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Show I ROORBACK We are1 informed a rumor is H even published by posters and H being circulated in Ogden, and is M streamers, that the first presiden- H cy of the Church of Jesus Christ H of Latter-day Saints desires Salt M Lake to vote in favor of the H liquor traffic. This is false and H contrary to their public utter- M ances of the subject. M (Signed) H ANTHON H. LUND, H JOHN HENRY SMITH. H LEAVE THE SALOONS ALONE, H AND THEY WILL LEAVE H YOU ALONE? To the Business Men of Ogden: H Ex-GoVernor Larrahoo ot Iowa says: M "l used to think, year ago, that as M loner as I loft the saloons alone, thoy H -would 'leave me alone. H "But I was engaged in .business for H twenty years, during which time I per- M ' mitted sevoral thousand dollars' worth H of accounts to accumulate on my s books, M "When T sold out and attempted to M collect these, I found they were worth- M less, and that nine-tenths of my debt- H ; ors would not have been so, had it not Hl been that they had been spending their H money for strong drink while I kept H ' their "families In provisions. H 3 "It waa therefore apparent that as a H . matter of fact, I had been tho greatest H ' patron of the saloons In our communl- H Ity. H "I had really contributed more to H the saloonkeeper than any other per- H son In town. H "All of us, no matter how temperate H , we are. will some day learn that we H I are directly concerned1 In tho saloon H traffic." H SALOONS EMPLOY FEWER LABORER LABOR-ER ERS THAN OTHER ENTER-1 ENTER-1 PRISES DO. H Saloon advocates are appealing to H ' laboring people to vote for saloons. M If you are a laboring man or the wife, fl mother or daughter of a laboring man, M have you evor stopped to think that H the saloon Is the worBt foe to labor- Hf Bo you not know that the liquor busl- H ncss employs lees than one-fifth as H many laborers in proportion to the M capital invested as do the leading in- H dustrles in the production and dlntrl- M butlon of tho necessaries of life? j These facts appear from the report of H the national census reports. Therefore, H if the capital invested in the produc- j tlon of intoxicating liquors was in- H vested in other industries engaged In H the production of the necessaries of H life, it would give employment to more mB than five times a3 many laborers as it mB does employ in the production of mM liquors. Therefore, every laborer, and H the wife and mother of every laborer H should vote against tha saloon H WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH OUR UM BANKERS? B Governor Stubbs of Kansas sent the 1 following Inquiry to bankers in the M various cities throughout the state: mM "Has prohibition injured or bettered H the financial condition of your coun- M MM Forty of these bankers answered, MM "Bettered." Two answered, "No ef- MM feet." One answered, "Injured." One MM made no answer and one said he did H not know. H From this it will bo seen that in j Kansas, where prohibition has been j thoroughly tried, ninety per cent say mM it has bettered their people finanially. mM Why .then, Bhpuld any Ogden banker, MM except those interested In saloons, be MM opposed to prohibition? H ARE YOU HELPING TO PAY FOR UM THE SALOONKEEPER'S H AUTOMOBILE, H Are you interested in tho liquor traf- UM fie? If not, how do you expect lo be UM benefited by having saloons In this H cltv? Have you ever received any UM benefit from any saloon? Have the H saloons enabled you to wear better UM clothes? Have you been able "because UM of the saloons to better clothe or foed UM your wife and children'' Who gets UM the profits from the- saloon business, UM you and your family, or the saloon- UM keeper and his family? MM Tho saloon-keeper is able to own his UM own home and an automobile and has UM houses to rent. How is it with you' UM Have you been helping to build houses Hl and buy automobiles for the saloon- UM Iceeper? Why should you vote for UM saloons? Will you receive anv of the Hj profits? Talk these questions over M with your wife or mother, and then H vote to help yourself and your own H family and the community instead of H the saloonkeeper and his 'family. H THE WORKWOMAN'S GREATEST H "WRONG." H Since the infidel orator held forth Hj in our city, the whisky supporters are H very solicitous about the poor laboring H man who is crushed by our commcr- Hj clnl system. Wo are willing to agree H with you that there arc manv wrongs H in our syfitem of government which m need righUng, but the greatest of the H wrongs is the selling of intoxicating H liquors over the saloon bar. and we H do not propose to be sidetracked to H any other Issue until that one Is right- m ed. Then we will join wJth vou In H helping to right any of the wrongs Hl. under Tvhlch labor is suffering j WHY NOT A 8ALOON IN OUR RAIL- H ROAD SHOPS? H There are a great many railroad H taon and machlnlsta working in and- H through our railroad shops. Why H don,t tfao Harrlman system "establish Hh a saloon down in the shops? Thf H chances arethat it would be a proflu able investment- Do you suppose you could get an intelligent director or stockholder in the railroad to do a thing like that? Why don't tho Utah Construction company cHtaiblleh a bar I for the sale of liquor in its laboring camps? Can you find any legitimate business busi-ness that employs a great many men that would think of doing such a thing? And yet some of the business men of Ogden City will deliberately vote to establish saloons in Ogden City for the direct profit that they believe they are getting in the way of taxes, forgetting that they are losing far more ns a city by tho presence of tho saloon than they can poB6lbly save In taxes. If it is good to establish Baloons In the heart of a city, and the stockholders, the voters of tho city, so vote, why would it not be good for tho ra'.lroad company to establish a saloon right in the center of one of their big machine shops? Darrow, in his speech a few days ago, said that If you drink beer and whisky, you will not live so long, but you will have more fun. That depends de-pends altogether on the man's idea of "fun." If carousing on the streets, slobbering slobber-ing all oyer one's self, talking silly and wanting to fight constitute "fun," if an aching head, a parching thirst the next day is "fun," possibly Darrow is right, and you had bettor do as Cole said, drink more beer and whisky, have your "fun" and die OUR EXECUTIVES WILL ENFORCE THE LAW IF BACKED BY THE PEOPLE. We would think It very humiliating to the executive department of our government to argue that they could not enforco a law that a majority of the people at a popular election have enacted. If the peoDle desire to get rid of the liquor traffic, thev will elect an executive who will enforce their edict On the other hand, If they desire de-sire that the saloons shall run, the saloons will continue to dominate our politics and elect our officers, and while we do not believe the present council will repeal the present regulation regula-tion ordinance, which requires nine o'clock closing, Just as soon as the whisky, element has elected our commissioners com-missioners this fal (and that Is what they will do if they win this election) the ordinance will be repealed,, under the plea that the saloon keeper "ennnot make a living unless he can selljlquor for at least eighteen hours out of tho twenty-four. Close the saloons now and elect commissioners this fall who will enforce en-force the people's will "STRANGE BEDFELLOWS." An unknown writer for the columns of the saloon advocate in this morning's morn-ing's Issue of the Examiner, complains bitterly that the presidencies of the three stakes of the Mormon church. In this city have Issued a circular letter let-ter to the members of the church urging urg-ing them to do what they conceive to be the duty of every Christian, namely, name-ly, to vote against the licensing of saloons. This unknown writer declares de-clares that this circular letter was Instigated In-stigated by the "Ogden Dry Campaign Cam-paign Committee," of which Rev, F V. Fisher, ot thp Methodist church, and A. W. Agee, whose church proclivi-" tieB the writer says is unknown to him, are members I had never seen this letter and had no knowledge of it until after I hnd read tho article above referred to, but if it were true that I had in anv way been able to influence in-fluence the Issuing of such a letter to the Mormon people,, or to any other body of Christians, I should feel very proud of the fact, Tho wrltor of the article referred to, who did not have the courage to sign his name, declares de-clares that "the situation is humorous in a way" and then exclaims "Strange bedfellows " By the way, have you noticed no-ticed tho bedfellows chosen for this occusion by the Manufacturers' and Business Men's Association?" Evidently Evi-dently to the liquor Interests, there Is nothing humoroiiK in the fact that the Christian people of this city, without with-out regard to creed or nRrao, are putting put-ting aside all questions of difference upon other subjects and are working earnestly together for the abolition of the open saloon, the groatest foe to Christianity and to humanity the world has ever known. There Is nothing noth-ing strange about the union of Christians Chris-tians in this fight against the saloon. It is Just as natural that Christian people should work together to abolloh the saloon as it is for brewers, distil-lors, distil-lors, saloon keepers, gamblers and prostitutes to join in supporting the Baloons. What is strange, is to Rec business men Joining handB with these classes to maintain the saloon. "Strange bedfellows'" The writer ot the article in question states one partial truth when, in speaking of Mormons, Methodists and other Christian Chris-tian people working together in this carnpaign, he Bays: "It is certainly pleasing to now see the Christian attitude at-titude entertained toward each other." I say this statement is a partial par-tial truth only, because it is not at all pleasing to the saloon advocates to see Christian people united pnd working harmoniously against tho rum traffic. This is very .apparent from the offort of the writer to stir mi strife between be-tween Mormons and Methodists, but if this campaign for a "dry" and a better Ogdea accomplishes" nothing moro than to clear awav some of the i prejudices and "break down the mid-die mid-die wall of partition" which, have so" long divided the Christian people of , this state, and shall force earlier clos-Ing clos-Ing of saloons and a stricter enforcement enforce-ment of the law governing the llqupr traffic, even if we should fail jLo obtain ob-tain prohibition, ranch-good wilt have been accomplished: and iiere let me Bay that it la conceded hv-aW intelll-l ' .pent and falmrjinded- persons that 'E?V!,r "npromeni hasten made In this direction In this city has been broucht about through the efforts' or ' the Betterment League and the "Og- "don Dry Committee" and the advocates advo-cates of' prohibition and not by the - 'opponents of prohibition. The liquor 1 lirtorests haVo-' Apposed every '.'ftort I to1 curtail 'the evils of their traffic There '! nolhing too desplc:ihle for those. Interested .in the liquor tratllc fqTcsort td to defeat prohibition. In Salt Lake City" votteh e?gjs wqre 'thrownT.al if "pr)'b:tioiiir5po"aker, bV ralnldiigof h$. lityW trafllct jjjyen jib (Ogden whlletaecUrig,Jtof .tpe JSDry CommlUee" ljHwqr, leers ,wns recently bolrig'hpld it',a roonv In th,j .Weber Acndemy, an egg wan, thrown in through the- open window, and rotten eggs were thrown into the carriage , of one of the persons In attendance, and yet the advocates of saloons prate' about liberty and freedom of thought and action. Thpy resort to ail kinds of falsehoods to scare people peo-ple to vote In favor of saloons They would havo us believe that abolishing saloons would destroy our propertv. I have had abundant opportunity to obsorvc the effectB of having no saloons sa-loons In a city. For many years I lived near the city of York, Nobrnskn, a city which hns never had a saloon, and I personally know that It has outstripped out-stripped other cities In adjoining counties with equal natural advantages advan-tages and Is todnv, and always has been, one of the cleanest, most bountiful bounti-ful and prosperous little cities in that state. It has a population of about one-third of that of Ogden and, 1 understand, un-derstand, emuloys onlv two policemen, one during the day and one at nipht. Taxes aro lessj in proportion to the value of proporty than in this city. I might cito other instances of the same kind, but I do not see how any Intelligent Intelli-gent man or woman can supposo that the liquor traffic contributes anythinc to tho prosperity and upblilding of any community But even if a few buildings now occupied oc-cupied bv snloons become vacant and remain so for a time if saloons arc abolished In UiIb city, it would be much better for the community than to have thorn filled with that "which incites riot, fosters crime and produces pro-duces Insanity and pauperism. To sav that because any church urges upon its membership the duty of voting acainst tho saloon that chii'-ch -Is Interfering in tho political affairs of the state, is perfectly absurd. ab-surd. The election upon this question ques-tion was placed at a time when there will bo no other question to be voted upon, for the express purpose of taking tak-ing the question entirely out of party politics. The issue is a moral one To provide for" the licensing of saloons and vet to prohibit the presence of women hi( anv saloon, is a confession ' (iDon the part of saloon advocates themselves that the saloon is an unfit place for women to be, and if it is an unfit place Jor a woman to be it is also unfit for any man of good, moral, upright up-right character Therefore, In opposing oppos-ing j,ho licensing of saloons, the churches of our city are only doing that which tonds to elevate human character aud improve the morals of the community. Whenever our churches cease to do this, their usefulness useful-ness will be at nn end and they will no longer have any excuse for exist-HP. exist-HP. . A W. AGEE. Ogdonr Utah, June 21. 1011. |