Show PUT US EIGHT IF WE ARE WE WILL PUBLISH YOUR A few people refuse to take the Utah Independent because we do not declare for state-wide pro- Such a spirit of intolerance is Dot good for the individual who is so or for the community in which he The Utah Independent is a temperance The editor and all of his constituents do not drink intoxicating or use tobacco in any and never have used We do not think that an individual has any right to interfere with or tell another what he shall or shall not drink or r Two Intemperance is a menace to state-wide J lion is a menace to personal Slavery imprisonment for debt Connecticut blue anti-free speech Salem witchcraft laws and any and all laws that abridge or interfere with the individual of a when he does not injure himself or his are all cut from a narrow piece of cloth and will not stand What Is For one individual to sell other a glass of beer or no more of a crime for a person to sell another a glass of tea or They are all luxuries to a greater or less and under our constitution no state has a right to prohibit such A Prohibition my prohibition friends will exclaim Do not drunken people commit and crimes that they would abhor when they were We grant argument to be A horse would not be stolen if he was securely guarded or locked A merchant would not have his goods stolen if he kept them all out of a person would not be waylaid if he did not go on the a person would not get drunk if he could not buy a coffee toper would not get dyspepsia if the sale of coffee was The Abuse and Not the It is the abuse and not the use of anything that causes the It is no more wrong to take one glassi of beer or wine than it is to drink one cup of coffee or But when people become swinish and gorge themselves till they are a public then the law can step in and punish Jews Drink and They Are Every male and drinks wine or beer as pleasant and there are fewer paupers and criminals among the Jews than any other race of We have no more right to tell a Jew that he cannot sell beer or wine to his brother Jew than we have to tell a Mormon or a Gentile he cannot sell chocolate or soda to his Easily State-wide prohibition laws are so easily broken and there are so many people who enjoy breaking the law that state-wide prohibition is a Any boy or man or in a prohibition state or town can send orders to Cooper or to any other mail order or to a d ery or wh isky m erch have bee wine and whisky sent them hy breaking any so-called prohibition and then laugh at the prohibitionist for his weak The prohibitionist will argue that does away with the open saloon and a loafing place for men and is true as far as the men are but we now have laws that pretend to keep the boys out of Boys whose parents allow them to roam the streets unrestrained are seldom found in Such boys are the coming saloon bums and In pleasant weather they congregate on the streets and annoy pedestrians f and in the winter time they can be found in the cigar the pool rooms or puffing cigarettes and listening to and telling obscene and lewd Does Not Reach the Prohibition does not reach the root of the drink evil or the It is the careless father and mother who do not care for their and they are assisted by the cigarette the pool room and the rowdy men The Salt Lake police have been called upon to suppress a gang of young hoodlums who nightly on the corner of Sixth avenue and F who insult and annoy the Those bad boys probably were never in a and yet they all will be saloon bums in ten years from Take care of the small boys and girls now and you will do one hundred times more for true temperance than will in passing laws that are so easily fj |