Show w I IN UTAH II AND THE DOUBLE X Y YI 7 I I Whatever may uy a be M uncertain i 4 about p there thele b bno J no doubt but that an earnest and andI f I r I probably effort efort wW will HI b be beS bernad f made mad at this Fe Ion to enact a state statewide S i It wide prohibition law Jaw If such a law Jaw aw ii Is Isi f i I I Utah alone alon of oe the mountain I h states statE will m b bt an arid region reulon fer for the UM ther r drinker r rU i I The h hf re I l hi remarkable In ta InI I I 1 r good many man as Until within tin the I U I 4 t I 0 L past INist few da day ap it had been supposed I I I f j that l I legislation s on the tiKo subject WOUld WouW I i k tak take the fonn of r loral 1081 option t t r rf f t L I II P Pl Pt ki by county COunt boundaries In the state If e h campaign the Republicans ana ignored th the i I f IL t jj Pf matter so an far f ar as a platforms and 4 0 f t speeches were ware er concerned and In his of official 0 I I If capacity 00 h the new governor hen hae i hi l 1 t i refrained from committing 1 I It t t I The t bre not pledged pI by nay any all H t state stafe action of their organization but heft II f 1 t some orne of them were wore chosen thoen thO R on en 4 1 I i Indicating rotes for local option or pro prohibition If Ii I Tho rho Salt Lake county Democracy Dem c I 1 4 I r I J j racy r pledged pl ged In Us Rn platform t to toI toL i I local and bd aeme dle effort won was w made f lr r L t to tl force foree the Issue Irme In the campaign t rl pa i flack Back of or the position was wa wasI Ii Jt I r J an understanding between the Republican Ji 1 j lican Hean leaders their official organ and andI 1 I the th lie i IK interests that no ne legislation f r would woul be on the subject How that understanding was us s reached I I and what it ot tot the tIN brewers and sa na saloon Mj namon j j loon mon men la Is pretty prett well ell known So far tar faran farI J I i an 84 a the went ent it was wa effective i 1 i and the Republican pledge t keep Ii I hands off was wan kept But Dut now no that t t the t I I election Is over and the legislature ture Is IsI I I t I j I about to convene there is in little pros pro prospect prof I f j t that the thO promises made will be Ix t V 1 kept What are pledges anyway as sa j j 1 t I I I between b teen politicians And how ho could f 1 the th liquor Interests ts expect the Republican lican Uan machine to remember more than J 1 r j I sixty days das alter after ejection any a prowls Ise q even for a consideration that ran into J the thousands 4 i The Herald believes that statewide prohibition will prove a failure In com corn communities like Salt Lake where whose public sentiment Is not likely to uphold ef efforts efI efforts I i forts to enforce such sueh a law It believes rj further that there Is 18 a certain Injustice Injustice j 1 J tice tIe In any ah measure which wh lt will wipe f tut ut at one stroke property and business Interests worth millions of oC dollars without without with without l I out any an time Um or opportunity being given gln n to prepare for fer or a tl change In conditions The whole business is III 4 of course permitted only by b suf sufI i I but in licensing JI It U and IUM oj allowing the accumulation Got at f capital in inUs Us Itt transaction tran the commonwealth has ha 1 i Incurred the th obligation to be fair and andy y Just in whatever measure it ft may ny 7 take tak j and justice in this case cape would demand at least time enough to permit of or the lb f disposal dl of property and adjustment of ef conditions which will follow follo such a aI I OU enactment I i ir i hH ial 11 jn b a Lla law th J liquor t Interests may credit themselves les leswith with a large part of the responsibility As The Herald has said on several eral oc ocI I c caMons as Ions the tho maintenance of tough sa so saloons sofr fr loons Icons the Red Bed Onions and Pink rink Cab Cabbages Cabbages cabbages bages and their like has done more to toi i t prohibition sentiment than all AU AUthe the temperance orators Further the Interference of the breweries and sa saloons salI a lI loons in political affairs has lia brought its i inevitable punishment No Xo one fa to familiar with the circumstances will shed any tears over oer the double roSS cross that I has ja been cen handed to the liquor interests by their Republican confreres they the In Il Just such a fate when they sought protection at a n price and de do delivered livered ered their part of the consideration liow iLow will prohibition affect Utah In I some same some parts of or the state particularly in inthe inI Inthe I the agricultural and cattle raising dis districts disI I trials it will make little difference In InA 4 A Salt Sail Lake and the mining camps the immediate effect will be something of or a cataclysm In city such a law will into Inti i th market at once some 1 t ir vr M a hundred d locations ons for bus ir f ny n of oC them In 11 I the th heart of the th IP h t mn n district Raid and some of them I among the best locations s in the city I it l will vIiI cut down don d n tho the revenue revenuer 4 r ft i I c 4 f I I i about a year probably more It wilt Will add materially to the receipts of the express companies and nd the burl busi business ness of ot outside liquor houses The com corn compensations compensations claimed for tor It are re the re reduction reduction of crime the betterment of so m social eta cial conditions an increase In lri hi the le Ic legitimate earning and spending pending capaci capacity ty of the classes that have been bei wont to waste money meney on Oft liquor Whether It wilt will increase or lower the value of property pro is conjectural and so far ae as the prohibition advocates are eon con concerned it U is I immaterial We believe that a local option law which would permit each geographical division to express its own wishes on the subject would be much more practicable better b advised and would wouW promise a better chance of or rigid en enforcement An experiment in that di dl direction would very soon Si on prove the de do desirability desirability or undesirability of absolute prohibition and it would make possible possible ble Immediate prohibition wherever the sentiment of the community was In fa favor favor a ayes vor yes of It Prohibition in the stale in including eludIng the dUes cities and camps is certain to invite a disregard for the law Ja i which Is the concomitant of distasteful sumptuary legislation and m In fn the Ion 1 long longrun 1 run bring about a tl reaction against the very end sought by the prohibitionists However if the powers that be have ha ordained prohibition it will mil be attained d dand and when It comes e mos the state will mil have hae an opportunity to demonstrate for itself whether It is desirable or dis disastrous astroW In the meanwhile the tho lIQuor Interests which fared forth so gaily In Inthe inthe the Ute Republican campaign as cham of the Republicans have ample opportunity for reflection on the ingratitude in ingratitude gratitude of machines and the charac character ter tor of the politicians and the newspaper newspaper per pee that refuse Ter to stay bought |