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Show Betterment League Indorses Wootton Bill Miss liubeock Entrances Audience With Hlue lllr.l, Thero wns a good nttcjulaucu Wed. evening ut tho City Hall to hear Miss Maud May Ilabcock delivered a talk on tho messngo of, the "Uluo lllrd" of Mellorllnck. Ah depleted by this popular university professor, tho entrancing churactortt in this most popular story, seemed to nsauiiio actual life, and held spellbound spell-bound tho uudluiieo to tlm end. After tho talk, tho following resolution was presented and adopted almost unanimously: Hesolutloii Uellovlng that a majority of the peoplo of Utah aro In favor of stater wldo prohibition and tho elimination of tho liquor tralUc, either manufactured manufac-tured or licensed, within tho borders of tho stato of Utah, and realizing that this fnct was ovldonced by a vote on tho State Local Option Law al tho election held January 27, 1911. And Whereas, the stato lino of Utah on tho north, eitBt, south and won trnvorscB and almost uninhabitable desert with fow cities In or near snld stato line, nnd thcreforo tho statu U favorably and ndmlrnbly situated foi ' the Biiccos'Hful enforcement of stnte-wldo stnte-wldo prohibition; and nlso In vlow o whnt Is known ns tho Webb emigres slonnl Law, which prohibits tlio trans portatlou by common enrrtora of In toxlcntlng liquors from u "wot" state to a "dry"stato. Now thoreforo, wo tlio Executive Commltto and members of tho Amerl con IJork Civic llettormout League In mtiBB meeting ussembled Fobruary 11, 1915, do petition and horoby urgo the mombers of tho Sonnto mid Houbo of j lUproHontntlvcs of tho Legislature of tho Stato of Utah now In sosslon at 8 Salt Lako City, to pass, and cuuso to i beeomo a law tho State-Wldo Prohlbl tlon Hill, Introduced In tho Scnato by Senator John II. Wootton. CLIFFORD YOUNG, Chalrmun. JOHN HUNTER, Secretury. CojiIoh of tho resolution will bo cut to Governor Win, Spry and to both branches of the Stato Legislature. |