Show TOOELE COUNTY FOR STATE WIDE prohibition the campaign lor for state wide prohibition hibi bibi tion is now on in toode county the first meetings were held last sun day one at grantsville Grants ville and the other in this city the vial tors from salt lake city were apostle heber J grant president of the betterment and prohibition leacue of utah and daughter mrs Alid gelY edward 11 anderson An deison one of the editors of the improvement era and wife and mrs ruth M FOX of the Y L M 1 I A general board the meeting in this city was held in the north ward the fist fl st speaker was edward H anderson he defered to the fact that the states all around utah were tast fist abolishing abol shing the liquor evil which was wa a good omen for state prohibition in our own state he had been taught temperence from the beginning and if any thing was needed it was the strong to help the weak as the good was responsible for some of the evil he encouraged every one to go to the primaries and see that only good men were put up for legislative offices and urged the people to wake up and see that the saloons were banished from the state mrs ruth M fox was the next speaker in earnest words she urged the people to see that they would not be the last state to get rid of the saloons age sh e related some of the scenes she had witnessed in connection with mothers who had labored to redeem their heir sons from the drunkards doom and the sad days and nights they had cassid pass id in their to turn their loved ones from the evils of 0 the saloons 4 before she closed she recited what ahe bar was that it was a bar to heaven but a gate to hell the rev frank W bross pator pastor of the tooele thoele methodist church was was the third speaker tn in a shortcut short but forcible stalk if alk h e a advised d all them the people pe ople to work for state wide prohibition and he thought the most sure way was for all the voters to vote only for the men for legislative offices who would agree to give them s state ale wide prohibition prohibit iob the concluding speaker was apostle heber J grant without any preliminary remarks he denounced the liquor traffic in in no gentle terms predicting that its ita doom was near in all he nations of the world re fering to the prohibition work already being done in russia france and canada he spoke of the value that prohibition would be to the world from a moral physical and financial point of view pro proving 1 ving all his assertions by extracts lie he read from the works of standard writers which he defered to through all his remarks he argued that all the churches should unite in a determined campaign against the liquor traffic and not let up in their activities until the cause of prohibition was won in his closing remarks he made a personal request that all his present hearers bearers should not vote for or one man for office that had not sworn to give the deop people le of utah state wide pr prohibition hibl A personal request that brought a round of applause from his hearers that lasted for some time alti at r his speech was through |