| Show HOW ABOUT PROHIBITION The News has lIas sounded tIle the slogan The rhe church has lias decided to force prohibition through the legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature this term terra Wo We presume it will be backed by byall byall byall all the other churches at least all except one We rather suspect that the thing as it will vill finally crystallize crystal crystal- v lize will be prohibition for cities of the first class which ft V which would mean Ogden and Salt Lake and would vV not interfere with ith Senator Smoots Smoot's drug store 9 We will not discuss motives toda today but rather consider the thc matter from a business standpoint It will take awa away directly a large revenue from this tills k city how much can easily casily be ascertained by looking up the licenses that have been paid iu in n the past but that will be he but a tithe of the actual loss because itis it itis iti's itis is i's a clear case that it will cause in great measure the progress of the city to stop and will cause property to depreciate beyond all present calculations That Thatis is the thc business view of it and that is what every property owner orner in Salt Lake will have havo to face it is what the legislature under its oath should consider for every member will be under oath to use his best ability for the welfare of the states state It is is worth while in passing to keep I in i mind iud that 0 the church never manifested an any anxiety r on ou th this question so long as it held control of or the cit city Indeed Indeed In In- deed the business w was ws s inaugurated here by hy the prophet seer and re clator who led his people to this region lie To was directly interested in three distil distilleries dis dis- til erles that made au an all article of valley tan three drinks of which w sufficient re to make a u saint go out and steal a horse C inside of fifteen minutes Further Fur Pur- thor ther the legislature gave this same prophet seer and revelator a monopoly o of in this region region re- re gion iou and as nearl nearly all the tho sales were clear profits r Jie lie showed by the profits that he lie was a prophet seer and Itis It is necessary to state this much in or order er to have havea a i. i proper basis lasis on on which ch to consider the question in the thc abstract Because of this example Yer very many nany 0 men ilien have large investments here in the business investments in- in investments vestments made in i good faith and supposedly on an implied contract that they the would have fJ fair L' L treat treat- ment mente But nut all this is only preliminary to the real question ques ques- tion and that is will th the lie legislation be bea a success 1 It JI is enough to 0 o say that it is not in any other spot on oni I this earth carth it is 1 i enough to say that where no politics and no graft are arc considered the experience of the I 0 world for a thousand years ears and more has been cn that I the way to deal with the traffic is to put lUt it under tinder II 1 proper restrictions and make the men who e gage in ill it responsible for fOl good order maintained in iii such j places and for such arrangements of these places as f will supply no incentive to minors tp patronize them b. b It will vill be he the business of the legislature to con con- hider sider whether thi this example in iii the handling of a difficult dif dif- business by hy the thc shrewdest men mon connected with I Elit the government gO of large cities is worth their consid- consid ration 01 or not I There arc aro certain things which it is legitimate 10 o point out and anti one ono is is that in no called so-called prohibition state talc this in country has hus there ever er a it t great city grown up tip Perhaps Iowa n supplies the best t example nd though thought Iowa is naturally ll about the richest state staten in n the union there is iF no city in it above nho the second class lass and Ute the r reason plainly ll is that lint men nien when thc they hey are arc seeking to engage in business and to invest est their heir money will win not notis as is a It rule Iule go I to o a t i state where the he morals of men arc Ire sought to be controlled by hy St statute fl t I 1 to The rhe reports from t southern states a your year I ago go were vere that legislation had been found which put the thc lid hiti upon the thc l liquor traffic The rhe leading lead- lead I ing ng papers of these states stales today say that never was the thc lie so unsatisfactory a a. condition never er were vere the lie baneful effects ts o of tile the traffic so vitally manifested manifested mani maui as rj right ht now iton- The rhe palpable fact behind all the rest is that the passions assions and appetites ot of men can not bo he killed by st st. statute ute that the best that can l be done lone is to restrain hem an and aud place them within the least offensive limits Wo Vo arc are aware that the legislature will be smothered red ered under an avalanche of petitions We Ye think it just to remind the legislature that they will know how low these petitions were obtained precisely like an affirmative vote vole in the lie tabernacle at nt conference Thero is another mother fact to remind the legislature which i is that in hI no iio state has it been more clearly shown hown than titan in ill Utah that a law can eau not noL be enforced against public opinion If Ii thc they do not believe e that let et them read the time testimony of President Joseph F. F Smith in Washington and then go and peruse the records of or the tIle gentlemen who have been prosecuting officers in this state during the Jast four years And Au while perhaps it is useless we wc will in con- con elusion lusion today ask the time legislators to keep their heads I Ic el and not to forget their oath of office |
