Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-25 | Page 10 | What the Cannon Bill Means

WHAT THE CANNON BILL MEANS Analyze the prohibition bill as introduced b by Representative Rep Rep- Cannon and see what it really means Nothing except to transfer the liquor trade from froni the saloons to the drug stores and to give physicians a n tip for prescriptions Can anything else be he made out ont of it 1 At the thc first outbreak of T Grant TIlE THE T TELEGRAM said the thc movement was insincere that tho the Mormon l chiefs would advocate nd nothing that would cut off any church revenues How Irow does docs it look now With the bill a law how would the revenues of the Z C. C M. M r. r I. I or the Smoot drug store be bo affected 1 Is it not all a a. clear case 1 The Tho purpose is not to insure insure insure in in- sure or even encourage prohibition not to stop top the traffic in liquor in the least but to turn the hulk bulk of ot I that traffic c into the church stores to take from the city the licenses now rece received ed from liquor dealers to cripple the city's finances and to take from front those who sell liquor all responsibility for the effects of liquor selling Does anyone believe that such a bill would have been introduced had Jand the church continued to I rule this city eity as ns it did for the first fort forty years veal'S of it its existence this existence this city an and state when three thirty distilleries were in full blast and the liquid fire which they manufactured would burn a hole in an asbestos undershirt 1 There is still another purpose It is to have the message go out that Utah is prohibition and thus thins arrest atTest th the forward march of this city in progress to break down real estate values to stop building to cause mortgages to be foreclosed and the ruin of men inert struggling straggling up toward independence All AU these benevolent purposes aro are included The design is if possible possible pos pos- sible to reduce the cit city again agnin to church rule and in fn inthe inthe the meantime to graft and f financially ruin as many Gentiles as possible How do the property owners of Salt Lake like the picture 7 1