Show S S JUST WHAT THE GOVERNOR SAID In one of his messages to the legislature last win winter winter winter ter Governor Spry stated that any county or city or town in the state of Utah could get absolute prohibition prohibition prohibition tion whenever desired and that under existing laws The truth of his statement is verified today In many sections of Utah In Springville and In Nephi es especially this has been proved The Independent of the former town and the Record of ot the latter both publish reports of municipal action absolutely for forbidding forbidding forbidding bidding the sale of intoxicants within those limits In Nephi the rule runs even farther and forbids the giving away of liquor It is a blow at the harm hann harmful harmful ful tul practice of treating And In no other particular does the new ordinance deserve a greater credit Probably no one feature of our American habit Is responsible for more of ot Injury than Is the custom of treating The thing has a tremendous hold on the people Men who can resist the urgings of their own appetites men whose sense senS of propriety will prevent their drinking fall before the courteous cou ous social urging to take a drink And It is a peculiar weakness of our national character that the man treated instantly feels the obligation upon him to treat In return The habit Is to be deprecated and In Nephi it will not hereafter be fashionable or safe Every city and town In the state that wants pro prohibition prohibition prohibition can get It now As the governor stated the laws are already ample |