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Show Campaign Outlined By State Repealists The campaign for repeal in Utah, which culminates on November 7, will bs educational in every repect, it was announced by Franklin Riter of Salt Lake, president of the Utah, League for Prohibition Repeal, in the opening campaign. "We expect to show the people of Utah that prohibition has failed to encourage temperance and that it will, be decidedly to their advantage! to vote for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States and also for repeal of the prohibition clause of the Utah state constitution," said Mr. Riter. "Utah cannot afford to vote against repeal in view of the attitude taken by thirty-two other states who have all voted for repeal," he continued. Mr. Riter announced the appointment appoint-ment of R. L. Olson of Ogden as campaign cam-paign director for the repeal forces. Mr. Olson is a past department commander com-mander of the American Legion and is well' known over the state. He has been active for months in the league which sponsored the repeal of the state consti'utional prohibition. Mr. Olson made the following summary sum-mary of the situation: "Many have gamed the impression that those opposed to prohibition want liquor and nothing else. That is entirely en-tirely wrong. We have liquor now; plenty of it, and it is not hard to obtain. In 1916 I voted for candidates candi-dates pledged to prohibition because I believed prohibition would improve conditions morally. I continued as a prohibitionist until a - few years ago. I discovered : that prohibition did not prohibit the use of intoxicating liquor and it did not promote temperance but on the contrary it encouraged promiscuous, drinking because liquor was driven into the homes and in social so-cial circles where it was unknown prior to 1918. - ' "The Utah League for Prohibition Repeal is not interested in liquor but it is interested in good government. We now have throughout this and forty-seven other states, a di&respect for law and order that is shocking. Prohibition made crime profitable. "From an economic standpoint it would be foolish for Uteh to remain dry while states surrounding us are wet. Liquor would come over the borders bor-ders 'from four directions and this (Continued on last page) jCampaign Outlined By State Repealists i . i J (Continued from page 1) ; state would lose hundreds of thous-! thous-! ands of dollars each biennium in reve-! reve-! nue. We must therefore vote to repeal I the prohibition clause of the state i constitution and leave it up to the ! people, through the legislature, to enact good regulatory measures. When that is done, the forces now organized or-ganized for repeal will join with those opposing repeal for strict enforcement of liquor laws. By no means should I we let the bars down on the enforcement enforce-ment of good strong laws." Mr. Olson pointed out that in order to vote for ratification of the twenty-first twenty-first amendment to the constitution of the United States, it is merely necessary to vote for the twenty-one delegates pledged1 to vote for ratification ratifica-tion at a constitutional convention to be held in Salt Lake December 5. In order to vote for repeal of the prohibition prohi-bition clause of the state constitution, it is only necessary to vote for a con-; con-; stitutional amendment which will re-' re-' peal Section 3, Art'rle 22, cf the state constitution. If this amendment is voted and the prohibition section of the state constitution is. repealed, the liquor laws on the statute books of Utah will still continue in force and effect and law enforcement officers will have sufficient means of bringing bring-ing law violators to justice. Also, if state constitution prohibition is repealed, re-pealed, a new law will go into effect January 1 permitting the sale and manufacture of 3.2 beer. . |