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Show PROHIBITION KNOCKED OUT. And so prohibition ifl dead. Tho Senate Sen-ate knocked it on tho head yostcrday and put it to sleep for the session. The Senate committee on manufactures and commerce, to which tho Cannon bill enacting prohibition as passed by the ITouse had been referred, reported adversely ad-versely yesterday pn tho bill. There was some struggle on tho part of tho prohibition forces, but theso wore so do-cidedly do-cidedly in the minority that the struggle strug-gle effected nothing. Tho voto for the adoption of tho majority report, tins adoption killing the bill, was twelve. The voto opposed to the report was six. So tho Utah Senate, made up of eighteen eight-een members, was all prosont. The vote being two to ono against prohibition, the hopo that any prohibition bill can go through tho Senato is now absolutely absolute-ly vain. ' Senators Badger, Bullcn, Hulaniski, nydo, Kuchler, Marks, Scely, Scvy, Benner X. Smith, Johu Y. Smith, Stookey, and Gardner (president of tho Senate), voted ayo on adopting tho report re-port which killed tho prohibition bill. Senators Brinkerhoff Burton, (who changed his voto to aye in order to move for a reconsideration nt a later day,) norsley, Miller, Williams, and "Wilson, voted against the committee report re-port and in favor of prohibition. And thus ends the prohibition furore for this session. The unholy combination entered into by the liquor men on the one side and the church politicians on tho other, the latter undoubtedly having the approval of President Joseph V. Smith, carried tho Republican party to success in this county at the election last November. A combination such as that, however, has within it elements ox contention and weakness that, were certain to develop later on, and now they have indeed developed. de-veloped. Tho church wing, with an appearance of firmness that is more fictitious than real, has tho House in its grasp, to all appearances. And yet, as we are credibly credi-bly informed, fully half of those who voted for prohibition would vote against it if it came really to the test of enacting enact-ing the bill. The church Republicans in the House were unanimous in passing the bill, this unanimity being because of the well-grounded idea that tho Senate Sen-ate would kill prohibition when it came to voto upon it. If the Senate had been understood to bo in favor of prohibition then prohibition would not have carried in tho House. The church played a double game throughout in all this matter, mat-ter, pretending to the orthodox ministers minis-ters and to the Christian community that it was in favor of prohibition when it was not. The church organ began the fraudulent outgiving on this proposition propo-sition by claiming that the October conference con-ference of the Mormon church had pronounced pro-nounced in favor of prohibition. We easily showed, however, that the conference con-ference had done nothing of the kind. And then, the church organ proceeded to boost for prohibition on tho strength of Apostle TIeber J. Grant and his humbug hum-bug claims that the president of the church and eleven of tho Twelve wore with him working for prohibition. This claim of Apostlo Grant's, however, was fraudulent all through, because there is no evidence whatever, aside from his biased word, that President Smith is for prohibition, or that the body of the Twelve are for prohibition, bvory sign, on the contrary, points in precisely the opposite direction. Undoubtedly, President Presi-dent Smith is against prohibition, and undoubtedly the majority of the Twelve are also against it. And then, what a farce it is for He-ber He-ber J. Grant to bo howling for the passage pas-sage of a prohibition law! He is a man who has boasted of disobeying such law as displeased him. Ho is tho man who defiod the law and who blatantly boasted of such defiance. President Joseph Jo-seph F. Smith did the same. President Francis M. Lyman testified under the questioning of Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, directly aud positively, that he was living a life defiant of the laws of God and of man, and intended to continue con-tinue so to live. And the rigid New England moralist, Senator Hoar, gasped, "He says yes." No more ghastly horror hor-ror could "have been placed upon the mind of Senator Hoar than that shock ing, blasphemous, admission made by men who claimed to be the vicegerents of God. upon earth. And the idea of such men coming to tho front demanding demand-ing prohibition in the face of their lawless law-less lives, of their contempt for statute and for civil govornment, was ono of tho unnatural incidents of the time. It is the duty of every loyal citizen to have respect for and to obey the law, and when we see any law-breaker come out in full cry for the enactment of a law to govern the conduct and appetites of other men while ho himself blatantly proclaims that he defies the law as to his own life and appetites, then there is an anomaly presented to the community com-munity that is worthy of the denunciation denuncia-tion of all upright citizenship. It is in-j in-j deed a scandalous thing to see these professional law-breakers out in full cry for tho enactment of statutes, when they defy statutes at their own will and pleasure. Suppose a prohibition statute were passed, and the keepers of saloons should evade and defy it. Would not such saloon keepers be in precisely the same class as these polygamists who, to satisfy their own perverted lusts, defy equally the laws of their God and the State governing sexual morality and the marriage ties? But such a partisanship in crime between law-defying polyga-mists polyga-mists and law-evading liquor-sellers would be quite worthy of tho partisanship partisan-ship in political jobbers and corruption that was entered into last, fall between the church leaders on tho one hand and the liquor dealers on the other for the boosting of tho bogus Republican party into power in this county. What tho church interests want in this liquor business is prceisoly what those interests have wantod from of old in Utah; that is, they wanted to control this traffic themselves, sell nil they could, and got tho profit out of it for themselves, and tho morals of it could go hang, so far as they arn concerned. And if thejr saw nny possible wny to devise de-vise a law whereby tho church institutions institu-tions could sell liquor and no other establishments es-tablishments could do so, both Houses of tho Legislature would pass a bill giving giv-ing that idea effect in a day. But the thing is impossible. Representative Cannon showed the real animus underlying under-lying tho whole matter on tho last day of tho consideration of his prohibition bill in tho House, when ho wanted relief re-lief from prohibition to tho extent that ho would havo one dispensary in each county for the said and distribution of liquor. That dispensary in this county, of course, would bo the Z. C. M. I. drug store. In Utah county it would bo tho Smoot drug store; and so it would go throughout tho State. The Z. C. M. I. branches evcr3-whcro would be the liquor headquarters, and there tho liquor would bo sold and nowhero else, provided pro-vided .the churchmen could have their way. Every idea in this would not be in the least to suppress the salo of liquor, but to foster it, always provided tho profits thereof wont into their own pockots, and tho morals or othics of it all would bo callously left to others to discuss, as is so much the hierarchic custom. On tho other hand, tho liquor interests inter-ests want as littlo restraint as possiblo in the doaling out of their -products to the community. Especially do tho brewers brew-ers desire to havo a frco hand in the opening of retail resorts and branches of their breweries for tho sale of their beer. Aud in every way tho political interests of tho liquor dealers demand the utmost freedom. Tho liquor dealers in all this can no more be granted their wish than tho church leaders on tho other hand can be granted theirs. And as tho unholy combination that these two evil influences havo entered into are mutually destructive of each other and irreconcilable, the community at large thus gets relief from tho excesses of both, or will do so under normal conditions. con-ditions. The public interest in this wholo mat-tor mat-tor is that the liquor sales shall bo rogu-lared rogu-lared as closely aud as cleanly as possible, possi-ble, that the number of saloons shall be cut down, and that those who do sell shall pay the utmost possiblo for their licenses. Tho number of saloons should bo Iimitod, and tho setting up of agencies agen-cies by tho brewers throughout tho city for tho salo of their beer should be absolutely ab-solutely prohibited. Thoro should bo nothing of that kind allowed anywhere in tho city, and ever3' saloon keeper who keeps a disorderly, noisy house should havo his liceuso revoked. "Every saloon keeper who allows husbands and fathers to carouse on Saturday nights in his placo and spend the wages he has received, whilo his wife and children arc waiting outside on the sidewalk for him to come and buy food for the ensuing en-suing week with his money, should have his license revoked. The strict regulation, regula-tion, the clenu regulation, and tho or-derh' or-derh' salo of liquor should bo strictly enforced, and such evils as comuionl' flow from the traffic should be eliminated elimi-nated to' the utmost extent possible. And WUU IU1.1 tlLliL. U1JU aUVCIU I UlilllillJUU, this close limiting of the number of saloons, sa-loons, this shutting off of the forcing of beer upon tho ;public merely to get rid of excess stock made in the breweries, brew-eries, will do much to eliminate the evils of tho traffic. We do not believe that any further legislation at all is needed so far as the State is concerned. We think that the-communities the-communities can handle this matter under the present statutes in quite a satisfactory manner. In most of the counties in this State prohibition would bo the rulo, because licenses would be refused. In those counties or cities where licenses aro granted, tho law is ample for regulation now. And so far as the cities are concerned, there can be such clauses put into the' licenses granted as will cover everything needed for severe and strict regulation. And' we believe that eveiy community would bo content if the Legislature would do nothing more on the prohibition question ques-tion at this session, and it certainly will have plenty to do without taking any further concern about it. |