| Show More About Prohibition Even the Richfield and Millard County Papers Are Against It In the excellent article on the prohibition agitation by J. H. Paul in our last Paul said what is the use of talking any Why agitate the prohibition question It is already settled for four No state-wide prohibition measure can be passed while Spry is Paul could have stated further that no such bill would pass if John C. Heber M. J. H. Theodore William Bryan or W. H. Taft were governor of Effects of Anyone who has studied the effects and failures of state-wide prohibition would veto statewide prohibition Do the people of Utah really desire to have an internal fight on their Do we choose to go through the fighting and murder that Iowa When that state tried to banish the drink look at the awful failure look at the years of after Iowa had to go back to a system of licensed the failure of the sixteen other states that tried and then returned to licensed Why not let the of the other states be a warning to Why try to stop a business that Uncle Sam Boycott the But you can boycott the saloon by keeping out of it yourself and by seeing that your children do the If a saloon does not have patronage it will die therefore kill the saloon by your Do not call for more food when you cannot eat what is before Do not ask for more laws on the temperance question till you have enforced the laws you now The bad boy usually becomes the saloon customer and He and the bad girl are usually made so by being permitted to run the streets at night without Why not enforce the state and city curfew the cigarette The law as to minors in the the habitual drunkard the all-night and the Sunday-closing laws that we now have enforce these before you attempt to pass more laws that would be more easily Even local option has plenty of troubles and The following from the Richfield Reaper speaks for Richfield this is Richfield has been made the laughing stock of the entire state ever since prohibition was inaugurated here last and it is time that some change should take By the course which has been pursued by the city officers in the they seem to be having a difficult time in handling the liquor The Millard County Progress-Review of October 15 has the following excellent article on subject You Favor question has been asked us a number of times by different and our answer is individual This is what we and this we and if every man who speaks or writes is in favor of prohibition it would be a long step towards and that should be the first move in that the churches that teach temperance and abstinence might enforce their teachings by withdrawing their fellowship from members who think more- of gratifying a depraved appetite than their That would be a test to prove and would undoubtedly work a reformation in many and also purify religious The Mormon church has in its law book and what is called the of as interpreted by the church i's a prohibition law binding upon every member of that and if that law be and if why It is our opinion that it would close many saloons now doing a thriving there are the who are supposed to all he in favor of temperance-and if why not the young ladies form a combine against intemperance by refusing to have anything to do with drinking Boycott the say young ladies because some of the married ladies have drinking and as they have been taken for or they will have to put up with but if all the young ladies who are in favor of temperance would boycott every drinking it would be ai mighty lever for the uplifting of young and would bring us much nearer to As for law-made national and statewide it is so far off that we cannot discover it with the naked and we do not believe law-made prohibition in spots is Uncle Sam Not a we bear in mind the facts that the government de- j clares the selling of intoxicating liquors as a legitimate and for the small sum of per annum it will grant the privilege to anyone to sell liquor anywhere in the United and that the constitutional convention of Utah turned down the prohibition and our last legislature overruled the request of petitioners for and there being so many men wanting the law-made prohibition from our viewpoint is a long ways |
