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Show WHY WAIT SO LONG? On Tuesday evening the Ogden Standard (being an evening paper) had the following very curious leading editorial edi-torial under the headline, "After the Election:" Now that the election is virtually over and Ogden ie about to register a strong vote for ihc "wets," this paper calls attention at-tention lo the fact that tho Inw hud been so framed that prohibition was mado impossible even though the people had voted "dry " The prohibitionists labored hard under the tremondous handicap han-dicap of advocating a measure which, if voted Into effect, would have been inoperative in-operative and have dono nothing to lessen the evils of the liquor traffic, and might have brought about an extreme ex-treme revulsion of sentiment which would have given to the true cause of temperance or prohibition a severe blow. The city is now under strict regulation and the trado Is so controlled that 'the most offensive features have been eliminated. elimi-nated. With continued rigid enforcement enforce-ment regulation may prove to be that which the "diys" were praying and voting vot-ing for without knowing, and that, finally, out of this agitation, may. come a condition pleasing to nil classes' concerned con-cerned In Improving Ogden. Tt. is not easy to see the candor" and fairness of a publication like that. It appears from the editorial that the Standard knew all the time that tho law had been sp framed that prohibition prohi-bition was made impossible, even though tho people had voted "dry," and yet the Standard withheld that information in-formation or opinion from its readers until the tinio when the election was virtually over. We submit that honesty hon-esty and fair dealing to its subscribers should have prompted, the Standard to state during the campaign the same thing that at puts forth as a fact and truiBm on tho evoning of election day, "when tho election was virtually over," There is no doubt but that tho opinion thus expressed by tho Standard on tho evoning of election day is correct. Tho Tribune has shown that fully sat various va-rious times during tho -compaign, by quotations from tho law. We havo shown also the vicious political bargain bar-gain made by tho Republican bosses, whoroby this bunko gnmo was worked upon tho pooplo in the interests of the liquor dealers. Ono of tho "moBt scandalous scan-dalous things in tho whole campaigu is this very thing now admitted by tho Standard, that tho Republican bosses and the newspapers under their control havo kept. a persistent silenco until tho election was virtually over as to tho bunko game that was being worked upon the poople. |