Show SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION In an nn article In the Iho American Review ne of or Reviews lows already quoted In these theo columns Mr Ir Ferdinand o lc talks of or Tho The Nations Nation's drink Anti Crusade After referring to the progress of t the ternI temperance tem tern I perance c wave as It sweeps across the country the writer sums up what ho considers to ho hc the causes and antI In doing so utters titters n a terrible arraignment against the tho American saloon ns os It exists today lie He says There are reasons why the South should take the lead in this prohibition movement It was necesSary necessary sary to remove the saloon from the negro t to save Southern industry and civilization Booker T. T W Wash Vash Washington sh ington the other day said caid The abolition of the b barroom is is' a blessing to the negro second only to the abolition of slavery Besides the South Is intensely American In the 14 Southern states there are Ire but 16 foreign born persons person to every 1000 inhabitants In Ohio California Pennsylvania New York Illinois Illi 1111 nois and anti Wisconsin there are foreign born persons to every 1000 inhabitants But nut there are Jre reasons deep deeper r than these which have made such local success in the South The 1 negro question has had nothing to do with prohibition In Maine Kansas Kansa North Dakota Oklahoma Ohio nr Iowa The work of abolishing the saloon meets with the least resistance in the plantation sections of the South and the rural districts of the North but it is going on In the cities clUes as well In the manufacturIng manufacturing j turing city of Birmingham AI Ala Atlanta Ga GI Knoxville Tenn Term and In many of the manufacturing cities of New England and in large residential districts of Chicago and other cities the same conflict with the tame came spirit is being waged The liThe present temperance upheaval is s the revolt of the American conscience against what It considers to be wrong The American ln saloon can blame Itself l largely for the present opposition to it It i is' is essentially essentially essen essen- I bad Aside from the inherent danger of the business under the wisest pos possible restraints re the liquor dealers rs of the nation have set sel themselves to do their very worst to provoke alarm The saloons are Ire the place breeding of all kinds of vice and crime In them the thieves the murderers ballot box stuffers grafters purchasers of law and the debauched find their education and protection and from them the lawless hordes go forth to prey upon society The only wonder is that the people have stood this menace to our civilization as long as they have While it is not universally so it Is too often the case that the saloon fosters and promotes the social evil Another thing lhing that ha has stirred the public against the liquor traffic has been the relationship between be o tween the politician and the saloon No feature of American public life is so to o abominable and discouraging discouraging discouraging aging as this open and notorious cop of the liquor traffic with politicians of all parties In the business of crime It is an astounding fact that most of the great greal cities of the country are rufed ruled by rum and have been for a generation or more The liThe liquor dealers themselves confess to the badness of the present American saloon Each class Is charging the blame on the other At Ata a meeting cf the Brewers association at the the Astoria Waldorf-Astoria in New York city recently the blame was laid at the door of the retail It was charged that the saloons many of them were filthy dens and that the business had to be reformed reformed or the people of the country would destroy them The retail rebil liquor dealers in their conventions have been saying that the brewers In their greed for or money have multiplied the saloons beyond all reason holding them down by their mortgages and makin making it Impossible by the fierce competition which has been forced upon them I to make a a living and pay off the mortgages without introducing the disorderly house and gambling as putting up money fo for r graft and otherwise breaking the law The brewers say the fhe fault is with the distillers the distillers say the brewers are to blame They both admit the public has hasa a a grievance |