Show Utah as Lone Mecca for Bootleggers Lawbreakers Deplored by Attorney Utah as a mecca for bootleggers and racketeers Is visualized by Deputy Deputy Dep Dep- uty Attorney General S. S D. D Huffaker in the event repeal of both state and national prohibition is not voted on November 7 A vote against repeal in his opinion is a vote for continuance continuance continuo ance of ot the evils of the prohibition era People should realize that the federal f federal fed fed- eral government has spent millions of ot dollars annually in an attempt to enforce this unenforceable un un-Amer ican teen law he declared The Thc mone money has been wasted Intemperance has Increased public officials have been corrupted disrespect for all laws has been fostered The liThe only benefit ben nt from prohibition is that which has accrued to the bootlegger bootlegger boot boot- legger and th tle racketeer Where one saloon sold old palatable liquor openly a dozen speakeasies now supply poison polson covertly and at a tremendous profit profitS The swan song of ot prohibition Is being sung throughout the nation Utah must join the other states in expunging this foolish law from its s constitution I If It Utah refuses to vote for repeal It will become the lone lonc refuge forthe forthe for the bootlegger and his ilk the mecca t J of oC the lawbreaker and the laughing laughingstock laughingstock laughingstock stock of the nation I It Is unfortunate that a definite system for handling the liquor problem probe lem has not been worked out to take the place of prohibition which was proven a failure years ago declared James A. A Hooper secretary of the Utah State Wool grow era association I III believe that every person is entitled en titled to his or her own viewpoint he asserted but developments have been en such that there is no satisfactory course for tor Utah to pursue but to repeal repeal repeal re re- re- re peal the eighteenth amendment and the state constitutional section regarding regarding re rc- re- re gardi garding 1 liquor r regulation |