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Show REPEAi QUESTION BEFORE VOTERS The campaign for repeal in Utah, which culminates on November 7, will be educational in every respect, it has been announced by Franklin Uitcr of Salt Lake, president of the Utah League for Piohibition Repeal, in opening the campaign. "We expect to show the people of Utah that prohibition has failed to encourage temperance and that it will be decidedly to their advantage to vote for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States ami also for repeal of the prohibition clause of the Utah state constitution," said Mr. Riter. "Utah cannot afford to vote against repeal in view of the attitude taken by thirty-three other states who have all voted for repeal," he continued. Mr. Riter announced the appointment appoint-ment of R. L. Olson of Ogden as campaign director for the repeal forces. Mr. Olson is a past depart-meidf depart-meidf nbmmander of the Ameran Legion and is well known over the state. He has been active for months in the league which sponsored the repeal of the state constitutional prohibition. Mr. Ol.-on made the following fol-lowing .-ummary of the situation: "Many have gained the impression that those opposed to prohibition want liquor and nothing e!-e. That is entirely wrong. We have liquor now; plenty of it and it is not hard to ob-! ob-! tain. In 1910 I voted for canilidatesj I pledged to prohibition because I be-! ; lieved prohibition would improve con-j ditions morally. I continued a prohi-: I bitionist until a few years ago. Ii discovered that prohibition did not prohibit the use of intoxicating liquor and it did not promote temperance temper-ance but on the contrary it e!courag- ed promiscuous drinking because! liquor was driven into the homes and' in social circles where it was unknown un-known prior to 1918. j "The Utah League for Prohibition' Repeal is not interested in liquor but! it is interested in good government.' We now have throughout this anl, forty-seven other states, a disrespect! for law and order that is shocking, i Prohibition made crime profitable.: "From an economic standpoint it; A-ould be foolish for Utah to remain dry while states surrounding us are! wet. Liquor would come over the borders from four directions and this state would lose hundreds of thou-, sands of dollars each biennium in revenue. We must therefore vote to repeal the prohibition clause of the state constitution and leave it up to the people, through the legislature, to j enact good regulatory measures.; When that is done, the forces now, organized for repeal will join with those opposing repeal for strict en- forcement of liquor laws. By no means should we let the bars down! on the enforcement of good strong; i ,, laws. Mr. Olson pointed out that in order to vote for ratification of the twenty-first twenty-first amendment to the constitution of the United States, it is merely necessary to vote for the twenty-one delegates pledged to vote for ratification ratifi-cation at a constitutional convention to be held in Salt Lake, December 5. In order to vote for repeal of the prohibition clause of the state constitution, con-stitution, it is only necessary to vote for a constitutional amendment which will repeal Section 3, Article 22 of the state constitution. If this amendment amend-ment is voted and the prohibition section sec-tion of the state constitution is repealed, re-pealed, the liquor laws on the statute books of Utah will still continue in force and effect and law enforcement officers will have sufficient means of bringing liquor law violators to justice. Also, if state constitution prohibition is repealed, a new law-will law-will go into effect January 1 permitting per-mitting the sale and manufacture of 3.2 beer. |