Show o SHOULD T UTAH AH ADOPT PROHIBITION Two Republican n readers who have hs written this paper concerning the question of ot handling the liquor traffic a traffic a topic which is apparently becoming more mo c and more of or present Interest tl Fest in iq state s state as ns well a 0 ans as ns throughout the country at large are large are str strOngly in In favor of oC prohibition as distinct fro from 1 local option or stringent regulation n of the S saloon S S SOne One letter deals in part with the economic side o of or the que question Uon particularly a as It affects the farmer S A farmer himself i the tho writer riter of this co communication has no o fea fearns s t to tho the result Tho Tho Tue letter Is li dated at Spanish Fork and reads a n as follows S S S Editor Republican Should Should Utah adopt prohibition Lets Let's see S Som Some people even some of those who do not use any my intoxicants say that the liquor r traffic and high license r redu reduces d es es taxes as lS great revenues are derl derived ed from the business It is true tue that high license reduces reS re re- S duces such as a. a city tax and arid the family that doesn't drink pays 01 a less tax on that account But what S S about the mans man's wife across the the street street t whose husband and sons spend nearly all alt of their time and money money for drinks and gambling They They P pay not only their own OW tax tax but part of mine too They are the ones that pay the high license They pay more than their share and th that t helps the other fellow But what a selfish excuse S S SI SS S I 11 raise between between 2000 2000 and 2500 bushels of brewing barley a year and some have h lve asked me nie what I 1 will wilt do with wit my y barley when I f get pr prohibition In force I tell them t that at I will make pearl barley and other breakfast foods besides feeding it to hogs hogsand and stop the importation of such articles If we wea all l look for O oUr own interests and not our neighbor in thIs respect we will never eradicate this evil We m must t. t help those unfortunates to o let go and many of them would welcome the day that made it impossible to get liquor They v kno w anti and we all know w that anybody can quit q it a vicious habit habit more moree e easily ily when there is no S S Utah Is late to start this reform Many other other states states' have have forged ahead But better late than nev never S S It t should Uld be easy to start and and maintain prohibition in this this st state te as most of th the people are supposed S to be of oJ a religious character There are many people who wanted prohibition long ago But But it takes S SS somebody to to start it and to say Let us do it S S 'S S alt Jt seems as if it has started now and therefore let us push the sentiment with our all all our might and nd ask for a chance to vote on it it this very next election If prohibition is is' not oot g good cd for for us let us not have have haveit it But if it is s let Ug us have it just as soon as possible S Some people say it will be a 1 failure but prohibition has not been een S tried in this state Local Lo 1 option has s been tried in sever several l towns and has been found foun a 1 failure Local option does not prohibit and the the dives o 0 they keep are worse place places than t the t-ie e. e open pen saloon saloon- both for old and young S Yes I am decidedly in favor of prohibition and if the majority of of- the voters of Ut Utah h do donot o not v vote tein in favor of strictly prohibition we we are are not true to our ur religion n. n f a any y state can control the liquor liquorS liquor'S S 'S tr traffic traffic- Utah can Yours for a prohibition that does prohibit A. A. A W. W JOHNSON JOHNSO John who is a n member oi or the thc Eleventh quorum of in Salt Lake Lak ake stake refers to Russia Russin as as- asan an example of oI what wha may my be bo dono done Q by- by prohibition His Us letter follows Liquor iq Is expensive and noxious drink it spoils il Natures Nature's s 's beverage water beverage water it cheats the the- stomach of its dues it c causes and increases i indigestion and nd other ailments Liquor worship a as at presS present present pres pres- S ent existing should be abolished nutritious A-nutritious health giving stimulating fluid could easily be substituted as s 3 a bev beverage r ge by the thirsty thirsty who dislike tile the ordinary 91 glass of wat water r which to too to long long has s been a 1 str stranger strang strang- nger ng- ng S er er to many Liquor as at a a beverage m may y safely be abolished and prescribed d. d only as a medicament not by bythe the the thew w w would would-be dri drinker ler ker bu but under th the usual conditions conditIon's I In ln t kino Ine f for for diseased diseased or impaired constitution s About About 13 13 years ago the Russian Russian S g government assumed d c control of f tl the S man manufacture fact re and sale of all ail 0 alcoholic liquors within the empi empire The ex execution lt c 1 of the la taw m making the trade trad an absolute te tego go government er 0 0 SI monopoly was begun 12 years ago when it was vas applied in eig eight t provinces Afterwards the system em 0 braced seven additional pro provinces and on January 1 1 1908 1998 th the whole cou country courtry try was brought under it its pr pro pro 0 I J. J visions It was expected that this system would do away with most of the thc abuses s of f the liquor traffic which were particularly ly flagrant in Russ Russia and to which many of its disorders dIsorders- soc social al industrial sanitary J and d economic economic could II in some degree be ascribed Lat Latest st reports from Irom Russia shoW th that f. f the injurious con conI consequences on- on I sequences of the of the traffic have been minimized by J g government ment control j tr and te f of i j ig s f. f oi liI j lanc i j n 7 t O t Jr t 1 t. t yf tt f tvA G i V T V iriT S. S the th regulation g r thereof thereof Is Is r question u of d degree and not wipe oia State r can n nalone alone do this S S |