Church Review/Vol. 3/No. 19

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THE CHURCH REVIEW. <br><br> Honor to Whom Honor is Due. <br> Ever since Leonidas with his Spartan band of 300 defended the pass at Thermopylae against the hosts of the invaders, there have been times in the history of countries and nations when a comparative few men manfully stood for the right against odds. <br> Arnold Winkelreid, Martin Luther, Washington, Wendell Phillips and Wm. Lloyd Garrison are notable examples of individual heroism. A few years ago when the infamous and now outlawed Louisiana Lottery Company conspired to fasten itself by a fifty year charter upon the new state of North Dakota, agreeing to pay the state a revenue of $75,000 a year, a small minority of the members of the lower house of the legislature stood together and defeated [the] necessary two thirds vote required to carry the measure over [to] the governor's vote. <br> The Constitutional Convention now in session in the city, was petitioned by 15,000 citizens, about half of whom were legal voters, and the other half will be voters under the constitution, to submit to the legal voters of the proposed state the question of the prohibition of the traffic in intoxicating liquors; these petitions were supplemented by a request signed by the heads of every church organization in Utah. No member upon the floor of the Convention dared stand up and say a word in the defense of the traffic, or to deny the terrible impeachment made against it by the friends of submission. Nor could a single valid reason be given by the members of the committee who signed the majority reports against submission or by any member of the Convention why the prayers of the petitioners should be denied; and yet, out of that body of 107 honorable men only 22 had the courage of their convictions and dared stand up and be counted in favor of the submission of the question. <br> That a majority of the committee as originally constituted were in favor of submission, that an unfair scheme was worked through the Convention by which the membership of this committee was increased by the addition of two members known to be opposed to submission, that even after this was done six of the eleven members voted for a favorable report, that at least two members of that committee after giving written assurances that they would support the submission of the question, without any satisfactory reason changed their minds and voted against it,-is a part of the history of this matter in the Convention. <br> But these noble twenty-two need have no regrets and will have no explanations to make to their constituents; time will demonstrate that they were right and the majority wrong. The people of Utah are an intelligent people; their demand to be allowed to vote upon the eternal principles of right and was clearly in accord with the principles upon which our government is founded; the demand was made with unselfish motives and in the interest of good government; and although justice has been denied them by the Constitutional Convention, this question will continue to be agitated and the saloon with all its pernicious influences shall become an outlaw in the fair new state of Utah. Too much honor cannot be accorded the twenty-two members of the Convention, who in the face of much opposition in spite of all the influences brought to bear upon them, stood up like men for the rights of the people. GEO. F. GOODWIN. <br> Salt Lake City April 30th 1895. <br><br> More than You Expect. <br> We have a rather unusual request to make. We don't ask you to pay us one visit. We ask you to pay us two. Come at first for the purpose of seeing our men's, boys' and children's clothing. If you don't buy it won't be because you don't like them; if you do, come again and tell us how you do like them. <br> We feel confident your first impression will be that you made an exceedingly level-headed purchase, and your second- well, to cut it short, your first will be confirmed rather than removed. <br> ONE PRICE. <br> J. P. GARDNER, <br> 136-138 Main Street. <br><br>