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Show Improvement League and The Liquor Interests Become Be-come Faster Friends The two Logan newspapers have offered tholr columns to tho discus-elon discus-elon of tho issues involved In tho com ing olection. Tho Improvement League, however, la not coptont with this, becauso thoro Is not sufficient opportunity for slander, so they enlist en-list tho services of tho Ogdon Exam-'nor, Exam-'nor, a paper known to be controlled b Mauor men and generally recognized recog-nized also as spokesman of tho liquor Interests In this state, to do tholr nefarious business for them. Not only this, but tho mombers ot tho Leaguo are not willing to write up themselves so they bring into Logan a reporter from tho Ogdon paper. This gentlo-man gentlo-man has a brief conforonco with tho omniscient leadors of tho campaign here, makes a fow hasty Interviews nnd then proccods to paint tho town In tho blackest colors. Ho brings up for rldiculo and slander tho city administration, ad-ministration, tho county officials, tho Btato Institution, tho church, tho Democrats Dem-ocrats and Republicans. In fact ho does not lcavo a stono unturned In his malicious muckraking. Three thou sand or moro freo copies of tho paper nro then siattored broadcast through ou tho city. Thoso copies togethor with tho regular copies of tho paper which go throughout tho stato will give us a flno roputatlon won't they? And yot thoy call themselves tho Improvement Im-provement Loaguol It pretends to throw around the young pooplo of this city Us kind nnd protecting caro and to teach them loyalty, patriotism nnd citizenship. Ncr la this nil. Thoy go around town exhibiting tho names of prominent citizens whom thoy claim .JL to bo importers of liquor. This Is 9 childish. Tho question boforo tho voters ot Logan Is not whether members mem-bers of tho nettermont Leaguo or members of tho Imnrnvemont League drink whiskey or boor. It Is whether Logan shall tnko n atop backward and reestablish tho saloon with tho ovlls which follow in its wako. Somo of tho samo people who aro at present conducting tho campaign for tho liquor liq-uor lntoroflta, olghtoen months ago conducted a successful city oloctlon. At that tlmo tholr candidates mado tho following pledges. (Theso pledges pledg-es nro takon from tho flics of tho Logan Lo-gan Journal.) "If elected wo will enforce our lawB ot prohibition to tho limit . . Drunken men will not bo allowed to drlvo automobiles or walk on our streets, or lawlessness In any form tolorated." In splto of thoso promises they tell us that "any boy over tho ago of sixteen who has a reputation for discretion dis-cretion and tho I Inclination, can obtain ob-tain enough liquor in fifteen minutes to niako him drunk for two days " If this is true, then somethlnghas been wrong with tho enforcement of tho law. Until ono promise has been fulfilled, how can wo place any confidence con-fidence In promises to give us a well regulated saloon? Especially Is this true when tho promises como from tho samo source We aro told how bad Logan Is and how many bootloggors It contains. How many arrests of bootleggers havo been made during tho last year? Why has tho number of federal licenses Increased to C3? In Ogdon, which has opon saloons nnd regulat on, many more arrests In proportion to population, popula-tion, woro mado than woro mado In a I similar tlmo In Logan. Tho pooplo aro not going to bo docolved on this) proposition. Thoy do not expect to j undo In flvo or six years what has j dovolopod in Logan for fifty years, but thoy do oxpect to mako progress. Tho nottermont Leaguo bellovos wo havo mado progress, It condemns tho misrepresentations that aro bolng made, and It Insists .that wo make progress In tho futuro, but wo can't do It by reestablishing tho saloon. Tho Improvement Leaguo tells us that tho consumption of liquor in Logan Lo-gan is Increasing. If so, why in tho name of common sonso aro tho liquor men ot Ogden and Salt Lako spending spend-ing tlmo nnd monoy In fighting prohibition pro-hibition In Logan? No ono, no far, has rlson to explain this. Wo suggest sug-gest that theso citizens who know any bootleggers In Logan, go over to tho city officers and sco if their namci nro not found on tho list of those who signed thd petition for a liquor election. elec-tion. Just ono moro statomout about tho Moses Thatcher speech. A number havo complained bocauso wo did not put In tho dato of tho Hyrum speech. If that woro Important wo regret wo did not put t In. When Moses Thatcher talked before tho Con stltutional Convention ha opposed (Contlnuod on page four) IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE Hi THE JJQUOR INTERESTS (Continued From Pago One) stato wide prohibition secured by a lauso In tho constitution, but favored locnl option. W)ien he talked In l'y-rum l'y-rum ho was dealing with a local question ques-tion and favored prohibition. Wo agreo most heartily with Mr. Thatcher's Thatch-er's son that lijs father was a dear friend of young people. That Is why wo have published his prohibition speech. Publicity Commltteo, Logan Betterment League. Tho following letter from Henry East, sheriff of Utah county, Is self explanatory: Mr. It. J. Evans, Logan, Utah. Dear Sir: In nnswer to your letter will sny that I am pleased to' answer your questions. The prohlb'tlon law will prohibit Just aB effectively as a great many other laws on our statuto books. ' I' will say as to Lehl, I was City Marshal for n couple of terms under high llconso and strict regulations. I I also served a couplo of terms after tho town went dry. At that tlmo wets nnd drys woro pretty well divided, but today I feel safo In saying that Lehl Is ninety-five per cent dry. And as to Utah 'county In general thero Is very llttlo violation of tho Hrjuor law and crlmo has decreased fifty per cent. Effective prohibition depends entirely en-tirely upon tho officers, If tho offlters nro not converted to prohibition then It does not prohibit. In order to catch tho whiskey vender, ven-der, the officer must put In moro time and lay de.oper plans In order to con- 1 v!ct than ho docs for any other misdemeanor. mis-demeanor. As you well know I nm not n religious religi-ous man, but I nm thoroughly converted con-verted from my experience that Just as soon as you drlvo out booze you diminish crlmo In all Its forms. And as to saloons creating business I am unable to seo any argument in favor of them. If thero aro any other questions I would be glad to answor them. Yours truly, HENIIY EAST, Sheriff of Utah County, Utah. m o |