| Show PROHIBITION WILL PROHIBIT BUT REGULATION DOES NOT REGULATE So Says B. F. Editor Utah Many good reasons may be given why saloons should be Not one legitimate excuse can be offered for their I can point to countless crimes that have been committed as a result of liquor I can show where the liquor traffic is responsible for distress and I have seen it destroy despoil womanhood and wreck human And I challenge any of the saloon business to show any benefit that saloons bestow upon the men who patronize them or upon the community in which they are I believe it is possible to pro hibit the sale and manufacture of-intoxicating liquors in any state where the sentiment of the people is in favor of The people of Utah from their earliest history have believed in total As long as they were able to combat its evil influence they kept drink from their But when temptations multiplied and attractions became more seductive it was an unequal fight for the fathers and mothers of the Struggle as they and plead and they were not able to avert the encroachments and demands of the as many a saddened home bears have tried license laws and According to the supreme court we have local option And all the while conditions have been growing while the liquor element grown stronger and more difficult to A year and a half ago the people of Utah with few exceptions demanded They were told that it wouldn't but they asked the legislature to give it a have tried the Why were we not allowed to try We had found that regulation didn't and we asked a chance see if prohibition wouldn't The liquor dealers were naturally against Those who were indirectly interested in the were against And the legislature was against They told us that prohibition wouldn't If it why are the liquor dealers to They told us that more liquor was sold in prohibition states than And still we wondered why the liquor dealers banded themselves together and contributed tens of thousands of dollars to defeat Were they unwilling to sell more Or were they The only rational conclusion is that they know it will I will repeat an On the of the Deseret News said are told that prohibition does not It closes the if the law is honestly even if it does not prevent drunkards from liquor and even that is a If is driven out from our main and hunted as a crime in every hole where it takes it is no longer the menace it is now to our not to say anything about the Let it be an outlaw in society and much of its harmfulness is it does In San Francisco every saloon was closed after he It was possible to do and it was The result was' that the criminal element left- crimes were reduced as much as 80 per Let us try the experiment Opponents of prohibition say local option is the Local by which one town may get the trade and license and supply neighboring with drunkenness and is not a remedy for the saloon Some say that high license will eliminate the dives and leave only high class saloons in the various towns and It is in these high-toned resorts that boys and men take passage for the Such places have a claim to for the law allows and the state sanctions their Here is where the beginner gets his It is no for he frequents an institution which by father's and his mother's He squanders his earnings and wastes his and his' clothes grow shabby as his appetite From the high saloon he drifts to the second class saloon and in to the which the last station before his It would be a thousand times better if there were no popular and high class legalized by the votes' parents and holding out false standards of manhood to young It would be better to the saloon a place of risk to boys and their every liquor seller an and every man who patronizes the business easy and Gilded vice and respectable sin are those which allure while the dark haunts of traffic hold out few to the well raised I know something of this evS r am I have had which made it to sM Thirty years ago I wag in the liquor For years I have walked the streets of Salt Lake City as a special I have seen young go the and have aided to escape the almost power which grapples so I am doing all I in humble for W I wear on my coat a button cannot rua without Have you I am asking my fellow to remember so that may realize what it costs to such places I want tip man who expects to vote continuance of the evil to call hir family together the night and there at his explain to them that saloons not run without and to tell them that the morrow he is going to vat I for the saloons to remain in and realizing how and believing they S he is willing to 1 fab is quota of victims- 1 'S Jre proposed as a method of to write upon a slip of et all the names of his chilli and check off in red ink the J is willing to sacrifice to his S and to the needs liquor and to then Jul me the list so I can inform M men that he has made M g and can assure his 1 gj leaders that his campaign Ration is M it may seem hard and cruel to Lt with a loved one for such a but cannot run Shout and men who want I Ion to continue must do their vt toward their It doesn't seem fair that we will vote against the saloons ib fluid also contribute to their so it would only be just men to furnish more than and thus the saloons require a few fathers and I would suggest that father and mother cast lots which of them it This is surely better the haphazard way it has t don't think parents can i this levy by not sending in The saloons will in-their and entice the from Girls will be or directly sacrificed For there is no evading the saloon is kept open by vote or your neighbor's it will require material to t. For cannot run it keep this in mind and or the best interests of I sincerely hope things will be so indelibly d upon your hearts that never lose sight of the a you go to vote that cannot run without B. F. |
