Show 1 I EDITORIALS BY BYTHE BYTHE THE PEOPLE PLEA FOR COLORED FOLK Editor The Telegram I 1 I. I read with interest and pleasure an article on Stop Lynching in your esteemed paper There is no necessity to travel South to see the injustice that is done the colored people Colored Colored Colored Col Col- ored boys and girls can go to high school and college spend all the money they can for education but there it ends No positions are open to them except the drudgery of at the whites What chance have they to make good anywhere Until the hypocrisy of ot so called justice justice justice jus jus- tice is eliminated and true Christianity Christian Christian- ity and fellowship established then and only then will the colored people gain the true and moral instinct Yours for tor justice for tor all E. E KRIEGER ABOUT PROHIBITION I Tooele Utah Oct 20 20 1916 Editor The Telegram Last Monday londay night at a a. Democratic rally in Tooele Simon Bamberger talking on the prohibition question stated that the next legislature would pass a prohibition bill as strong as Continued on page 5 Y EDl EDITORIALS BY PEOPLE I Continued n from page 4 I that of Idaho and pointing to himself I I said that the fhe governor would sign it I and it would go into effect August 1 I I 1917 His argument should have convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced the most skeptical in regard to his ills stand on the liquor question But Ithe I the Rt Republican county chairman Dr L L. A. A McBride asked Bamberger I Should the legislature pass an ineffective ineffective in in- in I effective prohibition law what would you do with it il Bamberger answered that in the event of such a law aw being passed by the lawmakers of Utah he would return it to that body pointing out the defects and ask that it be made effective and should they refuse to comply with his request h he would sign the one they did pass and then place the responsibility where it belonged be be- be longed The writer has come to the conclusion conclusion conclusion sion that Dr McBride has already conceded conceded conceded con con- ceded the election of Bamberger but expects a Republican legislature and andin andin andin in this event naturally anyone would expect an ineffective prohibition law for those passed by the Republicans in Utah for the last ten years have been I fakes except the one that bought a certain Salt Lake daily and the deal made by the federal bunch which was to keep Salt Salt Lake Lake and Ogden wet forten forten for forten ten years or until 1917 Yours truly TOM PLAT |