| Show t THE EFFECT IN SALT LAKE l t 11 TT T i is b bantly rey possible po that in the tho ourse of the present campaign with its ite it L of ideas and of a and many per par perSO sow SO i have hv not thought what the effect of prohibition would b bon ha be beIt S on Salt It Lake City Cit It is barely possible that many persons resident in d Salt Sk Like Lake have hue never visited a state where thore there was waa a statewide prohibition prohibitions p JAW Jw in in operation opera Oll and aad do not know bow what the effect of it is especially in in the s towns of the state c The enactment of a law Jaw such sueh as the Democratic party proposes for Utah l r would put it beyond the tha power of the city of o Salt Lake to regulate the liquor s traffie traffic w within hia ita its borders Idealists ts will WilP answer that statement by saying a tW wider Ruder statewide prohibition there will be bo no DO liquor traffic in Salt Lake a Oty ot Of 01 0 course ou e that statement is not true There is i scarcely 5 anybody o y in Ia intha t the tha oit that has baa attained sufficient years to be entitled to vote but that t wilt will have avo to admit that liquor is going to be sold in Salt Lake t As the metropolis of this intermountain country as the base of supplies s for far or the mi of the state and of Nevada and as the capital of Utah I p all sorts and ud of men man are going to come to Salt Lake and they are aregO f gO g to drink liquor They T are going to get that liquor some way in some to t Everybody body knows that there ore are stringent laws Jaws and stringent city o ty I that Uta tha sam nl nf of in Salt Rail on nn vat vt linn or t I is is Ia arid here Mn OB Oft o that day Ii lIer r that there is i going to be liquor sold in Salt Lake and the theman man MU ar or woman who thinks that statement stAt ment is broad of the mark is too much of an idealist t to attempt to t convert Liquor will be sold in Salt Lake and andI I if it is is not net B t sold sod in iR saloon licensed and regulated under the broad light of Bean and oa on the t principal thoroughfares of the tho city it is going to be old sold oldin I in the tM beak b t alleys aU in the side aide streets in livery stables everywhere that men I without principle and ud a need for money think they th y can turn tum a dollar by engaging in ia the traffic traffie The youth who get a drink in the open saloon J he dare sot BOt be seen going ping into the place or who would bo be refused by the liquor dealer dalec will go into these the liquor hells bells that are as inevitable leader ad a statewide prohibitory pro Jaw law as liS death itself l lUnder Under a statewide prohibition law it will win be ho h an absolute impossibility to regulate te the tM places They will have no standing in law Jaw The public publio officer who takes takee air any u of ot these t ese places l i is bound by his oath of office to tow elow w then u they are beyond the pale of the tho law lav He can exorcise exercise no supervision on Oa over oyer then thee the a because their deeds are deeds of darkness and they must either flee from the Ute sight t of an officer or they must bribe him to have some lomb serious impediment ont to his sight eight Does anyone suppose that an officer of the law will try to keep bep order and enforce decency in a liquor hell that pays poy li hI hIWay ft to t close cloae C Oie his eyes Even the statewide prohibition idealist who is net bound boand by the rules ruIe of logic that t at must limit the thoughts of ordinary aerials must admit that the proposition in itself is absurd Which do DU vu U think is the oat ost probable murder or debauchery in an open regulated saloon with a policeman just outside or just around the 1 corner comer or that sort of crimes in 8 a vile dan deo in a back alley to which men are 1 J f admitted adR only oa on aloe eloM eIo e scrutiny SOl ami aud ad with their retreat so 5 hidden biddon that deviltry I 1 is ia encouraged the ue p shu lm 1111 of the officer crossed with Avith banknote a The Theall i answer all to that question will destroy de trox a great deal of sophistry that is floating about BOW DOW set sat on en foot fo t by a joT job lot Jot of disappointed politicians who want wanta a chance hance to live lire without working Salt Lake does doe not want to find itself in the same position that is now DOW engaging the attention of the of Memphis Tennessee Tennessee Tenn i ii j i laboring under a statewide prohibition law The law was forced upon the cities of the state tate by the country districts It was passed by a n Demo Democrat I crat crati Cla and signed I by a Democratic governor and the he enforce enforcement i ment of it is in Democratic hands Naturally the drinking places in Memphis do not Dot rist t ao so far as the Ute law is concerned Tho The city cannot c i regulate them because its public officials dare not admit that there thoro are saloons when they r their existence they must close oboe them as the he V law requires they shall do V Several days ago a law and order league lo gue was organized in Memphis to close the saloons It waa wu wa discovered d that there thero are arc too saloons in Memphis and nd that they are running every day The law arid and order league asked a aV federal judge to dose close them and had to have hare as plaintiffs some somo Memphis V property owners who do not Dot reside in the tho state Those property owners said nid that at these saloons injured the value of their property And their is ia little reason to doubt that statement The sort of saloons i that would be run under a statewide prohibition system outside the pale of if the law would certainly damage il be e property in their immediate ter territory Few Pew men would want their families to live Jive near to the sort of I liquor hells heBs that statewide prohibition encourages Think of this situa altun situation j tion in a statewide prohibition state I Going into the federal court to have the saloons closed in the city of Memphis I I Of course the law and order league get any help from the J city officials These latter knew know that the sentiment among the voters of Memphis favored these saloons and aDd they did not propose to endanger their political futures future by running counter to the tho wishes of their sovereign lords I I the tho people The state officials knew the same thing and would not Dot inter interfere interI I I fore fere ere although there are in tOO the state of Tennessee the tha men who I were largely instrumental in having haTing that statewide prohibition law passed I So it became to go to a federal judge whose position is hold held holdby by life tenure and who has no need Deed to fear the tho temper of the people I But the moat most astonishing ing fact was that there thore were wore TOO open saloons I in Memphis That is one ene saloon for persons men ama women l and children In Salt Lake where the tile liquor question is certainly goner gonor bandied handled there kt is only one saloon for br each cadi persons p It would scarcely seem teem that tho people would want an nn experience such as that which this Tennessee city ci is having If public opinion in Memphis were against these theBe saloons they would be bo wiped out quick as ns wink Public sentiment can ean do as u it likes and will do so If Ii public sentiment in Salt SaltI I take Lake is i against the tIt saloon it can wipe it out and anti see that the laws are enforced lint But public opinion will have to be bo discovered |
