Show Our Idea o Temperance Or Uncle Sam Versus State-Wide Prohibition The Deseret News and many of the country papers are endeavoring io revive the state wide prohibition It appears that the Anti-saloon League Bureau of Publicity sends to these different papers a lot of but plausible and that these papers publish them without thought or due Our Stand on We know that when the Utah Independent talks temperance we are accused of being in league with the Federal Bunch and the saloon-keepers' but please remember that there is not one person connected with the Utah Independent that ever takes a glass of beer or any other intoxicating liquor over a saloon bar or anywhere Also that no cigarette or liquor dealer's advertisements have appeared in this We in boycotting and in teaching our children to boycott the We do not believe that any people were ever made moral by You may make stringent laws for a but it is only home environments and proper education that give them common The Attractive Home The If you make your your your church and your innocent amusements more attractive than the or the pool room or the cigarette you need not worry about your sons becoming The good attractive the good the good church with the proper amusements are worth a thousand times more than all the prohibitory laws that were ever placed on our statute Our Stand on Now that we have informed our readers how we stand on the temperance question we believe we can to a better advantage answer the state wide prohibition Our Reasons We do not believe in state wide prohibition because the State of Utah is a or product of the United State The which is par declares that the selling of intoxicating liquors is a legitimate and for the small sum of per annum it will grant the privilege to any one to sell liquors anywhere in the United We are opposed to state wide prohibition because it is Article 14 of the constitution of the United States State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege or the immunities of a citizen of the United nor shall any state deprive any person of or property without due process of There are thousands of temperate citizens of the especially the Jews and who drink beer and wine as pleasant there are thousands of others who are sickly and they drink wine and other stimulants on a doctors Ninety-five doctors out of every hundred in including the will state that in certain cases the moderate use of wine or beer is good for the Personal To deny to a citizen of the United States the right to consume anything that will do him good and not injure his is a blow at his personal privileges and his personal It is the abuse and not the use of alcoholic drinks that causes the There is probably not one male or in the United but will take a drink of beer or whiskey if he or she so In fact all Jews drink-in and yet there is less drunkenness among the Jews than among any other there are fewer drunkards among the Jews than among the clergy or the temperance Prohibit There are thousands of people killed every year from the immoderate use of but to prohibit the manufacture and sale of gunpowder would be The Mormons believe that even the moderate use of tea and coffee is unwise and injurious to Suppose therefore that Utah should pass a law prohibiting the sale of tea and except for sacramental or mechanical the first sitting of the Supreme Court would declare such a law The excessive use of tea or coffee is far more injurious to health than the moderate use of wine or The immoderate use of intoxicants immediately shows itself on the and the temperance people throw up their hands in holy But the immoderate use of tea or coffee may have equally bad hut more obscure and chronic dyspeptics who are and cross to husband or may result from tea and coffee and such persons are likely to bring into the and quarrelsome yet the prohibitionists do not do to prohibit tea and Prohibition Does Not We are opposed to prohibition because it does not it never will prohibit as long as Uncle Sam continues the liquor traffic by the issuance of revenue licenses to Suppose Utah should law prohibiting and sale of f within her Utah brewers and could move to Evanston 4 to any border town jn wv Nevada or 2 open business They J simply give the license which they now pay to m the collectors in other states These brewers and would keep the same travel salesmen in Utah that they These salesmen could from house to house taking orden for wine or These orders they would send to firms outside of the and the wine and beer thus ordered would be shipped in original packages to the purchaser without breaking the The liquor dealers can ship beverages to any state by the carload to distributing point and deliver it from this common point and would thus save Buys in A person who is usually satisfied with one glass of beer would buy a whole case when he could get beer in no other Instead of buying one drink of whiskey a man would order a a a keg or a Any person can put in a standing order to have shipped to weekly or monthly by express or a package of whiskey or a case of wine or though he lives in a prohibition and no law can stop The Supreme Court of the United States has passed on every phase of the interstate traffic in and in every ease has de- in favor of the liquor deal- even to his having the distributing warehouses mentioned If an individual desires beer or Uncle Sam plainly tells him he can have all he wants if he will send his order outside of the state for A Prohibition During June and July in 1898 the editor of the Utah Independent was in a prohibition town in a prohibition Early in June a liquor dealers agent went through the town orders for wine Several cases of beer wine and whiskey came on July The purchasers went to the depot and paid for On the morning of the of July they took the stuff to a grove near and indulged in the greatest drunk and debauchery ever witnessed in Some young boys were brought home dead Tried and Iowa tried prohibition for a number of years but it was a That state returned to a licensed Vermont tried prohibition with similar Today Vermont has less and the best license laws of any One of the principal arguments of The W. B. Shepherd nd other walking-delegates of the anti-Saloon League is If more liquor is in a prohibition state why do the liquor dealers and brewers fight The reason is that there are many law-abiding citizens in Utah who are brewers or dealers and these people do not desire either to break the law or to remove from the in order to do nor can they afford to lose the money t they have invested in breweries and other They would prefer to do a smaller legitimate and legal business than a larger and illegal Another reason is they do not desire to have their them of their own state deprive while Uncle Sam will allow outside brewers and liquor dealers to supply the demand that the home firms should State wide prohibition will never prohibit as long as Uncle Sam allows and receives revenue from the liquor V. S. |