Show DRY UTAH KEYNOTE OF BETTERMENT LEAGUE lEA G U E I I St State State tc F Federation PI dge Itself to Banish S Liquor II WANT SWEEPING SWEEPINGS LAW Sutherland Is Urged to tc 5 Work for Passage a sage of Hobson Resol Resolution tion Resolutions calling on on Senator George S Sutherland therland to work for early action acHon on Oil the Hobson resolution resolution resolution reso reso- lution proposing an amendment to the c constitution of the United States prohibiting the liquor tr traffic were adopted by the Utah Federation Federation Federation Federa Federa- tion of of Prohibition tion and Betterment Leagues at the annual meeting in Barratt Barratt Barratt Bar- Bar hall yesterday afternoon The resolutions were proposed by George A. A St Startup of Provo after he had explained ex ex- that the resolutions are no now held up in committee Senator Sutherland erl erland nd is a member of the committee considering the resolution The federation also adopted a resolution resolution reso reso- lution ution pledging its members to work only for or the ele election of legislators who will vote for of a prohibition bill bm during luring the first thirty days o of the legislative session The federation will also demand that the bill go in effect sixty days after atter passage Five ive hundred per persons ons attended yesterdays yesterday's yes yes- meeting which is declared to I be the tue largest in the tIle history of the I organization J. J G t was elected president t fOr thee ensuing ill year to succeed John M. M Whitaker r St Strong Stong ong Pledges Adopted The rhe resolution relating to state wide prohibition in Utah follows Be it resolved by this bO body ly of prohibition pro pro- prohibition work workers s 's In state annual conver convention con con- ver assembled S First that we will work worl for fo for and anc not be satisfied until state and nationWIde nation nationwide wide WIde- prohibition is attained S S Second cond that we Ye pledge pledge- ourselves not ot to support en encourage or 91 ci sustain ustan i anyone or city county state stat or n office wh who will ill not Pledge ds himself himself him him- self sel or or herself for tor and will tc to secure speedy and effective st state te and anc I national prohibition Third that to se secure ure this we pledge ourselves to public sentIment senti sentI sentiment ment meat for attendance e at the primaries arIe i I and there to select no no delegate who wh I will not pledge himself or herself herscH h to tc work for this same desirable end end Fourth that we pledge ourselves b to tc work for the election of men for the thi a state legislature who will p pass ss a prohibition pro pro- bill within the first thirty p days of the session such bill to go g into effect within sixty days after after- it Its lb approval Whitaker Denounces Liquor John M. M Whitaker retiring president dent delivered the principal speech declaring that the time Is is' is ripe f for fr r r concentrated effort toward the banishment banishment ban ban- o of the liquor evil He Ho said We Ve welcome you here today in the interest of ot one o of the tho greatest reforms reform S in history one history that is taking hold of o of f the state and nation and ancl rapidly r sweeping over the civilized world Utah where the sentiment of th the vast majority o of the people has expressed expressed ex ex- pressed in favor of effective prohibition prohibition tion has been deprived more than once a of ot taking her place In this needed re re- re form S We Ve need no more more patent argument t in favor of prohibition than the he in increasing increasing increasing in- in creasing demand that is being made mad a for tor it In war the he struggling nations have hav found it indispensable for the efficiency p and endurance o of the soldiers In the th i world o of traffic great railroad corporations corporations corpo corpo- rations have found it in necessary preserving pre serving life and property Captains o oi of r industry have demanded it t in competIng Ing successfully in the markets of ot the I world The thinker and the statesman I have found it destructive of the reasoning reasoning reason reason- ing power Now is the time for tor action Everything Everything Everything Every Every- thing looks propitious for a successful IS I termination o of this Issue in Utah Public Public Pub Pub- S lic lie sentiment should be so sc that when th the primaries are held th that t tonly only such d delegates are selected as will L nominate th those se who will pledge their loyal and unequivocal al allegiance gla to Continued on page 2 I DRY UT UTAH Al KEYNOTE I I C Continued from page paRt 1 1 I work for state and nation wid wide prohibition prohibition pro pro- and that without dea delay I I Officers Ar Are Elec Elected ed Officers were el elected as follows I Heber J J Grant president the Rev George E. E Davies Salt Lake George I A. A Startup Provo Prove George Albert Smith Salt Lake Lae William Villiam W. W Seeg- Seeg miller Kanosh David O. O McKay Ogden Ogden Og- Og den and arid James W. W Funk Richmond I i Ie I p John Henry Evans Salt Lake secretary James H. H Wolfe i Halt Lake corresponding r I secretary and Uncle c Jesse Knight Provo treasurer I Following the election o of officers S. S O. O Bennon told of the effects of prohibition prohibition pro pro- in He Ho said that since prohibition the taxes in I Independence had decreased a year and that charity demands had decreased matei mate mate- i Does Not Hurt Business S. S II Love said that prohibition will not injure the business man and that in a recent visit to lo Denver he had found that the majority of the people of ot that city would not return to toai an n open town I if they had the chance The Rev Gf George E. E Davies Dairies pastor of f I the First Presbyterian church declared that he would be ashamed of ot himself If he were not for prohibition Melvin J. J Ballard of S L president the Northwestern states mission Of the l Mormon n church said that f for r months he had not seen a saloon until he came cameto cameto cameto II to Salt Lake and that while he had llad often otten referred to Utah with pride he he was ashamed to have anyone ask him himI I how Utah stood on the liquor question John L L. L Herrick president of or the Northern states mission of the Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- f mon church with headquarters at Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver declared that the people of ot Denver Den Des DenI ver vel are well satisfied with the result I of prohibition Andrew Kimball president of the St. St Joseph Ariz stake of the Mormon church said there was wai no prohibition in Arizona except In the three Mormon counties until the women of the state were given the opportunity to vote He declared that In the fifteen months that prohibition has been In force In irs Anzona Arizona Ari An- I Ari-I zona the efficiency of workmen has in in- creased from 25 to 35 per cent I Joseph E. E Robinson president of ot the California mission of or the tho 1 Mormon n church said that t the tse e people of California California Califor Califor- nia are coming to understand what prohibition prohibition prohibition pro pro- means and that it will be but buta I a short time until that state goes dry Heber J. J Grant the newly elected pr president declared that he is a prohibitionist pro pro- I and always has been and that Utah will go dry next fall I |