| Show SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION No farther aWa away than Just across the imaginary line that separates Utah from rom Colorado the fight between between between be be- tween the saloon baloon forces on the tho one hand and those that desire local option on ott the other has recently been waged with wilh greatest fierceness The antl men are Jubilant over the tho results In tho the various towns of tile the portion of the state stale kno known n as the West Slope and particularly at Palisade The feature ot or the fight there was waG that a few days before the election the town clerk cleric ruled the names of or tlc the prohibition candidates candi dates or drys off orr the ballot on technical 1 grounds The Tho result was that tho the supporters of that movement 0 had to write the names of or their candidates on oa the ballot A A. campaign oC or education was as begun begun Including 1 public meetings meetings' and aUlI a house to canvass with the result that a substantial majority was gained for forS forthe all handicaps handicaps- S the dry men despite 1 c Hotchkiss the only emily wet town ton on the tho Gunnison between Grand Junction and amI Montrose also voted for x local option and in ever every other town on the West Slope with the exception of or Glenwood Glem and Newcastle U the lie temperance hosts won on the day tIar There was great rejoicing in honorof honor of the victory as the tho battle in InU 0 U almost er e every case caso so had been bitterly fought U Of or just such battles as arc are going on in Colorado and antl such as it if is the hope of or the tho saloon anti league forces to have started in Utah one ono of or the members of the state Judiciary ju spoke yesterday when ho he said I have been through the thc prohibition fights in two hyo states and 1 1 do not want to engage In this just yet J A wave of temperance seems to sweep sv over ove a country every so often orLen I suppose that in their own good time the people will settle this as everything else that becomes a public issue and I know that in this as well asin as asin asin in other things the right will prevail Of course we must realize that prohibitory statutes are purely a dead letter Jetter until public sentiment is isI I overwhelmingly in favor of it it And Anti of course I do not mean to say that partial prohibition is worse worse than no prohibition But this country will never hav have ab prohibition until the matter has been made one n Q 0 x cf national legislation 0 Thomas R n. Cutler general manager of tho time Utah Idaho Sugar company takes a a. stand against lion on the lire ground that it H is an unwarranted restriction of personal privilege At the lie tame falDe time Mr Ir Cutler Culler states slates that he lie is not opposed to local option I I nave been giving this matter m much ch thought for many years now said Mr Cutler and I 1 think the proper course Is not to compel a man to be bc goed but to appeal to h his is moral senses and to educate them I have not so 50 much sympathy with the man who thanks God that he has never been tempted as with the man who has been put to the test and has stood it Personally I have nver professed to be a 1 and my father always had t a t on hi his table But I never liked the stuff But I think more will be accomplished by other channels For example the tile great corporations will have nothing to do with the man wh who is an habitual user of intoxicants They cant can't trust him And t that at fact about as much as anything else will work in the cause of temperance Prohibition has never in any instance that I 1 have observed ved done very much good where it tried It has made some men more anxious anxious' to get the t stuff duff simply because it was prohibited and this was was an added delight They gloried in in bringing it II t in because they were to told Id not to And so it will be I 1 think as long as we attempt to co compel a m man n to refrain in Instead of appealing to 10 himAt himAt him At the same time I have no objection to local option If a precinct for example dees not want a saloon saloon sa sa- sa loon in its midst t let the people say so 8 |
