Show AS TO prohibition this paper is a well aware of the fact that should the desert news condescend ande andesen cen d to notice the big orum rum pus a wr certain I 1 am little fellow oer mer at cedar city thinks he has raised and the knockout 9 blow he feels feel that he he has dealt that newspaper on the prohibition question it can and no doubt will take care of itself is jet et we feel impressed to remark a at t this time that it is a well known fact it is due entirely to the efforts and work of the betterment le league ague that utah is now imbued in ad its parts wi with t h a deep seated sentiment me t in favor of and a determination that we will have statewide prohibition hibi tion and that without the des ret news as its champion and organ that league would have been able to accomplish but wry very little it may be true that the deseret news being a strictly and truly nonpar nonpartisan kisan paper has hag not entered the field of party politics with its fight for prohibition but no one ODE can assert A th anything like rea son or truth that it has not son con silently persistently insistently in n and out of season belabored the liquor liquor traffic advocated the case of t true ue temperance as well as the cause of prohibition in all its forms forma as a means to aid in accomplishing that and been a bigger help than any other institution or enterprise within the state of utah in pointing po intine out the benefits that prohibition has brought to other states and communities muni ties a and d in pointing out the fallacies in the arguments against prohibition if we are an to be consistent in our III fight for prohibition let us no not t raise a fight against prohibitions best friend and champion in the he state but let us who are real prohibitions ts flock to the primaries of both and all political parties and see to it ib that none but our friends are elected del gates to the conventions where the real work in the way of platform making and ticket naming is done it would be much better and more consistent for members of the betterment league who are republicans and for all prohibition ests who are republicans to we see to it that delegations are sent to ogden who will not nominate governor spry or any other candidate for office whom they suspect of being opposed to prohibition or whom the liquor interests and the so called business men of salt lake and ogden opposing prohibition hibi tion own body and soul mul than to stay at home from the t primaries marne and permit the other kind of re publicans public ans to go to the convention and nominate a ticket and then defeat that ticket at the polls poll the times confesses conless cs that right here it is exposing some of the re pahl banoun that imbued imbues the person of its editor and which perhaps it should not do being a nonpartisan put paper arbutt but it anan maintains tame that is speaking advisedly if not advisable |