Show I T SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION With T the Utah Uta Saloon Anti League reporting marvelous gains lu In membership In cYer every part of the state and with Mrs Irs E. E E. E Shepard head bead hea for Tor the state W. W C. C T. T U welcomed in every community community- i by y the tho voters who Irro Irrespective tt cU ot or weed creed are arc eager to Join the work the resume of or the organized work against t the saloons saloons saloons' Sound found ID In a recent Dum number er of or the American Review nC of or Reviews nc Is of or peculiar interest here bere After Arter summing up the nations nation's cruea crusade e against drink Dr Dr rt says It It is not only the badness of the American saloon that has caused this revolution but also the marked awakening of the public conscience against all III kinds of wrong v and hence the saloon comes in for its share of rebukes and opposition The temperance reformers and organizations of the past and present have been exceedingly active e and Ind each without an exception has been an import nt factor in the great mor moral 11 upheaval up up- that is down co so m many drinking places The Womans Woman's Christian Chri tian Temperance union the Good the National 11 Temperance Publication Society the third party Prohibitionists and the National Reform Reform Reform Re Re- form bure bureau w and kindred societies have all been active in tHeir fields but the one organization which has done more than all others in giving wise vIse direction and successful results to the present temperance revolution o 0 tion has been the Saloon Anti league Th The institution is compactly organized in 44 states and md territories with a national state and district su- su For 13 years this quiet work has been going on on Sundays besides that done on week days and it is 13 not necessary to go very far away ay from t this s uni unified sympathy and action of the churches of America to find the chief cause of this tremendous moral upheaval There is scarcely a In session ses see sion this year at which the Saloon Anti league does not have some measure or measures unfriendly to the a 0 liquor traffic and th the restrictive temperance legislation of most of the states for several years has been han died by official representatives of the Saloon loon league Many rich men generously support this organization tion flon but there are lre annual contributors to Its campaign fund which speaks loudly of the popular sympathy and power which It possesses Many who are arc not members of any church or even even total abstainers abstain abstain- ers commend and anti unite In the work of the league In Iii the interest of law lav lavand and order and arid civic righteousness 1 Will prohibition prohibit Relatively yes Absolutely no Prohibition never does absolutely prohibit 0 1 any form of crime that crime that of murder theft arson forgery or perjury The courts and jails all attest the truth L. L J of this The of liquor dealers dealer that more rum is sold In a state under prohibition than under license 1 Is hardly to be taken seriously for if It were true they would be working for prohibition Instead of shivering with fear and filling the papers and Ind conventions with alarm at the tidal wave of prohibition and loudly calling for organized help to resist and prevent its destroying them You cannot make men good by law law so so many people and papers paper are saying now Yes you can Fully t V one-half one of all that Is good or great in man has had to be beaten into him by authority Moral and political progress is always along the stages of advances and retreats How long will this temperance movement continue without a reaction No one can tell Very likely till every state in the Union shall have tried the experiment of prohibition by local option or state action While there are more saloons than churches while the liquor traffic continues to t its treasury enough money each year to torun toury run every department of the federal government government executive executive legislative Judicial navy army postoffice treasury treas treas- I ury and every other interest the interest the whiskey men will not surrender without a fierce and long struggle But the present revolution Uon will result in greatly reduced individual consumption of rum in the manifest diminution of the sale of liquor and in the destruction of the American saloon in its present form O |