Show I f fl I- I l SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION I Where do the tho women of or Utah stand tand tan on the liquor question Are Arc the they for Cor or against the continuation i of the traffic as It is at present exemplified In the American saloon If Ie against i It It what do they suggest i t In place of oC the present regulations national or wide state prohibition local option or strict regulation of ofte the te saloons with a higher license V Questions such as these have bare been put to several to of or the more prominent women or of U the e state during luring the past sl few weeks Almost invariably the answer has hl been heen that the tho women of oi the be state are re on the tildo of or morality nn and therefore are fighting the saloon 3 as It exists today Exponents can be found lound of local option wide state prohibition strict regulation But nut there Is apparent unanimity on the one belle belief that the saloon salon as it is 18 Is not r right I would vote for prohibition said Mrs s. Emmeline B B. B Wells I would favor local option but at the same time I am lm not sure that the proper way to get rid of this his immense evil Is not by high license and strict regulation One h hears ars so much about prohibition that does not prohibit Local o option lon to bevery be bevery bevery very good in theory but I have not informed myself with sufficient definiteness on the subject to be able to pass an authoritative opinion What I should like to see Is the license fee ee placed so high that the rascals would have to get out of the business The more that get out the better I suppose if the license were forced up to a l year or better it would mean men that many would have to quit and perhaps it would be easier elsier to w watch those that remain There can be no doubt that the saloons saloon as S they exist are an Immense evil L Yet Vot the women of Utah will wI be almost unanimous against the saloon The womans woman's suffrage movement move move- tf merit ment has always been inseparably connected with the temperance movements And the greatest opposition tion that the women have met has always come from th tho saloon element It is true that these states that have had woman's womans suffrage longest are not the states that today are lre in the vanguard In the fight s against the liquor traffic But thi this thia only goes to show that the contention I have often voiced Is right That womans woman's suffrage Is not going to turn the world wand upside down in a l day though in the end it Will J stand for better moral conditions condition and 2nd that woman has a right to a voice in the government of the country Mrs Philo T T. T Farnsworth on tho the other hand band while equally uncompromising In her antagonism to tho the saloon as It Is believes that the proper treatment is wide state prohibition There is only thing that I would rather see th than n wide state-wide prohibition she said ald and that is a 0 national law against the manufacture or tale rale of alcoholic drink as a beverage I do not know that 0 wide state prohibition would prohibit entirely There is always and nd always will be bea a certain element that A will break the law at every opportunity I am told and am confident that It Is true that saloons for example example ex ex- ample are lre open In Salt Lake on Sunday and that gambling is carried on in them They have a sort of legalized existence and yet chow an art utter disrespect for the law High license might accomplish something and would probably help Increase the revenues But what are Ire a few thousand dollars In rn the public coffers coffer to the crimes that tha are caused aus d by or originate in the saloons To the thousands of aching hearts and nd ruined lives that follow on the liquor traffic I believe In n no na compromise with this great evil and I am for fop wide state prohibition until we can make It a 3 national prohibition H T |