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Show STREET MEETINGS IN INTEREST OF "iW CITV ARE CONTINUED Anti-Liquor Forces Organize Organ-ize for Campaign In Various Vari-ous Precincts. , Continuing their campaign for the abolition of the sale of liquor in Bait Lake City, the "drys" will hold an Open air meeting at the corner of Second Sec-ond South and Main streets at 7:30 o'clock tonight. B. F. Orant will be the principal speaker and U isaxpeeted that local divines will participate in tha gathering,' but this had not been arranged at a late hour this afternoon. The advocates of prohibition have firaetically completed their canvass ot ha second ward of tha city and tha canvass of tha first ward began thu morning, and work in tha third will begin Tuesday. At the meeting tonight a quartette will render a number of selections. The following have been selected as district chairmen in tha third precinct: Thirty-arst, Alfred C. Bees, 7 Weat North Temple. Thirty-second, not yat appointed. Thirty-third, Arthur Frswin, T78 . gees Korte Tessple. . Thirty-fourth, John C. Lake, 919 West First North. Thirty-fifth, Joseph E. Wileoa, 75 Center street. Thirty-sixth. Ira N. Hinckley, 322 North First West. Thirty-seventh, William McMillan, 343 North Fifth West. Thirty-eighth, not yet appointed. Thirty-ninth. Albert J. Davis, 803 North Tenth West. Fortieth, Charles C. Parsons, 00 West Capital atreet. With this organization perfected, the "drys" intend to wage a vigorous campaign for a dry town, they say. - The anti-salooa forces carried their fight into the streets of the city yesterday yes-terday aad two well attended meetings wero held, one at Second South and Main streets addressed by B. 8. Hinckley Hinck-ley and Joseph J. Cannon, the other at Third South and Main, addressed by Rev. Charles H. Keel and Bishop Heber C. Iverson. Mr. Hinckley claimed that the saloon results in paupers. In Michigan, he said, where saloons are lieensed there are 300 paupers to every 100,000 population. pop-ulation. In prohibition Maine the rate is 163 to 100,000 population. Dry Kan saa haa forty-four counties with no paupers. Statistics show, continued the speaker, that 30 per cent of the inmates of asylums are there oa account of drink. Eighty-five per cent of eriml ia due to drink, and drink leaves its baneful influence oa the innocent pro genv of the drinker. Mr. Cannon declared that more people die from drink yearly in the United States thaa have been killed ia war in the last twenty-three years all ever the world, including the Spanish American and the Rusnian-Japaneae conflicts. At the Third South street meeting the Rev. Mr. Keel was tha first speaker. speak-er. Ia tha course of his address he said: "One hundred and thirty-six grog shops; flowing cesspools of iniquity; hvdra headed monsters of erime these aire the things we call saloons, for the support of which some ef us are going to east our votes ea Jnae 87, despite what ia known of their immoral and degenerating de-generating influences. " Bishop Iverson spoke principally en the moral phase of the question and quoted extensively from tha writings of Governor Stubbs of Kansas. |