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Show low to Prohibit II You Cannot Regulate" Rev, Elmer I. Goshen Aiki This Important Im-portant Ouestion. Salt Lake City, May 22. At the Klrst Congregatlonnl church yesterdoy morning, Hev. Klmer I. Goshen clearly clear-ly defined his position on the prohibition prohi-bition question. While at no time did he defend the saloons, He declared that he did not believe prohibition would prohibit nnd thought It would be better to havo well regulated s.i-loons s.i-loons than to havo dives that would not be under the control ot the law. Several times Dr. Coshcn asset ted that tho people were to blame for present conditions and that It was in their power to remedy them If they would but find out what thoy wanted nnd then stand together. Ho declared that If tho present laws wero not sufficient suf-ficient others should bo enacted and that tho people should sea to It thut the officers of the law enforced them. In opening Dr. Uosheu snld that he leallzrtl that tho problem was a grave one In which there was n wide difference dif-ference of opinion. He dcclnred Hut each should bo entitled to his own opinion on the matter and that the calling of hard names would not help to solve tho subject. Continuing, he said: What Real Question Is. If any one lias come here this morning morn-ing expecting to hear tho saloon eulogized, eu-logized, ho had better be excused now In the beginning, for he has sureb come to tho wrong place. Tho saloon has made Itself to be an evil and n very expensive evil. It has made It self to be an organized political power until It controls national, state and municipal politics and councils." It has made Itself to be bold, brazcn-fuced nnd audacious, and It tho question were whether or not there should be any saloons In all our country, or an) liquor In all our country, I, for one, would not ask a minute to fix my 1'iillot. Hut that is not tho question. The-questlon Is whether we shall have liquor sold under tho law, or wheth-I wheth-I er wo will have liquor sold outside the jlnw, und that Is Just the question. I Whether we shall hue the saloon! j that can be controlled, If we want to I control it, or whether we shall have' the blind pig, the hole in the wall, or I tho bootleg, nnd tho Illicit cctner In the drug store, and for one I bellcie that It Is the part of wisdom, for tho piesent, and under our conditions to ! hundlo this difficult mutter through t operation of law. It is always and for-jeer for-jeer better to have nn eill In the open than to have It In ambush, and with the conditions In Salt Lake Clt I us they are, I believe that, to pass a piohlbltory law would bo to transfer tho whole problem fiom the open and , to dtlie It to coer, where Its evils I would be magnified nnd not diminished. |