| Show Our Stand on Temperance Will Utah Allow Utah-Hating Agitators to Rule The prohibitionists of the Shepherd and the Fuller tern have concluded that all of whiskey map of the United States is now except New Utah and and on the map of the United States they have the above four states painted deep while all the other states are spotlessly a deceiving picture to be put forth by such a Christian Utah is one of the most temperate states in the and always has been since its settlement in Pennsylvania has the exception of the best license Some Utah has one retail liquor dealer to every of the Pennsylvania one to every of population and New Jersey has one to every of the Now let us look at some of the spotlessly white as they are designated by the North Dakota has one retail liquor dealer to every of the although it has been a prohibition state ever since it came into the Nebraska never had state-wide and with her two large Omaha and South she has only one retail liquor dealer to every of a state composed mostly of farmers and no large a state that has had state-wide prohibition for twenty-six years has one retail liquor dealer to every of the and on account of her prohibition laws Kansas people do an enormous business with the mail order liquor Spotlessly White The prohibitionists mark California as spotlessly while at the same time she has one retail liquor dealer to every 93 her Vermont has the best license laws of any and the least she tried prohibition for seven but it did not Vermont today has only one liquor dealer to every 1478 of her Do not the above figures show that a licensed regulation is per cent better than state-wide The Vermont revenue district has a population of and it pays in the Kansas revenue district has and it only pays in More drinking in prohibition Kansas produces much less Less drunkenness in Vermont under produces much more Let Us Hear from Now what has my prohibition friends to offer to offset the above The columns of the Independent are open for a letter from Prohibitionists Are That the rank and file of the prohibitionists are honest and I am willing to but they have been led astray by such Utah-haters and agitators as the Allen and is too Where They The Fuller belongs to the Ministerial association and Shepherd is a member of the W. C. T. the two organizations that during the past few years have been inveterate enemies of Utah and her These two that are now nursing and coddling the sent out thousands upon thousands of tracts and pamphlets that slandered and vilified Utah and her people in a most scandalous One circular by the Ministerial association stated that polygamy was increasing in and that Gentiles in Utah are utterly helpless in the hands of unscrupulous Reed Smoot Had Five Miss Maria an official lecturer of the W. C. T. m a that Smoot at one time had five and now he was living with Sarah Jane another official lecturer of the W. C. T. said Senator Smoot was a Many of the C. T. U. departments in their own and other religious papers were im- with Utah that would shame the devil And yet i now pretends to love d never raised a word protest against what she knew J j be In November lone t a W. C. T. U. lecturer made j following statement at J which was printed in J t Salt Lake It was as f J J according tj L the Salt Lake has said that the Mormons can dictate their own terms in Idaho this J and that any efforts along legislative lines without the san tion of the Mormon church would be Shepherd j Shepherd was accused of y being a and thai she lectured against Senator Smoot to help ex-Senator Dubois in his anti-Mormon crusade in lt She promised to deny it publicly at the prohibition mass meeting in the Salt Lake theater last Many went to ili meeting to hear her excuse ht She made a loud grand- stand speech on 9 she was as silent as the tomb on the Mormon subject that to square herself 1 E Happy The happiest time the preachers ever had in Utah was in 1889 and when good Mor mons were being donned in crimi c nal stripes in the i Tom Iliff laughed and 4 led over it in his lecture i i He was es- j hilarious when he referred to the late Cannon in ii prison He also told s a happy time they had when the B. Roberts was j home from D. C. I A Big 1 i Over was collected by these anti-Mormon agitators to unseat Senator and if they could only hypnotize the Mormons from their temperance teaching to state-wide they could arraign all the the liquor the personal liberty people and the licensed regulation folks the and put Utah in turmoil worse than she had A people were never moral or temperate by legislation Blue laws tried to make the people act like but laws were a total 4 Moral It is only by moral suasion and Me proper education of our children along temperance lines that fill ever do away with the drink The of if properly do more to suppress the drink than all the prohibition laws that can be placed on our statute Before the law was written parchment or with Before the law made the moral law made stands for human p and when Those rights it fails to let law my human beings in closing I wish to refer to a state that tried prohibition for Crime in a Prohibition Kansas adopted prohibition years and has not a licensed saloon in all that On June there in the Kansas state penitentiary committed in j for the following causes to kill 50 to rape 15 and larceny 99 47 i larceny first 54 second 21 third 3 j fourth 7 first degree 62 second degree 50 statutory rape 14 82 increased over 48 per jent in Kansas in the two decades which the state has been der The character the crimes for which were nal became more Referring to the United Census page it that of all the twelve in what is known as the Kan- had in 1904 absolutely the to ratio of to As against the increase in Illi- and Michigan show decreases in the number of figures demonstrate that if it does not actually foster and increase certainly does not diminish Although there are no saloons in fifty-six women were arrested at West a coal mining in one on charges of disturbing the peace by wrecking four The proprietors refused to sell the women beer in Let us all look at home and properly educate our children along temperance and not put too much confidence in statutory V. 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