Show j SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION Some facts as to the Importance the tho saloon anti fight has attained throughout the nation at large argo are arc given ren in a n recent number of or the Review of Reviews whereIn Ferdinand Cowle Iglehart writes or of The Nations Nation's Nations Nation's Nations Nation's Na Na- tion's AutI drink Crusade The Tho article Is all the more Interesting to the people of Utah from the tho fact re reference reference re- re ference Is constantly made to the tho a awakening wakenIng of or an ton saloon anti feeling in Utah as simply a part of a wave 0 t that at has swept over the country in very cry recent years rear an and Is still gathering momentum Mr lr Iglehart Iglehart In Introducing his subject says ln In two thirds cf ef ail nil the territory of the United States the saloon has been abolished by law I lw Forty ye lr p gm there were people living in territory where the sale of liquor was prohibited Now there are people unde under prohibitory law Since that time the population of the country has doubled 0 while the population in prohibition territory has increased tenfold There are people In the tho 0 1 fourteen Southern States of whom are under prohibitory law lav lavin in some form In 1900 there wre viere under prohibition in the United States now there are In eight months statewide state state- I wi wide e prohibition h has 1 cleared the 3 saloon from an area as great as France In that area there is a solid U block of territory miles north and south by miles east and west in which on the first day of next 0 January a 1 bird can fly from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean and from the boundary of Tennessee to 11 the the Gulf of Mexico loo looking ing down upon a legalized saloon Great Britain and Ireland could be set 0 c down d vm ever over thi this space apace without covering it There would be square miles of dry territory left as a ax x border O. O Thi hit is s not the first wave of prohibition that has swept over the country four Fifty years ago there o cc W v. was l one that swept sept over the Northern States with as great violence as the one that is now passing over the theo o South Then Maine New Hampshire Vermont Rhode Island Connecticut New York Delaware Michigan Michi Michi- 0 o i gan Indiana and Iowa lev by acts of their legislatures forbade the manufacture and sale sOlie of intoxicating liquors 0 o F a as a beverage Nine Nine Northern sta states tes went dry in a single year the year 1855 1355 0 o The liquor men dazed and fright frightened ned at the revolution set them themselves relves desperately to resist it By Byo Byone ByI o I one pretense or another there was widespread nullification of prohibition n. n One state after an another her receded from its radical action until ne nearly all adopted the system of license So that up to 10 a year ago of the eighteen eighteen A J teen states that had hac tried the experiment of prohibition only three three Maine Kansas and North Dakota remained in the ranks they having adopted constitutional prohibition Will the present prohibition I legislation be ephemeral like that of half a century ago or will it be permanent permanent per per- manent There is every reason to believe that it will be permanent There were more elements of permanency permanency pero per per- o in the earlier movement than appeared on the surface for during all the years that the st states o were falling out cf of the prohibitory column the people were steadily removing the saloon by local option I till at the time there were but three e prohibition states left the liquor tr traffic had been abolished from two two- thirds of the occupied by one half of the population of 01 the United States Of the p people peo opie o- o pie who have expelled the thes the's saloon only have done so o by state prohibitory laws and have effected effected- the removal 11 by local option |