Show FOR prohibition mr air alonzo brinkerhoff salt I 1 lake ike city utah do dear it senator you haveard will NAM no doubt receive many letters froni from the ICO people PIC you represent c arlt in regard to this law that if before the legislature in favor of th ajl slate wide prohibition please consider consid cr this letter carefully before wu nou convey it to the waste ba basket ezet I 1 I 1 am one out of the many hundreds eds to choin this bill if passed will mean newness newnes ss of life and happiness but if not passed it will mean a continuation of worry doubt macry and despondency when you were elected two years ago I 1 voted for y you olt with all my lily heart thinking here is a man mail one that is fearless truthful honest and upright and one that A will ill stand for right even though satan natan and all his imps were arrayed against him if reports are arc true which I 1 hope to heaven they ire arc not some republican leaders have sold themselves just before this tin s election to the brewers and sa ion I on men of this state for their support in winning the election ising isiria 1 in return that diat if elected tile hey would keep quia fiust about prohibition it does look that way aay when their official organ lias ila never opened its pages in favor of prohibition since before tile lie clec election tion and the lie governor never mentioned it in ill ilk his message sage 1 lint but let that lie 10 as n it may senator nutt ou were LICCI Cl by bv tile the people 0 of this district and it is tile the I 1 wish is it of cery honest heart that we ave sil shall all have laws enacted that art are good for us your duty therefore is to berve tile llie people in ill ii litcof ilc g stand up tit for truth combat cri error oi and wickedness you no doubt t will mill m ill sec by tile petition si signed r C 1 1 in V tile the citizens ze s of that tile they want lilt stale wide prohibition for fol it will do 10 us its I 1 no good food to in try local option when there ire arc so many foreigners in our coal camps who almost aeillo ct live liale on oil beer besides tile many gamblers saloon nien men and the scum of tile the earth this is wha clial t we have to fight against here in this county consider confider the fhe sourer source awa joano e ll 11 11 i WS of 1 place against pt prohibition but do consider tile the source curce froni fron i whence it comes collie S froni froll those engaged in tile the business of mining billing our auth taking the honest honc C 4 dollars earned while tile tile they hem 1 selves lie ar around otillI and wax fat on oil 1 somebody 1 ellOdy s liand lilt earning carnin S these TI ice faloon ca I 1 men circulating circulation ILI ill 11 e peti eions ire arc getting many of our aoun fining boas to si sign 11 it we vc have lawyers and allot a boil tit marshal arshal in our I 1 midst lio ho would vol ih 11 sign ll our petition and from froll NO what ia tile they told us its we ve i um up till tile lie reasons thus it would hurt their bus s of course prohibition 1 does I away with a great real deal ica of cy evil it and crini I 1 nal it lawyers would not have 11 ave so to to do to think of it drunkard s si sn I 1 am till safe in sa uni there ere a dozen men signed billed our petition that are arc heavy drinkers and who lie feet their homes and families they said eliat ahat they would be pl id ad if the ifie saloons I 1 bolls were ivere done away with one olic of our saloon men said that lie had taken take in 11 during tile alic first f t 21 days of december tile lie of 1100 I 1 am told by one who iio lias ila ban in tile alie business Ill sille SS hele for nears cars that each saloon takes lakes in ill from soo to to aioo every eye A just think of it and are a re four I 1 who 0 O does eliat benefit the saloon hee keepers pers tile breweries and in tile the distilleries while it injuries many a lion home c taking K tile very bread from froll the mouths out of ft the little hid children one month Ill olith at 1100 would fildi nearly iriv pay ia the license cc 1 for two t 0 o years 3 cars sec liow that money moncy if circulated c iii proper channels could belle benefit fit liose walo spent pent it to say nothing a of tile town own Colli county ltv an and I 1 t tale ach bv bi the ward taw now I 1 know kilow MICI wherein I 1 alj ciak pi ak aj there arc dozens of families here where here the men mell spend on oil an all avera c every lay day more ac yes twice tile llie sum that ill at would If keep their families in in food and clothing some are arc actually being kept by tile ward while the father spends tile greater palt pait of his 1 is bacs va c for drink or lias ila it stoc stolen fro from him while 1 in I tile alic saloon others I 1 know where here the mother is AvI every lay day in tile week bililc the lie t father is a 1 prosperous I 1 barnier arnica in tile the summer nier time and sands all in tile kikoon in ill tile winter still others are barely maling a living with the strictest economy cco lionly on the part of the wife oil I 1 could tell you voit many hor continued on page six FOR prohibition PROHIBIT IONI continued front from first page thill 1 S of which ou m have peace and love in your homes hollies kalow ihnow nothing bitter biller repentance 1 1 I I could take lake my inn on life and startle 0 o i with aliat liat I 1 have hall to L adin dure e every avery adny and year yea ir for tho the past 12 reals but it ii donld ouli cdx talc up 1111 too loo mi idi of aiu ti liina 1110 if voit volt hove the least doubt call and alle te inc ie soil lethile alien tell convel liell t anil I 1 can call tell yon my experience with drink andean and can t lake a ke you to dozens of homes ionic here the dins didis will almost tell tile the story you volt mi bilig slit ailt think it is 1113 fily own fault ma be it was in the lie first place when I 1 took this tin s step before I 1 was out of my illy but I 1 have sincerely in and ami sorely repented and for years have been ing to I 1 light ight the wrong by bv livin nearer to iny god boins doin his ill k 1 liis his com coill and striving to teach dinv inv iny children tile same abill will not my my debt of disobedience soon lie be paid ani am I 1 tu to suffer always Is there alln rc no one to help ii inc c surely theford is and will lyv div prayers by putting in th c hearts of you nien men of if the legislature 1 i tile the cacs desire ire it to do your nour dut duty y to stand by true li uc principles and vote for a 1 law that will help to bring brin sunshine line and liobe into tile the hearts hearts of many a ire and mother you ali ht sav say but it will not help the old drinker the confirmed drunkard it will if tile the officers of tile the law will mill ever do to alk ir duty and not be moral cowards hissie His pleads for her boy jl may inov not tu to the fullest extent keep scepan all 0 old lit drinker front from drink entirely but if tile saloons are arc done away vay with lie will have no place to zo go and spend ili his money in gamblin ill c and treating and the law if passed will surely save the drunkard s boys bivs what whai mother s heart will not break if after acar cars s nf f sorrow with a drunken husband busbia she sees tier her boy pi over the same awful route 1 I plead with oil dvar dear cl lator in in the name of ill mv bo bwy to help save not only him ln iii but hundreds of others from going this route I 1 know you are a tender hearted nian man and I 1 believe that aou QU will do what i is right I 1 trust you the saloons must go 0 c o ilow how can call tile saviour come collie if the these C temples of satan are arc not done dolic away with willi the lord says lie will ivill cut his work short in ri righteousness qs you nou 1 are I re one of ili his s servants er to help his ight il lincous lit purposes 1 I think in this tin s hill bill there should b lz an allotment of just so much whiskey to cuter the state for medicinal purposes if there lacre ennst be any at all and that aliat distributed to each cach drug store pro rata rala and then onan only vine kne adril drug store in each town to handle it if some such provision is is not marie all the saloons will turn into drug t stores may the lord bless and liela hii to to ilu the right and ami may niad every mother s heart have cause to rc j oice and praise wu iou and your bour fel biow iw workers in the t lic near future is is the prater of a mother cither ni deseret news WOMANS PLEA ILEA FOR STATE prohibition dear sir lua inasmuch as there is hope for prohibition in this state 1 I pauline Pati litie petersen wish to write a 1 I few lines lilies telling dellill you a little of my iny tiou troubles bles brou broucht lit on oil by alcohol for nine years I 1 have had to support four children my husband was given to drinkut drin kit and would come collie home under tinder the alic influence of liquor and commit acts of depredation for which lie lias been put in prison several times and in ill tile alie pen pell two terms temis Ws s a result I 1 leave h ave had lucli soi poverty MI ii misery in my iny home ionic I 1 have been forced to ta tax ili my strength until I 1 am III now no a physical i wreck and whiskey is tile llie c cause ause of it all I 1 ish 0 o oil could read this to our law makers and ask klicin for nie me and my children to make utah a prohibition state for then there will lie be much rejoicing all and d none fiill ill have to go s through natt hat I 1 have for this I 1 will ever pray sill signed ailed MIS i I 1 RS rf iii rini Kiy LKA LARA ANNIG VETI CARI j ITI ERmIN thatcher utah jan iq hj deseret newa GIVE L LS S A SQUARE DEAL SAYS DRUNKARDS S GIRL editor filitor deseret news I 1 ant am pleased pleas cil to lo see se so many take lake advantage a c of the cicat liberality of tile the I 1 news of publishing their v vieth i C wh and cp cherie erie cs in re regard lard to the nil all absorbing ab i of prohibition many manx u lale tile cil el effects acts of alcoholism alcohol I 1 sm upon i them thein and aal tile their ir fa milic s and fur for every cl cri one who does loc so I 1 am aln satisfied there is thousands who could hear bear Ei similar nillar test s I 1 want vant to I 1 clite lilai what mii lias has done for on family my mv father was not a habitual drinker alt although hough NN whenever he canic came to town e lived then in the auntry ou oui itry and tot mixed tit up with some of ins his old tinie time acquaintances and coni comrades rades lie would out frequently imbibe too loo iiii much di and Z lid at such times as a general rule lie would throw jud j and self restraint to tile llie ands at one thile lime when lie had been to town and ili disposed of some cattle and had considerable sid erable money on oil hini him lie ile got ot on oil one of those thos drunken spi sprees ces alle my brother who was then about i 16 years cars old was with him hill on oil tile the road mad home hoine my iny father in hi drunken frenzy scattered the money money lie had left acl 1 broadcast over ill lie highway iv my b osler ea ca cr to pick them tit up tilt did not realize the llie danger front from r and was run over by bv oll one e and nearly killed lie was finally boullit lit iv in sonic some strangers s bruised and bleeden bleeding bioni lead head to fiet fiel my father who was too drunk to realize nhat lie had been tile lie cause of was also bacul konle home and put pill to led bed to sleep off tile lie effects of alc alcoholism olioli sill my mv brother recovered rapidly lint but my in ino mother I 1 who was floell little lime to time called upon to witness wit these distressing scenes of drunkenness all and debauchery cry of poverty and misery brought liro on oil by alcoholism gradual ly undermining anini inini lier her vitality and although il she was only 52 years of age a c when bieti she tied died site she could calil e easily asil have passed for seventy so much for fol alco holism in ou our family oil tile headaches tile the sleepless iii nights lits tile worry and an annit xit of my poor mother no wonder al it colio lisin shortened her life as it it Is is shortening the lives of thousands of noble women today shall we WC let this terrible scourge continue I 1 hope gentlemen of tile the legislature ou oil will anwer an this question rind and that you will answer it right c are arc 1 a I few saloon men brewers and distillers more to be considered lian hall the majority of the people f see sec a few have written against prohibition the burden of their argument I 1 seems to lc be that prohibition does docs not prohibit which tile aliey know themselves selves not to ile be true do they by that kind of reasoning llope hope to convert to their cause any person with ordinary intelligence and ability to lo think a little for r cs no it is an all appeal to the shallow minded to tile saloon loafer to tile law deaver alet and lawbreaker law breaker it is an appeal to ignorance and an invitation vi to individuals who feel so disposed to break the lie S swill will but if the people can put laws on oi their statute looks books they can call also put men 11 in office who will sec cc to it that those laws are arc enforced the statement cf mi air katz that ili in a certain prohibition town in acor georgia r ia a large t portion drinks drink as much as ever ener liili tile rest about ac 70 per cent of the trunks drunks have probably cirii emigrated rated from tile the toil not to frighten the frien friends Is of prohibition deiy van much 1 I think salt lake city and utah could survive survive the shock of havin having a few thousand drunkards leave the state because they arc not tile the kind of men ancil tile lie old brick man is looking fo for I 1 conclusion I 1 will anvil sin sill say I 1 with mr air katz give us lis a mattare ii iare deal and I 1 have no fear faai for the outcome yours respectful C 0 A salt lake Ci tJan 25 23 |