Show I POINTS OUT SAMS 1 IN PROHIBITION PLAN 1 I Salt Lake Jan 21 1 1909 l O Mr Ir Editor Last Sunday a gentleman gentle gentle- man called at nt our house homo and saul ail he had been ren appointed to canvass cann 5 the thc block o we 0 live in to 10 secure I signatures i to ton a a p petition to the l legislature 3 asking them to lo enact a law w prohibiting the manufacture and sale alc of liquor in the state of Utah Ho lie asked l mo inn would I J like to sign n it iI 1 I asked him to bo ho seated r lp l took the petition in my mr hand but hut delayed i signing sign u. u ing irig it a little to lo listen to the tho gentleman gentle gentle- man us as ho told toM of the tho a awful ful thin things 5 I that conic comp to io people on account of our young men and young youns women too who nho are Jur lured r to 10 visit tho the low Jow drinking tire dives and amid other immoral places where here liquors are arc sold I to told him T J had some doubt a as to tin the of nf trying to leg leg- piety piet into or VII evil out of people I told 1011 him I believed it iL required something something some some- thin thing sweeter nn and kinder than lc legislative legis i enactments to get t at the root of tin Ihl trouble and ll to destroy destro it it hut but that th t tJ I J was as n a total abstainer sta ncr myself and amid thi this seemed to be ht an effort in iii m my direction direction di di- nu ail 1 I would woul sign it it lh Then n I r reading tho short hort petition It IL sure enough nough asked for RJ a R J law Jaw to prevent the tho manufacture rind find sal sale in ill tho state hut but the 1110 I law w asked for contained exceptions exception so FO o UI I suggestive of inconsistency J that I t had a mind min to lack hack down hut but I 1 finally signed ned it as asI asI asI I said paid I would X Now t these hc e n are ro th the exceptions ExCept Except Ex for medicinal mechanical and sacramental sacramental sac sae- I T I asked my friend what that first exception meant He lie said paid Why Why Wh it gives tb the doctors the tho right to prescribe it for sick ick people I asked him If he ho did not think w wen well ell p people stronger er and ll better belter a able ablo lo to resist re rc re- re the tho evil vii of the vile ilo stuff than sick iek and he admitted that it might be c so M. Then I asked him bim ho how about th the last t exception What that meant Wh Why he lIe said gaid that allows it to be bought bou bt and used in tho the church at communion communion I said can u it be possible ln that thinking Christian people fan can kneel down in their churches to consecrate their lives more practically to tho service of God GOl with t the touch and taste of this vile ite stuff on their hands and in their mouths 1 Ho lie said tid That is what it is for anyway Then I said Well WeB T I will ill have havo to siAn it with a strong protest And I INow dlo Now Mr Tr Editor I want ant you on to 10 try to get these p people ople in the 1 legislature to strike tho those n three out of their thir prohibition bill If H we are arc going to have a prohibition tion bill hill let Jet us 15 have hac ono one that prohibits Thorn Thero can cant can't t bo be a thin thing ur urged rl consistently tenth in favor of the tho first farst and third exceptions b by people who tho claim to ho bo Christian or moral And as for tho second second sec ace ond end exception who can fu suggest gest a n use uso of or liquor for mechanical pl purposes Nj that can not he be as well served b by non nen eating cating catin oils Get them m to strike out put the tho cx creep creep- cp- cp tion if you can Mr fr Editor and oblige c ours sincerely TEETOTALER ALEE |