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Show OTHERS' VIEWS i LET US BE FAIR - By L. A. Hollenbeck The great issue in Utah at the election next Tuesday, is, "Shall Utah vote for or against repeal of the prohibition ; laws - - both state and national?" Above all things else, we should have open minds. Minds free from bias and open to all arguments. ' A man with a free mind is the noble work of God. That means a free agency and a free agency, doesn't mean decision to do something because somebody else says to do it; or because you have made up your mind to vote a certain way of your own free will, when that will is backed by prejudice or a closed mind to any and all arguments. Such a state of mind is not an open and free mind. It has the defect discovered and defined by Schopenhauer, who said that "We do not want a thing because we have found reasons for it, but we find reasons for it because we want it." That is the general rule of human thinking and it is wrong Let us amend the usual way and determine that we will really have an open mind and vote according to the actual arguments for or against prohibition. Most people who are going to vote for the retention of our prohibition pro-hibition laws admit that the law (Continued on Page Six) LET US BE FAIR (Continued from page one) has been a failure, - - for 15 years. The democratic party declared it a failure, and for repeal. The republican re-publican party declared it was not working and wanted to amend it. But, with these admissions, the issue is now for repeal or against repeal. Are you going to vote against repeal when the people generally admit that it is a failure? and when you see the prohibition law violated openly on all sides? Ah! says somebody, you will make it worse. How can you make it worse, when it isn't working at all, and the big bootleggers boot-leggers and racketeers are getting gett-ing all the profits and all the taxes too? We are not going back to the saloon. But we are going to regulate it and control it. We have the experience of other nations na-tions that are making a success of regulation. We know that success suc-cess is based upon good sound reasoning and if we get repeal, it means that we will have a - free hand to control the liquor traffic, and we know we can control it. The human mind hasn't gone bankrupt quite yet, if it has then we are going to the devil. But, we are not going-to the devil, but on the contrary we are going to have a better and cleaner America, and the only way is to start anew and vote for repeal. |