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Show The Coming Election The coming election in June is as important im-portant to the welfare of the people as a presidential e lection. Upon it depends the establishment of a better moral influence, in-fluence, the eradication of 50 to 75 per cent of the crime, good clean cities, a cleaner race of people and greater happiness. hap-piness. There are various opinions obtaining among the people of this fair state regarding re-garding this important question and the "wets" argue that it will cause a stag- j nation in business that the state will j not overcome in a creat many years. They claim that it will make thieves, sneaks and liars of men who will have it. Last but not ieast they make the assertion that cities and states that are now prohibitionists have found the plan to be unsuccessful because the law doesn't prohibit. A great many business busi-ness men of Salt Lake and other places have gotten together and petitioned the people to vote against prohibition on these grounds. This list of petitioners looks big but the Deseret News says that the list comprises less than 5 per cent of the business men of Salt Lake City and their rights should not be favored agai.ist 05 per cent of the population. pop-ulation. The "drys" hold that business will not be stagrated only to the saloon keeper himself. What he has to spend he has, in many cases, taken from the mouth of suffering wives and hungry children. They claim, too, that the "wets," to make an argum"nt in their favor, have taken only the words of passersbv who may have passed through the prohibition towns they claim are failures. Why not take the words of the officials of states and cities in preference pref-erence to rattle-brained travelers? The News has taken occasions to write to several governors and important city mayors whose cities are dry and are publishing their replies. Why do the "wets" not do the same? The "drys" claim that the prohibition move will prohibit. True, it will not prohibit every movo but the people as a whole will be rid of the evil. Let the people who have sank low enough to be lawbreakers seek the holes in the ground if thex will, but let's not let them contaminate con-taminate the whole generation. It has been argued, too, that such a law robs a man of his free agency. Not so. That law will give you freedom, free-dom, "fences are made for those who cannot fly." Obeying the law, even through necessity, will free the population pop-ulation from the chains of poverty and final destruction of both body and soul. Could anyone argue that the laws of nature rob man oE the right to do as he pleases? Could anyone argue that the crimnal law makes murderers? N , it only punishes tho-e who do. The people should weigh this question seriously ser-iously before going to the poles and be sure thev are convinced. |