Show Point From a of View i Utah 1 notice that you give prominence to an article called fallacy of This is an argument by Nephi Jen-son in a debate with Superintendent B. V. Jenson is an able and I like to near him argue the other side of ine The main thought of the argument is that prohibition does not True prohibition does not absolutely neither do laws against robbery ana burglary absolutely Who would the laws against robbery and and these crimes will not If a man has a desire for liquor he will get no matter what laws but the great crime of the saloons is that they annually make a multitude of drunkards from the Certainly there is less drinking among the boys in prohibition communities than in communities where the saloons are inviting them to When they go into a it is considered the proper thing for each to treat to the The result is that too often these under the influence of the afterwards visit worse places of quickly down the slippery ways of as everyone gambling halls and disreputable rooming houses are often over or near the In the sheep business I dread the saloons more than If the saloons were not temptation would be removed from many Jenson speaks of the speakeasies and the blind It is true that some will go to these places in the back but not so many as will go into an attractive room on a principal where electric lights are blazing and the music is sounding and the doors are open wide and the law in if you there is no I have more confidence in human nature than to think that mankind generally delights in doing what is I believe that most men are law and when the law stamps its disapproval on the that alone will deter multitudes from breaking the I am also of the opinion of if public sentiment is not for it could not be if prohibition is not far better not to have I that in this law abiding community of Utah it would be The advocates of saloons say that will not Yet how is it that the saloon interests are so opposed to prohibition if it does not If as much or more liquor would be consumed under prohibitory laws than under laws freedom to the liquor then why do not the s come out and favor mJ r The fallacy of such a ej is obvious to Jenson speaks of au of prohibition in H. ing teaches me that prospered under its 1855 Maine use the language of Generals of the most dr and poorest states in the H there being seven distilleries i two breweries in Portland ak In 1855 there were ings banks in with than Ee years ago Maine adopted and today let us Maine with some other fertile and more favorably r for the development In 1902 there were t posited in the Maine sarc banks In Decent Maine had more banks t money deposited in them 1 with six times as In 1901 Maine had in 1 savings banks for every and Adjoining Maine is the stall more In ten recent ja Maine decreased her per while Masai increased her per In 18 per cent of the people oni own in 49 per Maine hag insane every M for every There are 77 prisoners per It in while in there are per We have heard much about how W can be obtained in GJ obtained ed that liquor can be Kansas and that exists in but noting and the counties where law are and where W pie are free from a most criminal of all alliances between saloon and Kansas in its or In the year counties in Kansas did no wi the state penitentiary gle Thirty-five fre their jails absolutely ty-four counties are without a twenty-five counts have no poor Kansas more money for education proportion to population than other For twenty jears one particular spot in was in the clutches a corrupt political machine perpetuated the liquor in defiance of state This is Kansas the people arose in their and wiped out the liquor notwithstanding the ire whiskey prophecies that the own would be killed when it But Kansas is not The first year a clean free saloon interference and the year that the saloons were Kansas in population and more new buildings erected Jlian Kansas the U The manufacturing products g creased The in the banks increased and the merchants had to The are satisfied with the and improved conditions id would fight any attempt to to a wet Jn the first year of resulted in a decrease B of more than 50 per lis would be Police cords show that most crimes are BE omitted or planned in ose saloons and the first months under prohibition iwed the largest building in the history of the investment of foreign capital over more the corresponding period saloons were in fn police records that drunkenness has debased 80 per cent under the Similar result has from the prohibition law in the various towns and cities fere has been tried buy instead of Money goes home to the wives and children that be-was spent over the find that their trade and people generally are better satisfied and would Ago back to the conditions the open drink As a matter of why not publish Ashton's JOSEPH S. In closing Peery the matter of why not publish Ashton's We would be glad to if Ash-ton will sent it to The |