Show l SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION r rl The Tho work being eing done dono In Utah and throughout the United States by Y the Saloon Anti league lull and the I alms of or that organization the success of or which ha has bas of or late attracted considerable attention arc given ihen In a D statement by Rev Rcy Louis T. T Fuller representative of the organization in Utah as aa follows o I The Saloon Anti league of America is the moral forces in action against the mc S saloon loon having for its object the repression and suppression of the beverage traffic of strong drink It is undenominational 0 I O and omni It ha has now been organized in Jn au all the states and territories in the United States 0 O 0 and is a vast federated force moving just as fast and far as public sentiment will allow it it to go and o 0 fortifying every advance made t t O 0 The Saloon Anti league operates under three departments namely The dep department of agitation department of legislation and department of law lav enforcement Under the first first department the league has about men everywhere in the United States denouncing the monstrous evils of the thc liquor traffic 1 crystallizing public sentiment and opening up channels through which this s sentiment ent can be utilized They are printing and circulating tons of literature and arid arc are working practically da day and night These men Ire are preachers lawyers teachers judges and even cven governors of states state who frequently count it a privilege to to speak speak on this all absorbing issue t o 0 Under the department of legislation we seek seck the enactment of such laws as wi wi further restrict and prohibit the tile saloon That the league ha has succeeded in this department is tremendously y in evidence in nearly every state in the Union Under the department of law lav enforcement the thc league endeavors to secure the enforcement of all X laws lawa regulating and prohibiting the b beverage traffic of strong drink This This This' department ha has haa co o far succeeded succeed succeed- ed that few men today will risk their reputation for Information and veracity by sa saying ng that prohibitory la are inoperative This movement is the first great reform in human history reduced to an absolute business ss basis Apart from the moral sentiment Involved business men all over the country are arc turning to this movement as a good protective force that directs immense volumes o of money through legitimate legitimate lines of trade and industry The Saloon Anti league has been at work in Utah UtaJi nearly six months There is a fine temperance sentiment in the state The great ma mass s of the people are overwhelmingly against the saloon By test votes in audiences of more than 2000 people at mass meetings in various parts of Utah we h have ve found the people unanimously for a good county local option law which shall give the people the right to say ay whether there shall be saloons in the county or r not The county is the natural unit and no law can be more mere just or d democratic than the option for the count y The people of Utah feel fel they are entitled to advanced temperance legislation The Thc beverage traffic of strong drink has made more bad fathers more wayward mothers more marc dissolute dissolute disso disso- lute daughters and profligate sons than all other vices in modern civilization The caloon oon has done more mor to ma make our municipal policies a hissing and a word by-word in this nation than all ail other evils combined and has no inherent right to exist only by the sufferance of the people up upon n whom it preys The people of Utah arc are awake to their rights and will certainly record in wholesome temperance laws at an early date their splendid temperance sentiment and training The Saloon Anti league movement ic is really a great moral and civil upheaval against the saloon The mightiest reform in human hi history tory It is evident to all thinking people e that the saloon is to be be bc eliminated eliminated elim dim mated from our civilization and at no distant date The liquor people are desperate Distillery and brewery stocks are rapidly depreciating in values The drink sellers eIlers are filling the tile land with false and misleading literature The statistics of the vast sums Eum invested in the liquor business only reveal the great amount of money paid across the bars cf this country by the poor victims of drInk bringing to them no value in return but corr corresponding wretchedness wretched wretched- ness poverty and woe Th These tremendous sums invested In legitimate te lines linca of trade buying of homes and proper investments investment would be infinitely better and more profitable able to 10 all The liThe liquor advocates ar are ars Deceiving no one but themselves Th The of saloon windows with this matter will only act as a boomerang Tho The liquor traffic can not stand the light S 5 |