Show o SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION conducted must cea Is a That the American saloon as at present the average saloon is cease e. e expressed opinion of many of or those who have given any at all to the liquor question White While A there are 1 Some me who rho think that the sale and use of liquor might not o of or itself and if conducted rightly U f be bo productive of Irremediable evil there are arc comparatively few of of the people who are giving the matter matter mat mat- 0 ter much thou thought lit who alto arc are ready to defend the liquor traffic as It is at nt prese present t found foun fou d in those parts o or of America where prohibition or something akin to it is not enforced 0 It Is a n recognized fact however that the remedy reme y If such Is In to t be applied must como come from the peo peo- 0 pie This was the theme themo of or a n talk by fie Rev Francis Burgette S rt pastor patOr of the First Methodist Episcopal Epis copal church yesterday ar Dr Shor Shor- sal said j i I IU a crime against the imperative needs of humanity Self Self- U Extravagances arc always and everywhere also the advancement of human humanity's uman- uman also retard 0 indulgences not only work to the undoing of the participant they itys ity's weal Extravagances are also a sin against both self and society Therefore extravagances extravagance should 0 be avoided studiously avoided studiously avoided voided The necessities of life belong to all honest toilers but the extravagances 0 to none 0 The liThe American people are surely extravagant At least some of them are for last year fabulous 0 amounts were spent for the extravagances of life Eighty millions of dollars were spent for toffee coffee Coffee one onehundred onehundred A millions for jewelry sewn seven hundred hundred hundred and seventy seventy eight eight millions for confectioneries seven for intoxicating U and fifty millions for tobacco and one one- billion and five hundred millions beverages and liquors 0 All thinking right people are opposed to all extravagances and in n proportion as these work in injury in 0 jury to the people their opposition increases and intensifies No thinking right man fails to see the 0 colossal evil of intoxicating drinks as it expresses itself in the ruined hopes blighted lives and d immature imma Imma- o and faithfully and well country 0 ture turc ending of those thos who otherwise would v have served their community before the liquor business is an an n extravagant recognizing as never o 0 These Thes facts the common people are o 0 gant gart menace to their every interest It Increases their taxes it blights their lives and wrecks ecks their homes It assaults the innocent and the helpless both directly and Indirectly It robs the workingman o 0 and md his family of the blessings which his toll alone Ione guarantees In the days of adversity this business does not come to the rescue of the needy and the helpless for for these and many other reasons we the common people are determined that the traffic in Intoxicating liquors In this country shall cease and that It shall hall cease soon 0 It lilt is not the friend of any hU humanitarian Institution not the Inspirer of any noble impulse nothing Q about It is conducive to human happiness But It Is our greatest enemy the enemy the destroyer of mans man's fondest hopes and his immortal ruin In view of these facts we believe the time has come for us the common com corn Ic And believe the time we mon men people to free ourselves and this nation from our greatest enemy x others and become a saloon less U is fast hastening when this splendid commonwealth will join with many state 0 I Ix Who is going to accomplish this heroic and noble task The answer is the good common people x of every denomination and of no denomination we must remember that the saloon business has many manyx x loyal opponents outside the churches i U Is ls Utah ready to o adopt a local option constitutional amendment Yes if all good people are ready to do their duty And If the rum traffic Is wron wrong the people should be ready to do their duty at the first opportunity and thereby place Utah among the dry states state of the Union Major Richard W. W Young believes in prohibition n not because he lie t thinks it would absolutely do away with the liquor traffic but because he be says such regulation as has bas b been en in force In Salt Lake Lak for example example example ex ex- ex- ex ample has hns proved a failure Prohibition n he thinks would do much more in lessening the drink evil than ever regulation did In Salt alt LakeI Lake I III have always believed as I believe now said Major Young that thit there i ip iJ a certain proportion of the human race who will demand and get by la la or or unlawful means mean alcohol in hi one form or or- another I II I 1 have never believed and dont don't now believe th that t prohibition will will- prohibit I J For these the ce reasons I have heretofore stood tood for fop high license rather than prohibition but I am now convinced that high II license cense and regulation are arc a failure High lIcense In this city and such regulation F l. l ur r rC C e vi have I iad ha ye ch not ot the saloon from becoming with a few exceptions the moral ulcer of but 0 uL n my humble Juds JUdgment ent d demands ands no not homeopathic doses dose of high license and I f Uld be e dlf ic tn l 73 b t S e f S fe O f r o Jf m many any ip Ills em emanating ma tl 9 from rom t the e average sa a J a d 1 U. 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