Show WILL 11 IT IT EE BE t PROHIBITION I SUBJECT MUCH DISCUSSED AT ATTHE ATTHE Y THE STATE CAPITAL i tj Citizens Citizen of Salt Lake Are Not OverConfident Over Over- j Confident That Measure Will Vim Be Enacted One of the leading topics among the legislators rs and the public at Salt Sal Lake City at the present time is the prohibition question and the up line of the states state's lawmakers when the matter is brought up in is the legislature legis legis- lature for final adjustment Of course there are many citizens on either side of the f fence nce and for all ll the laymen can ascertain definitely the question may be of in any one of several sev I eral oral ways but there are those those- who say aay they have been tossing straws to see which way the wind blows and j 1 who in the words of the immortal I nor i Hamlet say it is slightly we west t. t These men who lay claim to abnormal abnor mal development of the cerebrum cerebrum- f I hint that the tho legislators tors are pretty j divided on the question and I that some of the tho lawmakers who went J 1 to the capital with the expectation of seeing a a hard and fast prohibition F a measure carried through the legisla legislature legislature ture with a whoop are now wo wondering wondering wonder wonder- de ing why some of their colleagues colleagues- areso are areso I so cold and oyster like when the 1 mooted question is broached in their presence I Another thing to which these would- would be wise ones call attention is ig the fact that this question which formed the j r backbone of the recent political campaign campaign campaign cam cam- was not touched upon in the the- governors governor's message Whether this this- i i omission was merely an oversight or i whether it may be constructed to bear out the at statement t ment of the savant savant savant sa sa- C vant is a u. question f for r the tho individual to decide for himself as it is merely the assertion of men men who like others others are waiting for enlistment Saturday afternoon the representatives represents tives of the brewers brewers' association circulated circulated cir cir- a i petition in Salt Bait Lake Lake City in w which t the tho o signers rs sought to inform ho e 8 Lt e a ws y bearing on of on lh S broad enough en gh and d concise enough for K present needs This is looked upon as being a so sort ol of counterbalance to the petit petitions for prohibition which were circulated throughout the state last week All in all it seems to the casual observer at t Salt Lake that both sides side are confident but that neither is absolutely absolutely absolutely certain As a matter of fact there seems to be more optimism among the citizens of the smaller towns who favor prohibition than r among amon- the rank and file at Salt Lake |