Show Why Goodwin Opposes Prohibition I Now comes the well known de- fender of liquor-selling sa loons in Utah and true to his ancient The following I j are his reasons for opposing the 1 i recent movement for 1 Mormon church chiefs do 1 not want they do not intend to have because the next thing to political power which they covet is and they are making too much money through the sale of liquor to wish to stop i 1 The president and a large stockholder of Zion's Co-operative Mercantile is the pres-j ident of the and no one j J who is familiar with his life his- i tory can point to any place where he ever surrendered any possible j 1 to make money for I is the dishonesty of the i move that we are fighting in the first in the second if j it were it would be bad j because it would not pro- duce prohibition and it would j lasting injury upon vast j property and upon the bus- iness of the that we mean i that law would bring these losses j and then the law would not be en- 1 Laws are not enforced i against public opinion in and never have and the pub- fj lie opinion of this state is opposed j to It is C. O. editor of the who writes the above reasons why he opposes the movement for temperance in They are reasons worthy of the f brilliant literary hack who con- Goodwin and his ilk oppose the movement because the Mormons favor To be he says that he opposes merely because they dishonestly favor but this is still It is base enough to oppose anything simply because others favor but to oppose it on the ground your enemies do not favor the height of absurdity as well as the depth of The idea that while actively working for Mormon chiefs do not want because are making too much money through the sale of liquor to wish to stop among other that every action with Goodwin is a matter of lie therefore judges that this the case with other He cannot understand how any one could favor any movement unless he made money out of Hence the action of Mormon chiefs' is to him an unfathomable mystery As a matter of where one may get one cent of dividend through any sale of liquor in a M. I. drug Goodwin's saloon friends in Utah receive thousands of The that it is simply not possible for men to advocate and bring about for the general good that which would mean some financial loss to themselves furnishes all people with a means of taking the measure of this high-priest of saloon and life-long prater against his Mormon neighbors in Is not his denunciation of Mormon an open advertisement that whoever will his price in paltry can get But is he worth even this poor It seems pitiful that a man of some literary education and possessed of many good and who must have had in his earlier days some of the nobler aspirations of youth could thus fall so low that he could he bought by whoever has his Goodwin stuck to the Republican party as long as it paid him to do for he changed to the American saturated with the as well as the practice of he basely imputes to others the motives which alone he understands applied to Let every young man be warned by this spectacle of a brilliant but mendacious Continued-lying warps the soul and destroys even the springs of a generous and healthy |