Intemperance : an appeal to the youth of Zion : the folly of drunkenness and the nobility of a temperate life compared : figures that tell a fearful story : examples from real life

8 INTEMPERANCE.

was spent in one year. The great city of New York was
favored, in 1870, with 7,000 licensed drinking saloons, and
spent for intoxicating drinks the modest sum of $60,000,000,
having 35,000 persons engaged in the liquor traffic. At the
same time she had 475 churches and chapels, and 3,000 persons
engaged in preaching the various gospels and teaching the
public and private schools, at a cost of only $4,500,000 for
both religious and secular education.

It is estimated that there are "400,000 more persons
engaged in the liquor business in the United States than in
school teaching and preaching the various gospels;" that
said business is making, annually, "50,000 confirmed drunk-
ards;" that it is "sending to prisons 100,000 annually;"
that by it "200,000 children are annually reduced to want;"
that every year it "sends 150,000 persons to drunkards'
graves;" that it is costing this nation a yearly expenditure of
"$1,500,000,000," which might be spent for many better pur-
poses ; that it is converting millions upon millions of bushels
of grain, which God has given us for food for man and beast,
into beverages which inebriate, corrupt and destroy ; and that
it is the primal cause of a vast amount of the crime, poverty
and misery with which this nation is afflicted.

Again we ask, does it pay financially ? No ! verily no !

A BILLION AND A HALF OP CASH !

It is easy to speak the words, but who can conceive the large
amount expressed by those words? And who can count that
large number? Where is the boy who will live long enough
to do so?

Could a boy commence counting with his first breath, and
continue doing so, at the rate of one a second, 1 2 hours a
day, 365 days a year, for 95 years, he would then find that
his task was hardly finished.

Such a sum of money would be sufficient to gather 15,000,.
000 of Israel, at $100 each, to the present gathering places
of the Saints of Grod. And, be it remembered, this large
sum is simply the estimated expenditure of the United
States for intoxicants for one year.

Again, does it pay individually? Does it pay the nation?
Do the broken hearts, the blighted homes, the squalid pov-

EXCUSES FOR DRINKING. 9

erty, the untold misery, and the almost incredible amount of
crime committed in this "Christian land, where men oft kneel
and pray," bring any commensurate returns for such an
enormous outlay? Verily, no! It is a bad investment,
individually and collectively, socially and morally, financially
and politically, religiously and eternally.

WHY DO MEN DRINK?

Numerous are the reasons assigned, and excuses furnished.
We once saw an alphabetical list of reasons, and have forgot-
ten them in form, but remember some of their substance.
One drinks to warm him in cold weather, and another to cool
him in warm weather. One because he has a pain in the
head, another because he has a pain in the back ; and others
because they have pains elsewhere. One because the doctor
recommends it, another because he does not, and he believes
a little would do him good. One because he is married,
another because he is divorced. One because he is going on
a journey, another because he is just returning from one.
One because he is parting with his friend who is going to a
foreign clime, another because his friend is just returned
from abroad. One because he is filled with joy, another
because he has much sorrow. One because he likes to be
sociable with his friends, another because he has not a friend
in the world. One because he is successful and happy,
another because he is unsuccessful and miserable. One
because he is sick, another to prevent sickness. One because
his uncle died and left him a legacy, another because his aunt
died and didn't leave him one. And so on. Thus reasons
and excuses might be furnished at great length. But these
are easily disposed of, and are as nothing compared with the
reason, "because I love it!" For this will prompt a man to
barter property, self-respect, reputation and the authority
and favor of heaven to obtain gratification. And what is the
sequel ?

WHAT PROPERTIES HAVE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES?

They stimulate and use up nervous power, and, after their
action, leave the system less powerful than before.
Are they medicinal ?

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INTEMPERANCE:

AN

PPEAL TO THE YOUTH OF

THE FOLLY OF IIRUNKEXXKSS AND THE NOBILITY
OF A TEMPERATE LIFE COMPARED.

X THAT TELL A PEARPrL HTOR

EXAMPLES FROM REAL LIFE.

Instructor Oilic'o.

L.A.KIEl OIT-^T, TJTA.H-
1881.

INTEMPERANCE;

AN APPEAL TO THE YOUTH OF ZION.

THE FOLLY OF DRUNKENNESS AND THE NOBILITY OF A
TEMPERATE LIFE COMPARED.

DURING the past few years we have observed, with much
regret and apprehension, the gradual growth of the
pernicious habit of tippling.

Some of the male youths of our community are pouring
down their throats an "enemy which is stealing away their
brains," and thereby unfitting themselves for the labors it is
their privilege to perform in the great drama of the last days.
They are feeding, and, in some instances, creating an appe-
tite for intoxicants, which, unresisted, will push its unfortu-
nate possessors to terrible extremes, and cause them to descend
very, very low indeed to obtain gratification.

The prayers, entreaties, and tears of parents, supplemented
with the teachings of inspiration through the Priesthood of
the Almighty, are not sufficiently potent, at present, to induce
every one to be sober ; and one cause of weakness in this
respect lies in the solemn fact that the evil is not confined to the
young, and the consequent fact that,

"Example is a living law, whose sway
Men more than all the written laws obey."

2 • INTEMPERANCE.

•\

With these facts before us, we are prompted to make an
attempt, assisted by our heavenly Father, which shall be
preventive and reformatory in its character. We are per-
fectly willing that the elderly and aged of every clime, creed
and color shall derive all possible benefit from our feeble effort,
but our chief object is to bless the young.

The Lord has blessed His people in the vales of Utah and
adjoining Territories and States with a numerous posterity,
and they will continue to come to His faithful sons and
daughters in an ever-increasing ratio, until they are as num-
berless to man as the sands upon the sea shore. Their work
is important, and their destiny is great.

Knowing this, the adversary has introduced modern civili-
zation, with which to allure and destroy by making them
drunkards, and setting traps for their drunken feet, into which
they may walk and corrupt themselves- in body and mind,
render themselves unfit to fill their life's mission, and rob
themselves of the glorious destiny which awaits them.

Hence, we wish to exert an influence with the younger por-
tion of the rising generation, to induce them to shun bad
compan3T, to contract no bad habits, and to live pure before
Grod ; and with the elder portion, who may be too rapidly
forming within themselves monster appetites for tobacco and
intoxicating drinks, to stop self-destruction in every respect,
and preserve and exercise their God-given physical and men-
tal powers in the great work of a world's renovation, that
they may stand as saviors and not as destroyers upon Mount
Zion.

We would do this, and labor in faith, too, for we feel assured
that the labor will be of benefit to many, and not without
effect upon any; for the ''bread cast upon the waters will be
seen after many days, ' ' and Grod will bless the precious seed
sown by the honest sower, and cause it to produce celestial
fruit to His glory.

"Then sow, for the hours are fleeting, and the seed must fall

to-day;
And care not what hands shall reap it, or if you shall have

passed away
Before the waving corn-fields shall gladden the sunny day/'

THE USE OF TOBACCO. 3

We have connected tobacco with intoxicating drink, because
the habitual smoker is frequently an habitual drinker, or is
likely to become such, for an appetite for tobacco often pro-
duces a thirst for liquor, and the customs of the age fayor the
use of both.

The time was when smoking was not customary as at pres-
ent.

During the last quarter of the 16th century, Sir Walter
Raleigh took tobacco from Virginia and introduced it into*
England. One day his servant entered his study with a tank-
ard of ale for him, and saw Sir Walter for the first time with
a pipe in his mouth, and enveloped in the clouds of smoke
he was puffing out. The servant, having never seen any-
thing'of the kind before, "and believing his master was the sub-
ject of an "internal conflagration," dashed the ale in his face
with a view to extinguish it, and ran down stairs alarming
the other inmates of the house with the cry that his master
was ' 'on fire, and would be burned to ashes if they did not
hasten to his aid."

Not much alarm is created, to-day, when a man is emitting
smoke from his mouth, and nostrils, too !

An anecdote of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh
may not be out of place here.

Raleigh told the queen one day that he could tell her what
"the smoke weighed of every pipeful. of tobacco he con-
sumed." She laid a considerable wager that he could not,
but he proved the fact by weighing the tobacco before putting
it into his pipe, and weighing the ashes after he had smoked
the pipeful, showing that the difference was the weight of
the smoke. The queen admitted that he was correct, and
jocularly remarked as she paid the bet, "that she knew of
many persons who had turned their^ gold into smoke, but he
was the first who had turned smoke into gold. ' '

Young men, do you

CONVERT GOLD INTO SMOKE?

And, viewed from a financial standpoint, does it pay? Ben-
jamin Franklin says that "What maintains one vice would
bring up two children." Reflect seriously upon this matter.

4 INTEMPERANCE.

In regard to the use of tobacco producing an appetite for
strong drinks, we will introduce the testimony of one who
ought to know :

"A French physician has investigated the effect of smoking
on thirty-eight boys, between the ages of nine and fifteen,
who were addicted to the habit. Twenty-seven presented
distinct symptoms of nicotine poisoning. In twenty-two there
were serious disorders of the circulation, indigestion, dullness
oT intellect, and a marked appetite for strong drinks."

Man says it softens the bones, injures the brain, corrupts
the blood, and robs the human system of muscular and men-
tal energy ; and God says :

"IT IS NOT GOOD FOR MAN."

When men are in training for the prize-ring, for the bil-
liard match, for the foot-race, and for other purposes, requir-
ing the best physical condition, so that the best and most
that is in man can be got out of him, whether the purpose
for which these God-given powers are used be good or bad,
they are not allowed to use liquor or tobacco, although they
are apt to indulge excessively at other times. And if man
desires to put forth his best mental efforts, his system needs
to be free from the influence and effects of alcohol and
tobacco.

This statement is supported by a declaration published in
1874, as follows: "No man who has graduated at the head
of his class in Harvard College, within the last fifty-five years,
has used either spirits or tobacco in any form. ' '

Of course, this is equivalent to the assertion that no man
who used these things had graduated at the head of his class
during that period.

What a powerful testimony against its use !

If the physical and mental powers are injuriously affected
by these articles, how fare the spiritual? And can the
young Elder in Israel, who requires the fullest strength of all
the powers . of his being, expect to graduate at the head of
his class in the kingdom of God — the university of heaven —
and reach a celestial crown, if he persists in paralyzing and
destroying those powers by which alone he can win and wear
his crown?

WHAT IS INTOXICATION? 5

We will conclude our reference to the use of tobacco, by
introducing an anecdote on the filthy habit of chewing, from
the Boston Commercial Bulletin, entitled

"A KANSAS SPITTER."

"As the train stopped for ten minutes, and that individual,
who goes along tapping the wheels with his hammer, was
passing rapidly by the smoking car, one of the windows was
hoisted and a torrent of tobacco spittle was ejected which
completely deluged him. The machinist paused for a mo-
ment, and, wiping some of the stream from his person, said
to the offender, 'Mister, what part of the country did you
come from?' 'Me?' said the spitter, puckering his lips for
another expectoration, 'I come from Kansas.' 'I thought
so,' said the machinist, 'for if you had lived in Massachusetts
or Connecticut, they would have had a water-wheel in your
mouth long ago.'"

We will now turn our attention to the principal subject
before us, viz : The intemperate use of intoxicating drinks.

What is intoxication or drunkenness?

Here is one definition: "A man is intoxicated when he
knows what he does, and does not care ; and he is drunk when
he neither knows nor cares what he does;" and here is a
poetic definition:

"Not drunk is he who from the floor
Can rise again and drink some more;
But drunk is he who prostrate lies,
And who can neither drink nor rise."

And our readers may choose the prosaic or poetic, or sub-
stitute any other definition which may suit their fancy most.

It was an ancient custom of the Spartans, in order to
inculcate among their youth an abhorrence of intemperance
and its kindred vices, to make their slaves drunk with wine
in the public market-places, so that the rising generation,
"upon whom would some day devolve the honor and safety of
the Lacedemonian Republic, might see before them all the
ghastly details of the drunkard's disgrace, his loss of reason
and of physical strength."

If the necessity for such an exhibition existed among the
Spartans, modern civilization has rendered such an exhibi-

6 INTEMPERANCE.

tion unnecessary in our day, by supplying ample evidence of
the "drunkard's disgrace," in the natural, or unnatural order
of things, on a smaller scale, and no doubt at more frequent
intervals; and we heartily wish that the evidence thus fur-
nished would accomplish the Spartan object with the youth of
the present century.
Viewed from a financial standpoint,

DOES INTEMPERANCE PAY?

We will introduce some statistics showing the amount of
means spent in the United States and Territories, during the
year 1870, for intoxicating drinks; but we do not wish to imply
that the whole amount was spent by drunkards:
Imported and domestic distilled and spirit-
uous liquors - $1,344,000,000.
Brewed and fermented - 123,000,000.
Imported wines 15,000,000.
Domestic wines - - - 5,000,000.

$1, 487,000,000.

"New York spent $246,617,520; Pennsylvania, $152,663,-
495; Illinois, $119,932,945; Ohio, $151,734,875; Massachusetts,
>7'.i.572: Maryland, $40,561,620; Missouri, $54,627,855;
Indiana, $51,418*890; California, $59,924,090; Kentucky,
$50,223,115; Wisconsin $43,818,845; Michigan, 952,784,170;
Iowa, $35,582,695; Connecticut, $35,001,230; New Jersey,
740; Maine, $8,257,015; Rhode Island, 810.234,240;
New Hampshire. SI 2. 629, 275: Minnesota, 814.394,970; Dis-
trict of Columbia, | '.0; Vermont, $6,785,065; Kar
$8,503,856; Louisiana, $48,021,730; Tennessee, $20,283,635;
Georgia, $25,328.465; East Virginia, $26,132,903; Alabama,
$2^,025,885; Texas, $21,751,250; South Carolina, $10,610,625;
North Carolina, $13,224,340; West Virginia, $8,806 :
Arkansas, $7,858,320; Delaware, $3,770,355; Mississippi. 84,-
493,303; Oregon. S4, 261,240;- Nevada, $4,838,735; Nebraska,
_»0,515; Colorado, $3.745, 215: the Territories ; $14,169,
400; total $1,480,132,679."

Add to this a legitimate percentage of $90,000,000— the cost
of litigation, crimes, prisons, etc. — caused by intemperance,

DOES INTEMPERANCE PAY? 7

and we have the enormous sum of $1,500,000,000 spent for
intoxicating drinks in the United States in one year.

In 1870, there were in the United States 140,000 licensed
liquor saloons, which had an estimated daily average of 40
customers, making 5,600,000 drinkers, who, it is estimated,
spent their money during the year in the following pro-
portions :

Drinkers. Each spent. Total. **

100,000 $1,000,00 $100,000,000

100,000 900,00 90,000,000

100,000 800,00 80,000,000

100,000 700,00 70,000,000

100,000 600,00' 60,000,000

100,000 500,00 50,000,000

1,000,000 400,00 400,000,000

1,000,000 300.00 300,000,000

1,000,000 200,00 200,000,000

1,000,000 150,00 150,000,000

1,000,000 75,00 75,000,000

5,600,000 $1,575,000,000.

An average of about $280 dollars for each drinker.

Here is the cost of the following articles for the same year.
Compare and reflect :

Flour and meal, - - - $530,000,000
Cotton goods, 115,000,000

Boots and shoes, - - - 90,000,000

Clothing, 70,000,000

Wollen goods, 60,000,000

Newspaper and job printing, - 40,000,000

Total, $905,000,000

The State of Pennsylvania spent during 1870, for liquors of
all kinds, $152,663,945, for her schools and teaching only
$5,833,945. That State had 78,800 persons engaged in the
liquor business, and only 16,870 engaged in teaching school.
It was also burdened with 24,000 criminals, four-fifths of
whom, it was estimated, were made such by strong drink.

The city of Philadelphia had 4,160 drinking places, and
spent for intoxicating drinks in one year $38,000,000. Chi-
cago had 2,300 drinking establishments, in which $14,000,000

8 INTEMPERANCE.

was spent in one year. The great city of New York was
favored, in 1870, with 7,000 licensed drinking saloons, and
spent for intoxicating drinks the modest sum of $60,000,000,
having 35,000 persons engaged in the liquor traffic. At the
same time she had 475 churches and chapels, and 3,000 persons
engaged in preaching the various gospels and teaching the
public and private schools, at a cost of only $4,500,000 for
both religious and secular education.

It is estimated that there are "400,000 more persons
engaged in the liquor business in the United States than in
school teaching and preaching the various gospels;" that
said business is making, annually, "50.000 confirmed drunk-
ards;" that it is "sending to prisons 100,000 annually;"
that by it "200.000 children are annually reduced to want;"
that every year it "sends 150,000 persons to drunkards'
graves;" that it is costing this nation a yearly expenditure of
"$1,500,000,000," which might be spent for many better pur-
poses ; that it is converting millions upon millions of bushels
of grain, which God has given us for food for man and beast,
into beverages which inebriate, corrupt and destroy ; and that
it is the primal cause of a vast amount of the crime, poverty
and misery with which this nation is afflicted.

Again we ask, does it pay financially? No ! verily no !

A BILLION AND A HALF OF CASH !

It is easy to speak the words, but who can conceive the large
amount expressed by those words? And who can count that
large number? Where is the boy who will live long enough
to do so?

Could a boy commence counting with his first breath, and
continue doing so, at the rate of one a second, 12 hours a
day, 365 days a year, for 95 years, he would then find that
his task was hardly finished.

Such a sum of money would be sufficient to gather 15,000,.
000 of Israel, at $100 each, to the present gathering places
of the Saints of Grod. And, be it remembered, this large
sum is simply the estimated expenditure of the United
States for intoxicants for one year.

Again, does it pay individually? Does it pay the nation?
Do the broken hearts, the blighted homes, the squalid pov-

EXCUSES FOR DRINKING. 9

erty, the untold misery, and the almost incredible amount of
crime committed in this "Christian land, where men oft kneel
and pray," bring any commensurate returns for such an
enormous outlay? Verily, no! It is a bad investment,
individually and collectively, socially and morally, financially
and politically, religiously and eternally.

WHY DO MEN DRINK?

Numerous are the reasons assigned, and excuses furnished.
We once saw an alphabetical list of reasons, and have forgot-
ten them in form, but remember some of their substance.
One drinks to warm him in cold weather, and another to cool
him in warm weather. One because he has a pain in the
head, another because he has a pain in the back ; and others
because they have pains elsewhere. One because the doctor
recommends it, another because he does not, and he believes
a little would do him good. One because he is married,
another because he is divorced. One because he is going on
a journey, another because he is just returning from one.
One because he is parting with his friend who is going to a
foreign clime, another because his friend is just returned
from abroad. One because he is filled with joy, another
because he has much sorrow. One because he likes to be
sociable with his friends, another because he has not a friend
in the world. One because he is successful and happy,
another because he is unsuccessful and miserable. One
because he is sick, another to prevent sickness. One because
his uncle died and left him a legacy, another because his aunt
died and didn't leave him one. And so on. Thus reasons
and excuses might be furnished at great length. But these
are easily disposed of, and are as nothing compared with the
reason, "because I love it !" For this will prompt a man to
barter property, self-respect, reputation and the authority
and favor of heaven to obtain gratification. And what is the
sequel?

WHAT PROPERTIES HAVE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES?

They stimulate and use up nervous power, and, after their
action, leave the system less powerful than before.
Are they medicinal ?

10 INTEMPERANCE.

A geDtleman in "Washington, apparently in a decline, called
in one of the most eminent physicians, but as he did not
rapidly recover, he told the physician that whisky had been reco-
mended to him, and asked if it would do any good. "Yes,"
said the doctor, "it would help you." "Why, then, do you
not give it?" said the sick man. "Because I have given it
to a dozen gentlemen, and aU have become drunkards."

Are they tonic ?

Professor Miller says, "People consider alcohol as a simple
and common tonic, and are ready to accept its supposed help
as such in every form of weakness and general disorder of
health. But it is ordinarily no true tonic. In its primary
effect it is merely a stimulant, with narcotic action when given
in large doses. In its secondary action it is the reverse of
tonic. ' '

Are they nutritious?

Liebig, the great German chemist, declares, in regard to
beer: "We can prove with mathematical certainty, as plain
as two and two make four, that as much flour or meal as can
lie on the point of a table-knife, is more nutritious than nine
quarts of the best Bavarian beer ; that a man who is able
daily to consume that amount of beer obtains from it, in the
whole year, in the most favorable case, exactly the amount of
nutrition which is contained in a five -pound loaf of bread, or
in three pounds of flesh. ' '

What other properties have they ?

The old Indian thought one barrel of whisky contained a
good many fights.

Wellington thought tierces of wine contained something
which he feared more than an army, for, "during the Pen-
insular war, he heard that a large magazine of wine lay on
his line of march, and he dispatched a body of troops to
knock every wine barrel on the head. ' '

Dr. Gutherie declares: "I do in my conscience believe that
intoxicating stimulants have sunk into perdition more men
and women than found a grave in that deluge which swept over
the highest hill tops, engulphing a world, of which but eight
were saved."

ARE STIMULANTS NECESSARY? 11

We concede, therefore, that they have some properties and
powers !

Are stimulants necessary, in summer or winter, or in warm
or cold climates ?

Men have labored in every clime from the equator to the
arctic and the antarctic regions without their aid. The cele-
brated General Havelock, under the burning sun of India,
''abstained from their use." The world-renowned and
adventurous traveler and explorer, Dr. Livingstone, "adjured
their use ;" and the motto of Sir John Ross, amid the eternal
ice and perpetual snow of the artic regions was, ' 'Touch not,
taste not"

Horace G-reeley was a home-laborer, but a hard worker,
and he declared at sixty years of age that "he had worked
for forty years without intoxicating drinks, and had lengthened
his life by doing so." And we could give the names of a
number of the Elders of Israel who have labored long and
hard in the cause of truth and righteousness without the aid
of that which unmans, inebriates and destroys.

We once questioned an Elder relative to the propriety of
his going into the liquor business, the consistency of the act,
and the reason why he did so, and he honestly acknowledged
that there was

MONEY IN IT,

and he thought he might as well make it as anyone else, he
was after the dollar ; that was his only reason. We asked
him if he had reflected upon the moral effect his business
would have upon the youthful portion of the community, and
he replied that he had not — he thought of nothing but the
almighty dollar.

This is the object of many, and they have but few scruples
as regards the nature of the business they engage in, so long
as the object is reached.

Many will remember the anecdote of a man being drunk
and apparently asleep in a tavern, when it was remarked by
the landlord that the drunkard was taking the shingles off
the roof of his own house and putting them on the tavern-
keeper's, which remark the drunkard heard, and ceased visiting
the tavern. He was subsequently met by the tavern-keeper and

12 INTEMPERANCE.

asked why he did not come and enjoy his glass as usual, to
which he replied that he had concluded to put the shingles
on his own house.

Judging from the disposition manifested by some, liquor
dealers they would not only take the shingles, but the house,
too, the land upon which it stands, and every dollar's worth
of personal property, from a man, and then kick him out.

But all liquor venders would not do this. At least, one
notable exception comes to mind. Three or four years ago
we read the following and preserved it:

"At a second class hotel in Frankfort, Kentucky, a few
days since, a little girl entered a bar-room, and, in pitiful
tones, told the bar-keeper that her mother had sent her there
to get eight cents. 'Eight cents ! ' exclaimed the bar- keeper.

'"Yes, sir.'

"'What does your mother want eight cents for? I don't
owe her anything. '

"'Well,' said the child, 'father spends all his money here
for rum, and we have had nothing to eat to-day. Mother
wants to buy a loaf of bread. '

"A loafer suggested to the bar-keeper to kick the brat out.

"'No,' said the bar-keeper, 'I'll give the mother the
money; and if the father comes back again I'll kick him out!'

"Such a circumstance never happened before, and may
never happen again. Humanity owes that bar-keeper a vote
of thanks."

Among habitual drinkers can be found some who have
nherited the

LOYE OF LIQUOR.

Their parents, in a few instances, may have fostered and
strengthened this love, and they themselves have fed it until
it is a part of their being — an insatiate monster continually
crying, give ! GIVE ! GIVE ! and dragging its victim down to
penury, disgrace and hell. Such have but little power
of resistance, and it gradually grows shamefully less. When
once the taste, or even the smell greets their olfactories,
resistance, resolution, self-control and reason seem powerless,
and the unscrupulous fiend within bears sway and accom-
plishes his deadly purpose.

LOVE OF LIQUOR. 13

While writing upon this point, we are prompted to introduce
an anecdote of Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of the greatest, if
not the greatest, of the literary men of the 18th century:

'"Pray sir,' asked Dr. Aston, 'what objection have you to
wine?'

'"A sound one, sir,' answered Dr. Johnson, 'it disagrees
with me.'

"'And yet, sir,' says Mrs. Thrail, 'you will eat heartily of
a veal pie, stuffed with plums — a mess that would poison an
ostrich. '

"'Madam,' he answered, 'you have to accept life on the
conditions under which it is offered. I can eat veal pie and
plums without injury to my health, for when my hunger is
appeased, I eat no more. But of wine, madam, I am never
to know when I have had enough. One glass creates the
want of another, and a second demands the support of a
third. Besides, madam, I have no confidence in my powers
of resistance. There is a heedless vivacity in wine that is
above the reach of judgment. Come, Dr. Aston, let us pledge
one another in water and put in for a hundred. '

" 'Well,' said Sir Charles Bracebridge, 'for my part I had
rather die at fifty a wine drinker than to live to a hundred on
water. '

'"And, sir, you will have all the fools in the country
to agree with you,' answered Dr. Johnson."

And what is to be done in such a case? Why, never to
touch the accursed stuff, to wake up or give sway to the
destructive fiend. This is the only sure remedy. Apply it,
and let "all the fools in the country" benefit by your example.

While writing the word "fools," we were reminded of some
of the sayings of the great temperance orator,

J. B. GOUGH.

He, no doubt, has done much good. But he, too, found his
powers of resistance insufficient, for he "lapsed" sometime
ago, so we read in a public print, and now pays a person a
large salary to travel with him to prevent another "lapse."
Read, young men, what he says for your benefit :

"Young men, as you lift the gleaming wine-glass to your
lips in the jollity of the night's spree, will it pay? It is a

14 INTEMPERANCE.

gross insult to call a man a fool. Every man would resent it;
but in the suffering of the next morning, with disturbed
conscience, aching head, throbbing temples, racking brain
hot, fevered tongue, and all the horrible reaction that might
come, does not the victim of aches clasp his burning hands
and bitterly call himself fool ! fool ! It does not pay to begin.
First you tolerate it, then you touch and taste it, then you
jest and laugh at it, and then revel in it. When it becomes
your master, then what ? What numbers have been swept
down in the hurricane of temptation! In the mad power of
this passion they have burst the bonds of a mother's love,
trampled a father's counsels in the dust, mocked at reproofs
and tears and prayers ; and now, with tattered sails, leaking
hull, and spHntered masts, are drifting on amid howling
winds and wintry skies to utter ruin; when they might have
reached the haven of peace and security laden with honor
and happiness. Verily it does not pay. ' '

RESIST TEMPTATION.

Some bright examples, may be found of resistance to the
temptation to become uneober, and of firmness in the practice
of sobriety.

General William Henry Harrison, born at Berkeley, on the
banks of the James river, in Virginia, February 9th, 1773,
became the ninth President of the United States on the 4th
of March, 1841. He died on the 4th of the next month,
thus serving in that responsible position only one month.

He was successful as a general, as governor of the "Indiana
Territory," comprising the present States of Indiana, Illinois
and Wisconsin, and would no doubt have been successful, had
he been permitted to live, as President of the United States?
during one or two terms of office.

His historian says: "Not one single spot can be found to
sully the brightness of his fame ; and, through all the ages,
Americans will pronounce with love and reverence the name
of William Henry Harrison."

Now, to what was this attributable? Was he a sober man?
We will introduce him and let him speak for himself.

While he was running for the presidency, he was asked at a
dinner to take wine. He declined. He was urged, and again

RESIST TEMPTATION. 15

declined. Again he was requested and urged. This was too
much. He arose from the table, his tall form erect, and in
the most dignified manner thus addressed those present :

"Gentlemen, I have refused twice to partake of the wine-
cup; that should be sufficient. Though you press the cup to
my lips, not a drop shall pass the portals. 1 made a resolve,
when I started in life, that 1 would avoid strong drink, and I
have never broken it. I am one of a class of seventeen young
men who graduated, and the other sixteen fill drunkard's
graves, all through the pernicious habit of social wine-drink-
ing. I owe all my health, happiness and prosperity to that
resolution. Will you urge me now?"

This example, and similar ones which the world's history
furnishes, to which may be added the illustrious examples of
many of the Elders of Israel now living, is the kind of an
example for the youth in Zion to pattern after. Our young
people of both sexes need bodily and mental vigor for the
life-work before them. They also need "the faith once deliv-
ered to the Saints," and the power which comes by faith and
through the authority of the holy Priesthood ; for the work
in the near future is great, and it devolves upon them to per-
form it to the acceptance of the Almighty.

Can this vigor and faith and power be obtained by the hab-
itual use of intoxicating drinks? No. Drunkenness weakens
physical strength, makes lunatics, and destroys in man the
soil in which the seeds of faith and power may be planted
and nurtured until they mature in the Godship in celestial
mansions.

The adversary knows this. He also knows the brilliant des-
tiny which awaits many of the young, and he is toiling
energetically to rob them of the thrones for which they are
destined. The effects of his work, when he succeeds in cor-
rupting the young, reach into eternity. He is working to-day
to accomplish a specific object in ages to come. The seed he
sows will bear its legitimate and natural fruits.

As a writer once said, "Strong drink is not only the devil'8
way into a man, but it is man's way to the devil. ' ' Let his way
in this direction be hedged up.

16 INTEMPERANCE.

"Though you press the cup to my lips," said General Har-
rison, "not a drop shall pass the portals." In this course
there is safety. In the other course there is danger.

The results of a course of sobriety are also far-reaching;
they reach into the eternities, and their influence will be felt
forever.

This course will also bear its natural fruit, And what will
this fruit be? "Why, in this life, health and happiness, peace
and prosperity, respect and influence, the favor of the honor-
able of earth and of the hosts of heaven, together with
blessings and advantages which mortal tongue and pen can
not make known; and in the life which is to come the prob-
able fruit will be the fruit of immortality, and the pen of an
immortal must be wielded to make known what that fruit
shairbe.

But trust in our Heavenly Father for the benefits to be
derived in the hereafter, and you will not be disappointed.
And even were there no hereafter, for the sake of the comfort
and peace, and joy and satisfaction, and conscious innocence
before God, which a life of sobriety imparts in this life, be
sober.

When liquor's direful power is working on the brain
From what infernal crime will mortal man refrain?

LEARN TO SAY NO.

In every condition and circumstance of life, young men
need decision of character — the Yes and No faculty — and it is
especially needed when the tempter says, "drink !" For the
want of this many are started on the road to ruin, and kept
traveling thereon. They may say "No," but the thing is too
weak to live, and very soon becomes Yes.

It may not be necessary to always blurt out the blunt, "No,
sir!" This is not our meaning. Kespectful language, suitable
to person and occasion, embodying a healthy, well-meant
negative, is what we mean, and not a "No" that is a puny half
yes. The "No" which has the backing of decision of character,
firm resolution, stern determination, and the Spirit of the
living God, is the no that will live and prosper. It is under-
stood to be all "No", it is not tampered with much, and it
carries salvation with it. Young men need not fear to prop-

LEARN TO SAY UNO." 17

erly use it. They will be respected for doing so, and will
grow in power to use it effectually.

"But," says one, "suppose I am invited or requested by
my particular friend, or by one in authority over me, must I
decline, if by so doing I am liable to offend?"

We will ask, what kind of a friend or person in authority
must he be who would take offense were you to respectfully
decline? From such friendship and authority, good Lord
deliver us and you, and the sooner the better !

George Washington, the "father of his country," and,
under God, its principal preserver and savior, while he lived,
was once a "friend" and "in authority." Read the following
beautiful incident in the life of that true friend and noble

Officer. BANCROFT

"Toward the close of the revolutionary wws^tSSfs' BP.'tSx,
"an officer in the army dined with Washington. Just before
the dinner was concluded, General Washington stood up and
called him by name, and requested him to drink a glass of
wine with him.

"'Will you have the goodness to excuse me, General?'
replied the officer. 'I have made it a rule never to take
wine.'

"All eyes were instantly turned upon the young officer, and
a murmur of surprise and indignation ran around the table.

' 'That a person should be so unsocial and so mean as never
to drink wine was really too bad ; but that he should abstain
from it on an occasion like that, and even when offered to
him by Washington himself, was perfectly intolerable!
Washington at once saw the feelings of his guests, and
promptly addressed them :

" 'Gentlemen,' said he, 'our friend is right. I do not wish
any of my guests to partake of anything against their incli-
nation, and I certainly do not wish them to violate any
established principle in their social intercourse with me. /
honor my friend for his frankness, for his consistency in thus
adhering to an established rule, which can never do him harm,
and for the adoption of which I have no doubt he has good
and sufficient reasons. ' '

81 INTEMPERANCE.

All with whom you have intercourse may not be Washing-
tons in this respect, but be not discouraged; your influence and
example may help to make them such ; and, should this not
be the case, remember that the bitter and sweet are inter-
mingled in this life, that it is your privilege to enjoy the
benefit of opposition, which helps to establish the right;
which, in connection with the love of right, rouses into active
energy the noblest, the brightest, and the most G-od-like pow-
ers of its champions, makes of them the men which they
otherwise would not be, and adds to their honor and glory in
time and eternity.

It may be that some young men may consider themselves
too young to form resolutions, or that they cannot break off
their evil habits, which have become comparatively old and
established in them, or that there is no use to do so — all
will be well with them. They will not become dishonored or
disgraced, or be any the worse for their present course,
oh, no !

Will such please to read carefully the following statement
of Admiral Farragut ?

"Would you like to know how I was enabled to serve my
country? It was all owing to a resolution I formed when I
was ten years of age. My father was sent down to New
Orleans with the little navy we then had, to look after the
treason of Burr. I accompanied him as a cabin boy. I had
some qualities that I thought made a man of me. I could
swear like an old salt ; could drink as stiff a glass of grog as
if I had doubled Cape Horn; and could smoke like a locomotive.
I was great at cards, and fond of gambling in every shape.
At the close of the dinner, one day, my father turned every-
body out of the cabin, locked the door and said to me :

" 'David, what do you mean to be?'

" 'I mean to follow the sea.'

'"Follow the sea! Yes, be a poor, miserable, drunken
sailor before the mast, kicked and cuffed about the world,
and die in some fever hospital in a foreign clime!'

"'No; I'll tread the quarter-deck, and command as you
do.'

ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. 19

" 'No, David ; no boy ever trod the quarter-deck with such
principles as you have, and such habits as you exhibit. You'll
have to change your whole course of life, if you ever become
a man!'

"My father left me and went on deck. I was stunned by
the rebuke, and overwhelmed with mortification. 'A poor,
miserable, drunken sailor before the mast, kicked and cuffed
about the world, and to die in some fever hospital!' That's
my fate, is it? I'll change my life, and change it at once. I
will never utter another oath ; I will never drink another drop
of intoxicating liquors ; I will never gamble. And, as God
is my witness, I have kept those three vows to this hour."

What think you of this case, young men ? Here was a
boy of tender years but precocious in vicious habits. At this
very early age he had a good start on the road to ruin. The
idea of a boy of ten being able to "swear like an old salt;"
to "drink as stiff a glass of grog as if he had doubled Cape
Horn;" to "smoke like a locomotive;" and to be "great at
•cards, and fond of gambling in every shape !"

But he had a father who desired his welfare, and sought to
reform his boy, and that boy could form a resolution and keep
it, thus making himself an able officer and an honorable man,
and leaving on record, for the benefit of others, his testimony
of his experience in vicious habits in early youth, his father's
effort, his own resolution, .and his testimony before God that
he had kept his vows.

And we will say to the young man whom it may concern,
"Go thou and do likewise !"

"Evil communications corrupt good manners. " Bad com-
pany proves the bane of millions. Young Farragut must
have been in very bad company to have been what he was at
ten years of age. Purity of language and refinement of
manners are not cultivated by many young men as they should
be, neither is the moral tone which characterizes their inter-
course with each other as high as it might be.

Boys associate with young men, young men with their
seniors up to seventy; sufficient caution is not "used in conver-
sation; the force of exam pie is not thought of, or else disregarded;
'boys learn things which it would be well for them to be igno-

20 INTEMPERANCE.

rant of till they attain manhood ; and young men, and boys
too, learn some things which it would be a blessing to them
to remain ignorant of through life. Many of them would
grow up much freer from the vices of the age were it not for
the lax conversation and contagious example of their elders.
Boys are imitative. They learn many things as birds learn to
chirp.

We say, young men, keep good company ; but as we write
the advice, the Spirit say*: ''Make good company for the
young!" And we humbly acknowledge the necessity of the
admonition. Purify thyself, is the injunction to each. It is
an individual labor. God speed its accomplishment !

But the young have their agency, and we say to them : be
wise, careful, and discriminate in selecting your associates.
Keep good company, and avoid in wisdom that which is bad.
Some years ago we saw in a New York publication an incident
in the life of a lady, which, being apropos, we embody here :

"One evening, a lady, who belongs on the editorial staff of
one of the leading dailies of New York, had been detained
by official duties until a rather late hour. Living on the
Heights of Brooklyn, it was not much of a venture to go
home without an escort, so she started. On the boat a gentle-
man (?) said to her :

" 'Are you alone?'

'No, sir,' said the lady, and when the boat touched stepped
off.

' 'I thought you said you were not aloue.' said the fellow,
stepping to her side again.

" 'I am not,' replied the lady.

" 'Why, I don't see anyone; who is with you?'

" 'G-od Almighty and the angels, sir! — I am never alone !'

" 'Madam,' he replied, 'you keep too good company for
me , good night. ' '

That is the sort of company to keep. Blessed is he or she
who is favored with it. Seek for it. Live to be worthy of
it. Evil companions may turn away from you, but do not
utterly forsake them. Be the good Samaritan. When
proper opportunities offer, help to raise the fallen to a higher

UTAH'S "REFORMERS." 21

plane, and encourage them to seek, by purity of life, the
enjoyment of the same "good company."

LEARN WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE.

Utah abounds in self-styled, blatant pseudo-reformers, who
publish to the world that they "believe that billiard halls,
saloons and houses of ill-fame are more powerful reforming
agencies here in Utah than churches and schools." They ask
the question : "What is a game of billiards, a glass of beer,
a cup of coffee, a cigar or other petty vice, in the span of a
strong human life, filled with endeavor in the right direction?''
And, at least, one of those loud-mouthed, would-be-reformers
exhibits the purity of his heart and motive, and the excellent
reformatory influence(?) he would like to wield among Utah's
youthful sons, in the following elegant sentence :

"I rejoice when I see the young Mormon hoodlums playing
billiards, getting drunk, running with bad women — anything
to break the shackles they were born in, and that every
so-called religious or virtuous influence only makes the
stronger. ' '

Young Israel ! ye fortunate, ye promising, ye honored sons
of noble sires, what think you of the reforming agencies by
which your professed friends would reform you? What think
you of the very peculiar reformation which would be wrought
in you were these agencies exercised upon you in their
full reformatory force? What think you of the meek-faced,
oily-tongued, spiritually-minded and extra-philanthropic re-
formers who would use such heavenly agencies to produce
such a glorious effect?

Aye, what think you ! And be sure you do think. Think
seriously, think deeply, think frequently, and think in the
light of revelation and heaven ; for your present and eternal
interests are at stake. A deadly aim is made at your destruc-
tion. Insidious influences are at work to effect your over-
throw. Therefore, be on your guard, and give diligent heed
to your true friends and Utah's long- tried and well-proven
reformers.

Who is this other class of reformers, what»agencies would
they use, and what reform do those composing it essay to
effect? This class is mainly composed of the Elders of Israel

22 INTEMPERANCE.

— the servants of the living God — men in whom dwells the
inspiration of the Holy One, which prompts them to almost
incessant labor, and to spaie neither time nor means to accom-
plish their God-given task. And the reform they would
effect is the salvation of a fallen world, some of the details
of which they have been working at, with varying success, for
over half a century. Alter arriving in Utah they toiled to
cultivate and redeem this portion of the earth, and there is
plenty of evidence to-day of their success in "turning the
wilderness into a fruitful field." They strove to displace the
howl of the wolf with the hum of industry, and their success
is seen on every hand. They labored to establish a commu-
nity in these mountains second to none on earth, in morality
and true religion, and they have done so. They have striven
for possible reform in every reformable thing, and God has
abundantly blessed their efforts. And lastly, and definitely,
they have labored under the pressure of poverty and national
opposition to raise up a generation of men and women of
which the heavens should be proud, and they have succeeded
in this, too.

Now, ye youth of Zion, need we ask you who are your
friends —

UTAH'S TRUE REFORMERS?

We think not. You know them. Experience, observation
and the spirit of truth teach you who they are. Then respect
them. Obey their wise counsels. Heed their fatherly admo-
nitions. Receive their saying corrections. Be cautious and
careful, be prudent and discerning in the choice of your
society. Place yourselves on the list of Utah's true reformers.
Live, labor and remain there tiii your f^aucis of time have run,
and you will find yourselves listed for high honors and heirship
with Jesus the beloved of the Father.
BE SOBER.

Young men, we do not write for money. Our sole object
is to do you good. Please allow us the pleasure of doing so.
Read carefully, studiously and prayerfully. Read again with
a fixed determination to profit aud reform. Cease to sap
your physical and mental power by indulging in vicious
habits. Remember those powers were given you to be used

BE SOBER. 23

for your own elevation and salvation, and to aid in the hercu-
lean task of the world's redemption. You will have to render
an account of the use of those "talents," therefore do not
abuse them, but use them carefully and wisely; exercise them
that they may shine brightly, and grow in strength, prepara-
tory to immortalization.

Immortalization ? Yes ! verily, yes ! Do you know that
the time draweth nigh when the Son of Man "will come in
the clouds of heaven, in power and great glory," accompanied
by a heavenly host, and that the righteous will be "caught
up to meet Him" at His glorious appearing?

And do you know, young men, that it is not the privilege
of many of you to be among the number who will be "changed
in the twinkling of an eye," from mortality to a degree of
immortality ?

And who will have the glorious privilege ? Do you want
it? Then live for it.

Do you want healthy, vigorous and pure bodies ?

Do you want your spirits to hold righteous dominion over
your bodies, and to be as untainted by sin as whea they left
your heavenly home?

Do you desire intellectual ability and superiority to enable
you to mold the minds of millions yet unborn?

Do you wish to become the kind of men, physically, men-
tally and morally, through whom the Lord delights to operate,
to perform His magnificent latter-day work ?

Would you like to impart joy unutterable to the bosoms of
loving and anxious parents?

Would you like to experience the exquisite satisfaction
which conscious innocence before Glod imparts?

Do you desire your minds to be holy tablets, upon which
the Spirit of inspiration shall delight to indite the will of
heaven, daily, for the benefit of yourselves and all others who
may be affected by your counsels and example ?

Would you be the happy recipients of the choice and
inestimable blessings the Lord has promised to those who
keep the "Word of Wisdom?"

In brief, do you desire to become the strong-bodied, vigor-
ous-minded, pure-hearted men of God — the holy temples in

24 INTEMPERANCE.

which the Third Person in the Trinity can dwell and operate
for your salvation, and that of the salvable of Adam's race-
such men as He can use and honor in life and eventually exalt
and crown in His celestial kingdom ?

Then be humble and pure, be prayerful and persevering,
he honest and wise, be virtuous and obedient — be all that
Grod desires you to be! And. as an initial, fundamental and
powerful means by which to attain the position and glory of
the Highest— besoberl BE SOBER! BE SOBER!

TAUGHT BY A GOAT.

"A thoughtless Welshman, with a thirsty throat-
So goes the tale — possessed a favorite goat,
Which follow' d him, when once, to play the sot,
He sought the taproom and the foamy pot.
He gave her drink, when, by the cheerful blaze,
Strangely forgetting all her sober ways,
She r«el!d about and roll'd upon the floor,
As never goat had roll'd about before.
The giggling topers so enjoyed the sight,
That they would have the fun another night.
The Welshman took her, but the goat, alas!
The portal of the pot-house would not pass.
Her master uselessly tried every mode,
And pats and punches freely were bestowed.
The landlord strove, and did his best, they say,
But all in vain, for Nanny won the day ;
Cuffing and coaxing, both alike she bore,
Nor could they get her through the pot-house door.
The wondering Welshman, now no longer blind,
Pondered the thing a moment in his mind;
Then prudently adopted, in the end,
The wise example of his shaggy friend —
Forsook the pot-house, and reformed his plan,
And from that hour became a sober man.
Ye drunkards all, this prudent lesson follow,
Or own, in sense, a goat can beat you hollow."

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