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Show M OGDEN MANUFACTURERS' AND H BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIA- M TION'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST M PROHIBITION HHHHJ i . - H Association's Headquarters Second Floor, Utah National -Bank H Building. Phones Bell, 995 ; Ind., 376. CARL H, ALLISON, Secretary. SALT LAKE CITY CAMPAIGN. H' Hj Prominent Business Men's Views on H' Liquor Question. H i H Well Known Citizens of Utah Express H Themselves Emphatically. H W. S. lUcCornlck. I believe It H would be the ruination of this town H to have prohibition. II would set it Hj back to where it would he 10 years In H recovering. I am opposed to prohlbl- H! tion because it docs not prohibit. It H causes more clandestine soiling of H liquor than It would otherwise. A man H wanting a drink would bo satisfied H with one If ho (secured it In a saloon, H I but if he had to go around and find It 1 ho would buy a bottle. Ttfe city B I would receive no lcvcnue. H It has been figured out that the H revenue to tho city from the liquor H traffic is $235,0fJ0 a year. There arc- Hi 135 saloons In the city. These would H nil bo left vacant. The revenue and H the taxes paid on goods of the saloon- H keepers amounts to about $400,000 a HH year, not to mention lents and tho HJ persons employed through the liquor H traffic. This would all be lost, Hl I am for temporance. People have H to bo educated up to it. High license H and strict regulation, so that the dives Hj cannot exist, will do most for tern- H pornnce. Prohibition will not. H With the commission form of gov- H crnment in operation. I helleve there H will be sufficient safeguards thrown H about tho liquor buslnessgto make it H a law-abiding business. Only those Hl places which are respectable will con- B tinuo to exlsty H D. C. .Tackling. Absolute prohibi- H tion is just as foolish as to try to j compel a man to abstain from the use H of coffee and cigars. It Is certainly H foolish to attempt to prevent a man H from doing what he wants to do, H what he intends to do, and what he H has the right to do. To enforce a pro- H hibltion measure is to make men de- H baso themselves. It engenders dis- H honesty and deceit. Besides making a H man an addict to tho habit It makes H him a liar and in addition to that H makes him a thief. There Is a class H that wants liquor and is going to Hi got It. I believe that it is better to B recognize the liquor question than to H force people to be sneaking about get- H ting liquor would cause the drlnk- H lng of liquor to be more flagrant than H If it were recognized. I am radically, Hj distinctly and unalterably opposed to H prohibition. Prohibition 'in Salt Lake M -would bo an industrial disaster. Hj Louis Cohn I am opposed to Salt Hl Lake going dry. My opposition comes Hj from a purely business standpoint. I 1 have been up against all kinds of local 1 disturbances, but I regard this as the h greatest danger we have had to cope H with. "Wo Avoro getting along smooth- H i ly in the last two or three years until H) th,a tnlnS came along and upset ev- 1 crythlng, for it is far reaching Then j besides, I am opposed to sumptuary laws as curtailing a man's liberty; 1 and iri this Instance I can see confis- 1 cation. We have large brewery prop- H crtles involving large investments, fl which, of prohibition prevails, will l be wiped out. 1 Judge O. W. Powers The whqle ef- 1 fort to carry the citv for prohibition fl is a mistake. It would be a detriment 1 to public morals and business; it is 1 impracticable. I was convinced of H1 t,l5s when acting as a prosecuting at- B torney In Michigan, In prosecuting 11- H quor sellers under the prohibitory fl law. I don't drink myself at all, and fl until I took up these prosecutions H was inclined to favor prohibitory leg- , islation. But my experience showed fl me prohibition to be impossible and B impracticable. The prosecutions M brought out perjuries and pre-emlnent- M ly the fact that it was Impossible to HI enforce the law. The trouble with Ml tho good people of this country is j that they do not see that the lnws are HI enforced. They imagine that as soon M as a law is placed on the ' statute 1 books that is all that is necessary. H That th aw may remain a dead Ml letter from non-enforcement docs not Beem to occur to them. Miqhfgan v.'ent from license to prohibition, and then to local option, and is now prac- ticaliy "wet" all over. H ' Kev. Elmer I. Goshen I certainly do not favor prohibition in any form H because it will be of no efTecL Un- M der the conditions In a city as large M "s this I believe it will increase de- Hl bauchcry, rather than diminish iL If Ml -we have the power to prohibit, wo Ml certainly have the power to regulate H I believe that boys can be kopt'away MH from saloons, but I know they can- MH not be kept nway from the bqotlegger. M John Q. Critchlow The adoption ot H prohibition In Salt Lake will be dia- M I a3trous to our business interests If H this city goes drj you can shoot a j cannon up and down JIain street at M noon after the election and you won't M hIt anybody What we want is regu- H i lation, not prohibition. You can M make the state aud city drj, but you M cannot make tho people dry. What H ' tho jeoplo want is strict regulation, H In such shape that It can be controlled. B Henry J. Wallace Personally, I he- H lieve prohibition in Salt Lake would M be worse than to have It a wet town H I prefer strict logulatlon in such a H ( place as this. What sense is there M , in tring to enforce such a law in a M community where public sentiment ' iH does not uphold It? If the saloon's H , nro abolished their place will bo tak- H - on by blind pigs and speakeasies. Ev- IH ory subterfuge posslblo will be re- H sorted to to avoid the law. In Provo, H Brigham and Logan where prohlbiiion M j obtains, there has been a notable in- H crease of the number of government H licenses and drunkenness increases. IHI Joy H. Johnson I am naturally very H , much opposed to prohibition. I think M it would be most detrimental to the M . community and to the state at large l from a business standpoint. Prohlbl- H' tion laws are never enforced as they H nhould be, and consequently prohibl- H' tion does not prohibit. President l1 Commercial Club. Hl i D. A. Callahan My experience does H not lead me to favor prohibition. 1 B toolieve It would be better to license , and regtdato the traffic. I bear in mind what has occurred in Rhodo Isl- and and Connecticut in connection. ftW with attempts to enforce prohibition, IfVAv and If it cannot be enforced there I ! do not see how It can be enforced in western or far western towns. Hl j "Tfy not recognize the real explan- Hli' atlon: that we have not ono inch of AM prohibition territory, aa yet, In the H ' B;! whole United States, and "dry" states with "wet" capltols, much less "dry" 1 counties with "wet" court houses, can never settle the drink question." Na? tlonal Prohibitionist, March 25th, 1311. Ono million, two hundred and thirty-five thousand working people are employed by the liquor manufacturers and the allied trades. Every vote for prohibition torrltory is a vote to take Jobs away from these worklngmen and throw them on the open labor markot, thus reducing tho pay of those in other trades. Industrial depressions invariably follow fol-low prohibition majorities When you drive out tho licensed and rosulated saloon, you invito Into your community tho criminal who defies the law and soils liquor through tho medium med-ium of tho Blind Tiger and Bootloggor. The licensed and regulated saloon will not sell liquor to your boy, but the keeper of tho Blind Tiger and the Bootlegger will soil to any person, without regard to age or condition Your boy will not be as safo under tho Blind Tiger regime as now. Under prohibition it will be a crime to sell liquor at all. Tho criminals will run tho places where liquor will bo sold. It will be no more of a crime to sell to a boy than to a man. Your boy will not enter the saloon, in full view of the public, but he may bo enticed intolho basement or tho second-story "joint," where he cannot be seen What, indeed, would the saloon keener amount to in this struggle, Jf ho really stood alone and had not tho people behind him, who have tho want and the desire for that which ho supplies? Why, he would be brushed aside like a feather Without tho demand de-mand for a saloon in a community, no saloon could exist there for one soli tary hour. And mark you further, it is not the saloon that makes the people of a community what they are, It Is the peoplo of a community who make the saloon In that community what it is. Our teachers and preachers, therefore, upon whose efforts the advancement and tho betterment of mankind rest, should devote their energies to the conversion and redemption or the delinquent citizen citi-zen who creates the bad saloon, rather than waste those energies in futilo attempts at-tempts to cure his delinquency by merely destroying that which he creates. The Prohlbitionist'B Favorite Question Tho people of the United States spend approximately ?750,000,000 annually an-nually for beer. Why this tremendous economic waste? If the urinKers am not arm iuoy would be able to buy better food and clothing and as a result other lines of trade would prosper at the expense of tho unholy traffic. Is this not truo? An Answer. The people of the United States spend approximately eight hundred million dollars annually for candy, chewing gum, proprietary medicines, hair olf and such frippery which are an abomination in the sight of all self-respecting healthy men. They pay millions for coffee, which may possibly be beneficial to them, but which may be poison to you and mo. They pay millions for strange creations crea-tions in food stuffs made from the fish of the sea and fowls of the air, all ot which could 6e dispensed with because be-cause of not being in your opinion or in my opinion absolutely essential to the maintenance of life In the human body and which is probably Injurious to the one who eats them. We lavish millions every year upon the adornment and dress of" the women wom-en of this country. This Is not absolutely abso-lutely necessary to preserve their existence ex-istence according to your views and my views and it is probably harmful to tho women, although they may think It essential to their happiness and contentment. Now then, why this tremendous economic waste which by comparison makes the liquor traffic too insignificant insignifi-cant to speak of. Why not say to those manufacturers who produce the goods used In these wnstcful, extravagant, frivolous and, in most cases, harmful fashions: "You are a menace to the health and morals of the country and you must close up shop." Any medical man will tell you that candy and confections have sent more Infant souls to heaven than whiskey has sent drunkards to the other place. Shall we therefore toll the candy manufacturers of tho country to discharge dis-charge their many thousands of men, close up their plants or convert them into pickle factories? to discontinue forthwith! get out of Shall wo tell the dealers in coffee business or better still sell Lipton's tea' Shall we tell the proprietary medicine medi-cine men, the perfume men, the hair oil men and the jewelry men that in the now order of. reformed economics, designed to prevent the waste of wealth, wo propose to get along without with-out them? Shall we suggest that they convert their factories into brick yards, stove founderies. or devote thdir attention to good old fashioned pills, an industry indus-try that can b'e safely recommended when this new order of food and drink is put into effect? Shall we sny to the dressmaker, tho hat maker and the other needless barnacles bar-nacles who now keep us poor, that we noed the mpney and that they must close up shop, make automobiles or snow shovels, we don't care a continental contin-ental which? Shall wo Hay to them that tho naturally natur-ally sweet disposition of the men of this country has been soured by dressmakers and milliners, that "woman "wom-an is tho root of all evil" nnyway and that we may decide to let her go with the rest for economics sake? Now then: If thoro Is any man in the United States who is willing to go homo to his wife with a doctrine of that kind, a creed which embodies the elimination from his daily llfo of absolutely everything that Is economic waste; that Is not necessarv for the maintenance of breath in tHe human body; that contains an element of frivolous friv-olous extravagance; that has a hnrm-ful hnrm-ful propensity and that all 'such commodities com-modities of whatsoever .kind are to be forever banishedrjrbm -tho ken of his1 little world, thenwill I-fc&ree that he is a braver man 'than I, or that ho is a perfect living example of the present day prohibitionist, but I will not agree that he Is competent to judge what Is good for mo to cat and drink. |
