Show i SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION m I Ono of or the most powerful arguments used by the opponents of the American saloon Is tho the lot Jot lotof of tho child The saloon cannot exist without boys is a fl common placard Whole hole regiments of at little girls have ha I been enlisted at times to carry banners through the streets of cities where the fight was waging Mothers have labeled their bab baby carriages with placards appealing to the voter to safeguard tho the American home There may be exceptions of course but as a rule the attitude e of those in Utah who are most closely In iii- iii in the the welfare of children is against tho the saloon saloon certainly certainly against the saloon a ak l It Is commonly known in man many cities On Oil this point Dr E E. G. G Gowans iowans ju Judge ge of the Juvenile court of ot the Third Ju Judicial iclal district of gave gae a strong interview yesterday There are re two things said Dr Gowans which more than any others contribute to the Indifference of parents and the maintenance m of unsatisfactory homes and which are thereby responsible for a very large larae part of the d delinquency neglect and delinquency of children They are the e extremes of poverty and wealth and drunkenness Every American m child is entitled to be well born and to be reared In a home of of culture refinement simplicity and common sense ense These con conditions do not exist where there are arc extremes of poverty pov erty or wealth or where there is drunkenness By all means let Utah have prohibition If if not this then at least local option But better a rigid prohibition When children seven nine find nd ind fourteen years old can come Into the Juvenile court and complain corn com plain against th their ij parents for cruelty and neglect when a young girl almost a woman will lodge a complaint com a 0 her father for indecent conduct when four little le plaint plain against helpless children will lie in fn filth and want a 0 for six ix days at a time while the mother is dead to the world and to her maternal when C o n intoxicated parents will send children of tender years into the lowest dives of the city for more liquor a li when parents parents God God save the mark mark wili will so f far forget their responsibility ns as 9 to feed liquor to children two two O x three and four years of age when a mother at a time when her mind and body should be beas as pure as an ii angels angel's will villi do that which transmits to her yet unborn child an irresistible her hereditary tendency when a aman 0 man will brutally maltreat and abuse buse his own mother who is doing her hep best beat to care for his motherless C o 0 children when girls of fourteen fifteen and sixteen years can be taken into wine rooms of saloons and a 1 booths and stalls of restaurants and there be made drunk and ruined when ruined when all these thin thinas and many o more which have come corne under ou our per personal onal observation in Juvenile court work worle can be charged directly to I the liquor traffic will ill anyone who wants to see tee the American child come conic into his legitimate birthright say x that such a traffic should be longer tolerated U I PLEAD FOR A FAIR DEAL FOR THE CHILD IN HIS OWN HOME 0 The IThe saloon must go Utah must be bc placed in the right column 0 a 0 0 0 ex |