| Show Iii Tnt NTEIIEHI 01 1111 ISAMU 1 Them are n nurnhr of cities In this Fato In which the sentiment 01 n Israe I mnjIt of the 10110 faors ear tallln the evils of the saloon And I of the liquor traffic by means or stringent ordinances and In some or hem ll t hill In a pronounced sentiment In favor or ohlbltlon In several cities In the State I the city councils arc roW stiugcltnr with the great liquor f problem Th sentiments or the 1ple In rtgnrtl to the liquor truffle are too well known torneed repetition at this time For nearly half a entury this puller hOB whenever the occasion hat been appropriate eipitssul the flew I that strict regulation of the tr fac should be I enforced everywhere and that prohibition Is I n rood thing ohm popular sentiment sufficiently supports the icBlslatlto and xerulle ikptrl nients of the municipal EOMirntntuts In the effoit to enforce iL Hut coral lions lime nrlsen In this State ilncc division came that cull for a modification modi-fication of the policy In dealing with tho liquor question which was fa ored by a strong mljoilty of the Inhabitants of many of Us towns And cities In tormr mr Before tho voters of Utah were divided on national party line the liquor problem at times figured prominently In connection with the olOrnmnt of some of tile larger towns In the then Territory but memory mem-ory does not recall Ali ntane In which It was ever mad a party que I lien or a vehicle on which a political party sought to ride Polio Power by catering to either the saloon or he temperance vote Mn fore1 or op pjsed nntlllquor legislation on other grounds than partisan aduntog or from other motives than the spoilt of olUcc omBut unhappily for many municipalities municipali-ties In the State I a very different status exists In them now Party feeling runs mi high and the desire for oBlri Is I so Intense that men who are them selvea 1 anlOll1t the best patrons of the rumUr are more than filing tom to-m before the suffragists of tho tOil n In the garb or pronounced advocatisot temperance If by me doing they rn secure office and on the other hind there are good thurch People 0100 IInnnr are none too g cull to form alliance with the saloon element If by such a course they can Insure the ejection ejec-tion of their party ticket Petty ward politicians are rendy > anJ willing to dcglmde tile great moral 11llem InADIved In the saloon question to the luel ot partisan strife for pelf und pOller and the extraordinary partisan Steel to use no harsher term which the twoplo dl Is play and their seeming nllllngneis to t suirlnce every consideration on the altar al-tar of Party moke ltjea > for the INS IlKInns to ll 11 Ids 1 theimnks of this t villa were nut their purtlianltir aroused would be two ptrue and settle friends of tempcrancet The existence of tho condlllun hen scribed Is ccrtclnly to be > deeply I re gritt d It Is I deplorable 1 to see peOn ho all their Ihes hae been I opposed in the saloon nnd the gigantic eilli lot spring from It stand ready to Join hands with Its supporters for the sake of electing their partytlckit and cap tuilnc for themsehen their friends the questionable honors of the minor oinccs that go to make tip the government govern-ment of the town But > the moment that sees the saloon cuentloii become apolitical a-political Usue In cither of a number ot Utah cltlis will ttlso see what has just been lhMlwwr1 It follows thereforoT that tho tru frteiuM of temperance and the genuine saloon should exert opponent 2 of the IhemseUes to preMn the llquvr question ques-tion from becoming un Issue In municipal muni-cipal politics henill i Is I made suth I an Issue I It Is lno liable that at least I I a ortlon l of the friends of temjieranre will bo found working hI behalf of the 811loon after all II ell B before election It the t temperance party wlm at the polls former friends of temperance under the Influence ofjward politician will bo found trjlns to harra I It and to discredit and prevent tho success nIt n-It polio while If the friends or the saloon are umlulvlctory Mill Le merit the friendship and strengthen the mutual obligations existing Wlueen the saloon element and the erstwhile advocates ad-vocates of nn opposite policy wh > hv beets made bedfellows by the illgeVi cles of lIrd politics fh bInvoItlY IncYUtN ki loVjr f f J for efli whenlt suc < ccds In I making itself a political Issue In a mall town I Men and omn who have befriended It t > y supporting nt the polls the can dates who were Its friends ha > e placed hemsched hI l a position In which they I cannot exert an Innuence against It I Ithout t the Inward consciousness If not the open charge of Inconsistency I In the cases of many young lien the en I ulf I between flits iiosltlon and the door or f th saloon may easily he spanned i while many nn wI hsingle step older man tlnds himself prepared to I to the triumph of his and the I siloonkeepers part 1 I Urtll Party feeling wanes a little In f tah temperance < workers IIho bll to I see thor liquor traffic either urtlhd I th-or pnhlhlledjwould do well to labor I among all the people of the town wind missionary work educate I by persistent them up to the moral standard that i a III ranoe i > them i to firing uh a Ie sure to bear upon the loa authorities and politicians as will secure the desired the sired reforms without making saloon a political Issue and without riding Into hostile camps the friends of temlrance lht a great majority of both l partivs ask for the politicians poli-ticians and efflee holders for obvious reasons are pretty sure to grant Ho title thin adiantnge this plan has the further ono of converting the PIPle thtluilelVoii the source alike or Power end 1 Immorality to urrt vleviq on a great mornl Ib1 > oct |
