Show Save Our Cities F From Il Themselves T The e lIe melting meeting ting of ot the anti at the banquet in Salt Lake City Monday nIght was itt iti n. n Striking t resemblance to the i plight of a patient up upon vh fu 11 doctors have determined to perform rm a major op operation A Ac br ing to reports it was a representative representative representative rep rep- gathering and included inc liquor or dealers brewers special pleaders and even men men ts-men men of th the cloth whose exalted vocation isi 15 the rescuing of souls fr from m the Maelstrom of our money money-fr money frenzied Vo world Little wonder that the members members mem mem- bers of the committee a to tov v whom h ad had d been referred the statewide statewide state state- wide prohibition bill w were r elis t d by the speakers speake 8 for being represented by a bare quorum at Jt l meeting that was dignified by bv the presence Of shepherds of of the the flocks 1 Then too it must have Been a great di disappointment app to those who plan planned this coup when they l learned arned o much bottled eloquence must be wasted wasted on on n the Uie ether Evidently there are arc re some so some t ell well meaning meaning but but deluded pe people in the metropolis who bt believe that their city would drift straight into bankruptcy if jf nit t were deprived of the r revenue revenue reve reve- ve nue which it received s from the liquor traffic They have failed failed failed fail fail- ed to consider the fact that the bulk of this revenue is contributed contributed con con- tn buted by that element of our p population that has no money to spare This is evid evidenced by b the improved condition of the homes of many families families- t ies in in Ephraim and other towns that have adopted prohibition notwithstanding prohibition notwithstanding the fact prohibition does not prohibit What if our taxes were higher than under under un un- un der the rule of the tyrant Rum Kura The Rum The families that pay the taxes are those w who o own property and can afford to pay But the great fact remains that hat no man has a right to consider material interests when moral issues are at stake Ill fares the land rand to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates s and men decay The banquet at Salt sait Lake should convince the sagebrush legislators that nothing ing less ess than li K a major operation w will ll re relieve relieve relieve re- re lieve our big b g cities and ana while they are preparing the patients for the ordeal they Can an assure those who are ready to mourn that the operation is n never v r fatal i if the pat patients patient's ent's heart action is f fairly irly good and his ailment lias has hot trot progressed too far |