Show A DEMOCRAT IN REPUBLICAN ATTIRE i POSING p OSING as ae a Republican B D F Grant is going through the state as first aid to the Democratic party preaching statewide prohibition By circulars and by h word of mouth on the stump and otherwise he is en endeavoring endeavoring to show that the Democratic party is the friend of tem temperance t and that the Republican party is the friend of intemperance He declares that ho favors the principles of tho Republican party so BO far as it favors protection to the tho industries of Utah yet he be is trying to elect n a Democratic c and aDd a Democratic United States senator on a purely local ISAM ia ue Grants attitude on the stump is in strict accordance with his action 1 in ia compiling and prating pr the circulars ars Words of Wisdom which ha he het hes t l f circulated o in the tabernacle grounds during the last meeting of conference confer conference confere s ence e This circular bore boro the pictures of the first presidency of tho the Mor Mormon Mormon mon church and it endeavored to convince the members of the church that those thOle church officials favored statewide prohibition It tried to give g j this circular the color of being a part of the conference proceedings and andt t endeavored to show that these Se leading men favored statewide prohibition when it is known that they the do not His methods are disreputable and it itis 7 iff is dirty politics of a kind kin that will gain him little Grant tells all his audiences that Iw lw was waa a saloon keeper at one time Of course he was but who cares whether he was or not I The Tho twaddle in his circular Have you a boy to sparer spare f is ridiculous f nd does not stand staid four square with villi common sense If he were pleading j i to t save the youth of Utah from the evils of intemperance he would have no opposition So are we all Grant knows unscrupulous as his present methods are that local option and strict regulation have been more effective tive five all over the Union in minimizing ing the evils of the saloon than the j I statewide prohibition He Ho knows that an attempt to toI enforce I statewide prohibition in a community that favors the saloon does docs more I harm to the community than the regulated saloon Nobody favors the I sort ort of saloon Grant was accused of running and nobody favors any kind of ef a saloon woon anywhere if the people do not want it itOn itI itOn I On the cn of temperance we do not take issue with Grant or any other renegade Republican Some of us never Bever ran a saloon Some of us I never made a dollar by doing what Grant says he did Nor have havo we wo ever everad had ad to reform He makes the same mistake that many better men than thant t i he lie aja aFa making he figures that statewide prohibition makes an ideal situ situation i yet pet he admits in every speech he makes that statewide prohibition I does dees not Bot prohibit His Hi methods are disreputable and are those of the char charlatan chari charlatan i latan The experience of every state in the Union that has tried to stop the I sale of liquor r by state law has been that it does nothing of f the kind After A ter J I years of prohibition in Maine the voters by a large majority t have havo declared that statewide prohibition is ia a failure and that they want 4 thing else etee A community that wants the sale of liquor within its bor bori i tiers dars wilt will have hJ vo it and if cannot cann ot have the licensed saloon it will support 1 t tIte blind tiger infinitely worse than the open regulated saloon I The Republican party believes that every community should shot d have dust gust want it wants wante on tho liquor question If the fhe sentiment of the community for then th n the voters will have their chance to say so within days da S altar eitor fhe We adjournment nt of the next nat legislature and the senti sentiment sentiment sentiment ment of r o community being behind the movement it will be a success If the th majority of voters in the community want the saloon they will have haveit 1 it under high license lice se and strict regulation The Tb Republican t platform provides and pledges the next nest legis legislature legislature legislature lature if Republican to enact a law absolutely prohibiting and forbid forbidding forbidding forbidding ding the sale salo of liquor in each and every county in iu the state outside the incorporated i cities That means the prohibition of the sale of liquor every everyplace everyplace place in the state Itata where there is ia no police protection A law will be bo passed providing for a wet or dry election in each e ch city in the state within ninety days daya after aft the adjournment of the legislature Each city 1 I I will decide for itself whether it shall or shall ahall not have the saloon Public j sentiment will make mako this decision effective affective whichever way the people rule 1 In those cities ci es where the voters decide they want the saloon the saloon I will be strictly regulated I The Republican solution of the liquor question will give the people of I Utah U h the tho right and opportunity to govern themselves on this question i One city a will not be able to say to another you shall or you shall not have haTS saloon The people of each city will decide that for themselves The Methodist Episcopal church in its general conference in 1908 1903 placed this in its discipline for the guidance of the members of that de do denomination denomination nomination We are in favor of ot reclaiming never to be surrendered every i foot of at territory which can be wrested from the liquor traffic as asan asan an additional basis of operations for tor further aggression which shall shan ji not cease until the world shall know no more of this traffic To this end in the light of recent experience and the practical practical results ts where according to the tho Episcopal address states which have been notoriously unfriendly to any ny temperance legislation except general license have passed local option laws which have I t been accepted by county after county until almost the whole state stale has banished the saloon we recommend that our people participate 1 In every eve wise movement for lor local prohibition commonly known as I local option as a step toward statewide prohibition That is the stand taken by the Methodist Episcopal church chu It recognizes ulme in the local option idea a 11 stronger force for temperance than lies lien in inthe inthe inthe t the statewide t prohibition on method Whose judgment do you prefer B F IT Grant or the consensus of opinion of the great leaders of the Methodist Episcopal church |