Show I Our Enforcement Record I i E ENFORCEMENT of prohibition jn m Utah LItah hardI hardly pays its way Figures j just st anI announce announcer an an- I by bythe the department of justice for the fiscal year ear 1926 snow show fines amounting to 1 collected in Utah as against again II in Idaho Similarly there is js a great divergence between bet the jail sentences impo imposed e l in the l I two states For the fiscal year Idaho records jail sentences aggregating six seventy years I while the total in Utah is only eight ight years Utah has two fifty-two convictions lS to her credit for the y year ar Idaho and Wyoming 73 73 I The average sentence jn in Idaho is six eighty-six days while in Utah it is six fifty-six days as compared with a national average of forty forty- six days The figures seem to have a message for bootleggers and distill distillers rs of illicit liquor It would seem to indicate that they may operate in Utah with more freedom than in Idaho for we cannot bring ourselves to believe that the Utah figures are reflective of the proportions proportions proportions of the liquor industry in jn Utah Something Something Some Some- ome- ome thing is wrong in for it doesn't require require require re re- re- re quire an an expert to to determine that possibilities possibilities ties for liquor or prosecutions her herd are far greater than the figures would indicate Perhaps we are not enforcing the federal statutes with the same determination as Idaho for fOT or there Seems to be no disposition on the part oft of the e courts to deal lightly with th the violators The fines collected here hardly pay the salary and expenses of one manThe man The remaining expense is a total loss Joss to the taxpayers With equal vigilance in Utah and md Idaho on the part of enforcement officers the fhe prosecutors and the courts it doesn't I seem reasonable that Idaho should have six r v times limes as s many prosecutions as s Utah unless Idaho is one of the wettest spots in th tha Great American desert Which hicl we ve ve doubt very much The fact of the matter is that hat Utah en en- f nt officers ers have hav a a more fertile fieldin field in Ji 1 to fo operate overate than tijan either Wyoming or Idaho and yet both of these states record more convictions than Our own It would se seem m to be e time for the Utah enforcement off officers cers to start a little campaign in their own o b behalf half If Utah is as spotless as the figures would seem to indicate the force is too large and arid if it fl isn't then it i is time the I prohibition agents did something to justify the he expense that their pre presence nce here entails |