Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-03-25 | Page 7 | Fighting Dry Law

I L Fighting the Dry Law I Jt ll UT UTAH AH had reason to believe it was through with wet and dry fights but apparently there must be another battle or ballots over ove demon rum for the liquor interests directing th their ir campaign P from New York have announced that the referendum against theT the theT T ratification of t the e national dry amendment is to be invoked in ina ino o a thirteen states ates and Utah is one of the thirteen The fight is to g center particularly in the West with Utah as a central point The i lI states involved besides Utah are California Washington Oregon Nevada Idaho New Mexico Colorado Michigan Ohio Missouri a Maine Maine and Nebraska eight in n the West and we we will have havethe the scrap go going g on on all sides of us To win the wets must carry ten out of the thirteen states nd in practically all the these e statewide prohibition is now i in force I t The he only argument the wets will be able to offer is that of state a questionable and always debatable able matter There are are I however undoubtedly people who will vote for state statewide vide it on and yet oppose a nationwide m masure asure not because they do not q f vor prohibition but because they believe for instance that Utah has no more right to say whether California shall or shan shall not sell liquor than that California a should insist on a market here for the thet t products of its wineries and breweries But ar are there enough of ii the these e state rights be believers ievers fhe he wets believe there are but with t of 10 to 3 against them It looks as though the wets were up q against a t real Verdun H