Show I SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION While there are many topics now before the nation EO fO prominently as as to bo be called Issues ot of the lla day on Oll which perhaps U h great majority of the tha people do not care caro to express an nil opinion the control bf Of r i the le liquor tra traffic c is not on one one of thorn them Not eer every one cares to have bao his opinions expressed In public print hut but nearly every one has bas some opinion on which ho lIe is ready to talk and even oven to act when the time co comes es I 1 o Absolute prohibition finds comparatively fe few advocates as an imme immediate ia e step even among those who think that in the end It is desirable and Is coming cominS' But Dut that there thore is In some quarters an impression Int In InO t O favor of even state wide state prohibition is evidenced by jy the statement of a n former Cormer resident of Kansas yester yester- 0 O day This man is not a teetotaler himself but rather is an admirer of the German method metho of controlling conti V the sale 0 cf rf liquor Yet he said 3 Prohibition fn In Kansas was at first rather a fizzle But it has gradually come to b be a success The 1 taw law has created a public opinion against th the use of drink the moral effect of which cannot b but t be good goodO goodon O on the tic young people of the state O I Of cour I always could get liquor and I suppose it may be obtained yet But ut there are so many manyx x safeguards thrown up around the blind pigs' pigs that n not t very many people will take the trouble to get it it o Ii The is that the younger generation I is growing up J In the belief th that t. t it is no not th the correct thing to toa a 0 drink and that it is a dl disgrace gr to be drunk When I was a boy those things were quietly passed over over 0 as everyday occurrences C Therefore although prohibition in Kansas ha has not absolutely prohibited 1 am in favor of the enactment enact n ment merit of prohibitory laws A number of communications have been received b by The TIle Republican taking various positions on the tho x question at Issue One Ono of these against 1 prohibition reads as as' as follows as-follows follows a U You said you would v print letters from the ether side I am not in fn favor of of prohibition I do not want you to pu publish my name I h have written it at t the e top of this letter You must not print it Maybe Maybo MayboU U I am a coward Anyway J I do not want my name printed 0 Put me inc down as just one of the citizens of Salt Lake one of the taxpayers I am that I pay n more than a hundred dollars a year in And I do not believe in prohibition c Suppose we wc had prohibition tomorrow C Could uld y you u enforce enforce it WilO would arrest the offenders Who x would th the offenders b You know them and and so do I I. And there ther is no police officer who would pull O U them And no sheriff And no one else C o There would be more drinking than there is noVi now And there would be no revenue from It The Theo o 0 saloon aloon license v be lost There would v be no less cri crime e and t the 1 e c courts would cost just the same U o and s sa would the prisons And there would be no money from saloons and from breweries and from distilleries dis 11 so that you could meet the bill bills x The liquor sold would be bad It would be rot Men would drink k rp more mare re of it than they would of a the good if they could freely have the good Boys would feel they were wre dared ared and they v get drunk V You loll would have a system of spies No man would know if his neighbor was waG watching him There U would v be spies on the dealers dealer and lot lots of perjury I do not believe prohibition would be better for the people popIe That is the way it seems to me mc And there are other reasons than I 1 I. I haye given you Please do donot donot donot not print my name Maybe I am a 1 towar coward J but 1 I do tIe not ant v it ft printed I have given you my name and you can find out I am a responsible citizen of Salt Satt Lake OO |