| Show DEMOCRACY AND PROHIBITION In d fur for statewide o prohibition and ami making tucking that thu the chief issue of its eam airn th the Democratic party dues Ws so 80 a s a matter of expediency It hopes by its attitude on oit this thi question to win will its way wn to public office soil and cares ta nothing for tor the principle involved It was waR corn com common cornmon mon talk before the convention on among the Democratic leaders of or Salt Lake county that thai white while they were wre personally aUy opposed to prohibition they thoy tho I felt it would wo ld be expedient to place it in iu the state An attempt to provide in iu the for tor the submission of the tite question ion of oC wet or dry to the people c of or the state was AS voted by hr a 1 large IA majority It showed the trend of oC the Democratic mind It did di t not nut dare daft trust rut t its ita i own rank and file The Democratic party MIrt has baa never been for prohibition In some states state Abere h n Democracy has been in control it has haw enacted legislation 1 lation abolishing the licensed lice saloon and t the Democratic orators culled called it prohibition But nt it was wae prohibition did not prohibit blind tigers ami and bootleggers boot rs flourished fIor 1 because the Democracy never nover has hM ha been and never will wilt be 1 in sympathy with prohibition that prohibits As a matter of or feet fact prohibition that actually prohibits is an aim unknown quantity qu In Maine the Uto n party p ed a n prohibition law Jaw It never prohibited The government revenue from front the tho sale of liquors in Maine where a prohibitory law Jaw is in force is greater Ater than it is in status states where local option anti and strict regulation rules rulos All Maine was WM the closing of or the regulated r and arni the opening of liquor hells hell of every sort anti and description without police supervision the tho conse consequent quent loss Joss of or Me aMa C revenue and aud the resulting increase e in direct tn taxes axes cs William Jenning Jennin Bryan ryan the peerless lender the idol hid of ot the Nebraska Democracy was hurled into oblivion by liy 1 his friends for advocating county option supporting the Boy Doy Orator of t the Platte PlaUe for over oer fourteen years year the Nebraska Neb a Democrats abandoned hint him hit because ho stood for not prohibition but county option The keynote speech of or the convention yesterday cited e tc 1 the tho rosult r of the elections as a reason why the tho Democrats of Utah should take heart soil and hope for victory this his t fall The Tbt curious anomaly is i presented vf Of the thc Utah Democracy trying to ride rid into by h for an idea ilca opposition to which gave vo the reins of or government to the I h Maine raine Democracy for the first time in thirty years CArs CArsA As A the French say y it is if to laugh |
