: indeed most of them would have already fallen but for the influences of Christianity. But the people will not wake out of their lethargy and indifference. Nothing will arouse them. Two weeks ago Mrs. Telford, one of the best speakers among the women of the west upon the temperance question, was in this city and delivered a number of lectures. On a given occasion she was to give a special address, that dealt largely with the financial phases of the question, to men; but of the handful who heard it less than one fourth were men. They had no interest in the question, knew nothing of its bearing upon their own finances, and did not care to learn. A larger number of women attended these lectures, but their number was pitiably small, when the great effects of intemperance upon the womanhood of the land is considered. Repeated attempts have been made to arouse an interest and organize Prohibition leagues throughout the territory, but little progress has been made. There is a city and territorial organization of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, but not one woman in a hundred, even in the churches who should give of their time and their influence to the accomplishment of the noble ends sought by that organization, know anything of its work. There must be an end of this indifference if anything is to be done. The people must awake from their slumbers. They must realize that under the Christian dispensation every man is his brother's keeper, and under a republican form of government, every man is his brother's guardian. And above all else Christian people must be made to realize that they owe it to themselves, to their children, to their country and their God to do everything in their power to overthrow this curse of curses, the saloon power. <br><br> THIRTY years ago the great war of the rebellion ended with the fall of Richmond, and, metaphorically speaking, the shackles were struck from four millions of slaves. But the fall of Richmond and the death knell of the Confederacy did not eliminate from the southern mind the belief, generations old, that the negro-the innocent cause of the stupendous national tragedy just closed-was of an infinitely lower order of human beings, if indeed human, and therefore should be subject to him in all things. And the constitutional amendment which placed the negro upon the level, as a citizen under the law, that his former master occupied, planted a greater sting in the southern heart than the destruction of the cherished dream of a southern Confederacy had done. On that day the white men resolved to retain the mastery over the negro in all things, and they have pursued that resolve with a persistence worthy a better cause, and too often with a relentless cruelty that spared not life nor any human right-a cruelty that would be disgraceful even in savagery. In ages to come the story of the persecutions to which the negro has been subjected will from the blackest chapter in our nation's history. First, local class legislation, and personal violence were the favorite means employed to accomplish the nefarious end, but, as the years go on and the negroes become a greater menace, because of their rapidly increasing numbers, to the political ascendancy of their white brethren, (?) the laws enacted for their subjection become more sweeping in their scope and more flagrant in their violation of the constitutional rights of the black citizen. In South Carolina there is now in session a convention for the revision of the state constitution. In the new constitution there will be property and educational qualifications that will disfranchise almost the entire negro population. With the education qualifications necessary, and the administration of the educational affairs in the lands of the white men, the political rights of the negroes in that state are at an end, and their future degradation under such a system is frightful to contemplate. In time it will result in a condition of serfdom unsurpassed in any age and worse than slavery. From every pulpit and from every <br><br> |
