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Show HB Prohibition Decidedly HfjjT on the Wane. Wm Undisputed Facts Con- Hf' firm the Statement. tt IHm "As I have said, the city would1 lose $65, 873.60 per year for HoenBe fees and Jnxes, and what would the city and hi the people gain in compensation for V i this enormou6 annnai lo&s, approxi- ij mating to nearly a halt million of dol- lars? What would society gain? What would the morals of your community gain? Your people here in Ogden are no different in their composition from the people of other cities of this 1 1 nation. You are no better and you M, are no worse. Your average of ln- M ' telllgence is no higher, nor is it any M j lower. And so it seems to me that M j you may safely inquire respecting the M ,; experiences of your neighbors, and the M j. conditions that you are threatened M with. Does prohibition lessen the con- M Biimptlon of intoxicants? 1ast year M there were released from bond for H consumption more than 11,000.000 gal- M ; Ions of spirits In excess of the num- M ber released the year before; more H than 3.1S0.000 barrels of "beer. Does H t that look like a falling off in con- H sumption? And this notwithstanding H' V the fact that the prohibltionsts have H 1 boasted that they have nine dry states H . and that a large percentage of the H area of many other states that are H not wholly dry Is under prohibition' H Now, you may "ascertain this fact from H ; where? From the same source that H ' i I derive my knowledge, from the one H l proper official source, from the on H , reliable source that is indisputable, H l from the report of the Commissioner H 'V of Internal revenue. H I Does prohibition prohibit the use of H I Intoxicating beverage; and ask! those H $. cities that have tried prohibition And IH I ask those cities that; have- tried pro- jf hlbltlon and then abandoned why they j did 1L I have seen, upon the dead walls of your city an advertisement h t I speaking of the wonderful progress of H J prohibition. Aye, nrohlbltlion did car- H ' . ry everything before It for a time, H but for the last eighteen months the H -wave has been constantly receding. H . And therein lies a lesson most valu- H able to tho Inquiring honest mind, I ALABAMA. I On the first day of January, 1909, H h prohibitory law enacted by The Btate H -I of Alabama became operative. The I ' Supreme court of that State held cer- H . tain provisions of the law to be uncon- H i stitutional, when Governor Coinax I "' one of the most pronounced and one I of tho moat ardent prohibitionists of H tho nation, convened the Legislature of the -state In extraordinary session I In the month of July of that year, I and that legislature enacted another I prohibitory law more drastic than the j ilrst, and at tho same time submitted j the question of a constitutional amend- T ment providing for the prohibition ' of the manufacture and sale to a vote of the people. The election was hofd i on the 29th day of November, 1909, and constitutional prohibition was de- . feated by 27,000 majority. That does not look as though prohibition were Eucccedlng In Alabama. MASSACHUSETTS. ; In the Puritanical mother state of Massachusetts and I speak of the old ( Kta'to and her magnificent history and of all her legends and her traditions with the. utmost veneration and re- - t Bpect, because it was out from the strength of her loins, it was from her ' muscle and her brawn and her mighty intelligence that much of the middle j -west country was populated, aye many ! of these mountain passes, those beau- ' tlful valleys and these deserts I stood I beside old Plymouth Rock only a short ! time ago. The identical rock is there as they claim, to which was anchored that little, frail craft that brought to tho shoros of this nation the fa- ! th&rs and mothers of us all. And 1 hnve heard people speaking about a l part of our citizenship and character- j izlng thorn as1 foreigners who havo j-B no business here, and as I stood be- WJ Bide that rock, with all of Its sacredlv SI ! hallowed memories that speak in mut'o i language a history that will resound J i down tho ages of all time to come : I said to myself: "Who were these j hardy immigrants who left home, the 1VM ' acones of childhood, the associations I ihat were most dear to them, and j anchored here "Why, they were for- I elgners, and all who came since wore foreigners. And why did they come? J They came to escape that same spirit 1 i of intolerance upon -which rests the if i fabric of prohibition." (Applause.) I ( There were those old Massachusetts 1 j cities that tried prohibition; Worceat-I' Worceat-I' j w er, with her population of approxl- MT mately 150,000 souls, tho largest pro- I ' hibitlon city In the nation, tried pro- I I if U "hlbltlon; Fall River tried it, Now Bed- ! h. tfc' i ford1, Fitchburg, Gloucester, Haverhill, l i M I And then what happened, Mr. Prohl- I ljl l)itlonl3t? They abandoned prohibl- Wi Una. after having tried if. That was ' Hi a year ago last December. They have their elections there every year in the month of December, and last December they had their elections there again, and they refused to go back to prohibition. MICHIGAN. Over in the state of Michigan, made up largely In the constitution of her citizenship from old New England and New York stato and Pennsylvania, they had prohibition. They have there now what is known as county option The county of which Marshall is the county seat Battle Creek, a name familiar fa-miliar throughout the nation, is located lo-cated in the county, Jackson, Pontlac in Oakland couatv, the count of which Cadillac is tho county seat ail these counties tried prohibition and abandoned it ILLINOIS. Down in the State of Illinois, Rock-ford, Rock-ford, one of the most Important cities of northern Illinois, Dixon, Deratur. Streator, De Kalb, Effingham, all of these cities tried prohibition and abandoned aban-doned it. Why, Mr. Prohibitionist. If prohibition Is a good thing? Do you I mean to say to mo there Is not the ! same measure of intelligence, of religious re-ligious conviction and religious thought and action, or such devotion to the moral and social wolfarr c-f those coinmunitijo as von have hore? And why will you not learn from these experiences? OREGON. You speak of the progress of prohibition. pro-hibition. Last I all .n November nn election was 'eM in -U-e-pn. 1 here they have the Initl-i:!", and the i-ro-hlhitionlsts JniMi'od a bill to -imcnd the constitution, and provided (er state wide proalhition of :hc manufacture manu-facture and sale of Intoxicating; hcv erages. Tho nntl-prohihltionls'S lr-itlatcd lr-itlatcd a home rule bill. There wn." a mighty fight in the state. It ma-.' re Baitl that tiie people if that .siule were educated upon boMi sides of rh.- proposition, both by oi:im- and by press, and Oro,j3n refused ti ingraft prohibition unon he ronntiunon ly a majority of 20,000, a.'id adapted heme rule. IDAHO. , My friend has spoken of the State of Jdaho. Idaho has county option. The Republican pnrty went to the electorate elector-ate of that State last fall with a plank In their platform pledged to statewide state-wide prohib'tion, and with Governor Brady a candidate for re-election, and everybody knows that Governor Brady is an open prohibitionist. James H. Hawley of Boise City was nominated against him on a platform that opposed op-posed state-wide prohibition, and Governor Gov-ernor Brady, who had been the Governor Gover-nor of tho State, preaching the doctrine doc-trine of prohibition not enly In 'Idaho but outside nf Idaho, was defeated, and there with the ladies voting, too. (Applause.) SOUTH DAKOTA. MINNESOTA, NEBRASKA, MISSOURI, WISCONSIN WIS-CONSIN AND OKLAHOMA. Over in South Dakota they refused to submit prohibition to a vote ol the people. In Minnesota, after a most strenuous battle, the people of the state refused to elect a legislature legisla-ture that would enact a county option law In Nebraska, notwithstanding the fa(ct that the peerless leader, whose fortunes I followed in three campaigns, was in favor of county op-Hon, op-Hon, the people of the state repudiated repudi-ated his advice, and refused to elect a legislature that would enact a county coun-ty option law. Missouri defeated prohibition pro-hibition by a majority of 200,000, Jn Oklahoma prohibition was sustained by a majority of 20,000, and It should have been sustained bv a majority of 20,000,000, because the" bill that was proposed to amend the constitution was an iniqu'tv upon its face, a disgrace dis-grace to the decency and the intelligence intelli-gence of tho electorate of the state ALABAMA. In Alabama they elected to toe office of-fice of Governor the man who had led the fight azainst constitutional prohibition prohi-bition Emmett O'Neill and a legl.-latu'-e that would repeal the prohibitory prohibi-tory law, and tbe law has been repealed. re-pealed. In Florida state--.ld. prohibition prohibi-tion was defeated. In Georgia. and you hnve heard so much of Georgia, Tirohibition Georgia! whv, didn't you know, my friend unon thp other side, didn't you know that the prohibition law of the state of Georgia became operative on the f.'rnt day of Januarv, 1907, Knd on tho ICth day of the following fol-lowing August they discovered a'bllnd-pJc a'bllnd-pJc doing a ver lucrative business within the four walls of the capital building of the state o' Georgia" r Applause Ap-plause and laughter i Tho Georgia legislature will convene this month of Juno, and 32 of the 4 1 senntor. and 115 of the 1S5 i!.ei.ibrr. of the lower house of the Georgia legislature are openly pledged to repeal tho prohibitory prohibi-tory law or the state of Georgia. Whv, if prohibition is a success' INDIANA. In Indiana a legislature was elected to repeal the county option law, and tho county option law of Indiana has been renealed. And there stands out a man right in the limelight, and how we do admire his courace and how he is respected and loved for It, Tom Marshall! (Applause ) My friend, tho prohlbitioulst, why should I hosl-tate hosl-tate fpr a moment to go out and speak on this side, when I have standing be-side be-side me such men as Govornor Marshall Mar-shall of Indiana, and Patterson of Tennessee, 'and Fred Plalsted of Maine and Emmett O'Neill of Alabama, Governors of these states that have tried prohibition and who are now avowedly against prohibition. MAINE. In Maine, that old Republican stntc. always reliable for a ruostantial Republican Re-publican majority, where prohibition has reigned these sixty-one yenrs, tho people of the state wear'e-1 of the hypocrisy, hy-pocrisy, because It was nothing olse, and at the election hold la8t September, Septem-ber, they elected a ' legislature, that was pledged to resubmit to the vote of tho people the question of constitutional consti-tutional prohibition. And the legislature legisla-ture at Its last session, under the leadership of Fred Plalsted. who is a son of the soil, whose father was a Governor before him, under the lead- "ership of Fred plalsted tho legislature of tho stale of Maine, whero prohibition prohibi-tion has maintained for throe-score years and more, has resubmitted tho question to a vote of tho people, and (ho election will be hold in SoptembeJ next. IOWA. My friond speaks of Iowa. Jowa had complcto prohibition from 1SS4 to 18S9; I might say 13.92. Th people of the stato arose In rebellion ngalnat the policy' Why. Mr Prohibitionist? And I don't use this term In any of tensive sense; I apply It to the class. Whv did that Republican majority of thestatc of Iowa overturn Itself, and, you elderly gentlemen will remember, elected old Horace Boyco to be Governor Gover-nor of the state? And the legislature of the stato enacted what is known as the mulct law, under which and under un-der tho regulation prescribed by which licenses -may be granted, and today the fair bosom of tho stato of Iowa Is 'bedottcl with saloons doing business busi-ness in a lawful way. Why. if prohibition prohi-bition were successful? Your newspapers news-papers may dispute these things, but their dissertations are untrue. ARMY CANTEEN. Why, there is another experience when prohibition was tried. You remember re-member that a number of years ago, the good ladies of tho Women's Christian Chris-tian Temperance Union. and I say good women, yes, a3 long as they maintain the principles to which their organization Is devoted legitimately, they are doing good work, because they are working for true temperance but the difficulty Is that too frequently frequent-ly they have been led awav from thlr moorings by sensationalists, they went doTvn to the Congress of the United Stntes, and they 'mportuned Congress to enact a law to abolish the army canteen. Do you know what the army canteen Is9 It is the enmp saloon. It Is the saloon In the National Soldiers' Home. With what result? Every departmental commander of the Federal army without exception, the governor of overy National Soldiers' Home without exception, sixteen of the eighteen chaplains of the Soldiers' Homes, In their last departmental and official reports, recommended the ro-establlshment ro-establlshment of the army canteen to the soldiers at the Soldiers' Homes for the dispensation of the mild intoxicants, intox-icants, ibeer and light wine.v Why' Many of these officers nre prohibitionists prohibition-ists Even General Miles recommended recommend-ed the re-establlshmont of the can.eon for furnishing tho soldiers with the mild beverages, beer and wlno. and every one knows that he Is a pro nounced and avowed prohibitionist. Why, do you dispute the proposition7 Why, don't you know, my countrvmen. that these official reports are all matters mat-ters of solemn record, accessible to you undoubtedly contained in vour public library. If you havo ono here? Go there and learn for yourselves. oo |