Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-08-22 | Page 4 | To Vote on the Liquor Question

TO VOTE ON THE UPIJESTIQN Salt Lake, Aug 22 A prominent Pocalello merchant who Is at tho Hotel Ho-tel Utah was yesterday dlsou93lng conditions con-ditions In Pocatello and Bnunock county and throughout southern Idaho Ida-ho In general, and oxpreascs the be-llof be-llof that tho crops In that section will be record-brcakera this year. He states that never In tho agricultural history of the state have conditions been so promising and that the good feeling over the outlook for fall and winter Is general Speaklns of tho liquor election which will be held In Bannock county on September G, he stated that t,outh-orn t,outh-orn Idaho has experimented long enough with dry towns, which havo been found to he much wetter than those In which license and regulation has been the rulo, and that the better bet-ter class of citizens generally aro making a strong campaign to bring about a wholesome change. He states that within the past week some 200 of Ihe leading citizens of the Gato City have signed au nppeal to the voters vot-ers calling upon thorn to assist In changing the conditions, Inasmuch as approximately tho same quantity of liquor has been consumed boforo the dries won the previous election and that Its consumption has been In places and under conditions apart from the easv and natural visitation of police officers, and that the city and county has been shorn of revenue to no moral or financial purpose. All the signers are men who havo no Interest, personally or financially, In the liquor business, and they state that the history of the past two years, of local option prohibition has demonstrated demon-strated thoroughly that It has neither Improve 1 moral conditions nor assisted assist-ed In promoting temperance.