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Show EIGHTY-SIX LIQUOR PLACES IN OGDEN. When the W. C. T. U. met last Thursday, the prohibition and social questions were taken up and addresses address-es were made by a number of the inrluHinr Mro Shonard ;ind Mrs. Nye. During her lecture Mrs Shepard declared that three modem inventions the telephone, automobile automo-bile and motion pictures had contributed contrib-uted to the downfall of more girls than any other one combination of causes. In a paper on "Which Are More Often iolated. Prohibition or License LawB?" Mrs .1 C. Nye declared that there arc eighty six places in Ogden where liquor may be purchased, whereas the city Is supposed to have one saloon for every 1.000 inhabitants She said ordinary violations of license laws at the present time would be regarded by 'wet" advocates uuder irohlbltlon as conclusive evidence that prohibition was a failure Mrs Nye's statistics, we understand, were obtained from government sources sourc-es and refer to the number of inter i II r- )a,,nA I V. i a Udl rtrvvuu incudes iaourw in in'n city and. therefore, are reliable. Her criticism Is well placed, but we wonder why there are those who persist per-sist In declaring Ogden Is a cleaner city now then in the past, while every street In the business district must be alive with illicit dealers In liquors dealers who are selling strong drink under cover, while the honest saloon keepers are handicapped by a very heav y license. Eighty-Six internal revenues license? in a city of 30,000 tend to reflect not only on the sobriety of our people, but are a mark of discredit against those whose duty it is to ferret out the secret dens of crooked dispensers of wines and whiskies. ierndt out of his bed. led him Into -n dense forest and thrashed him with horn switches because he did not ! j provide with sufficient liberality for 1 1 his wife and five children. Threr g onrses will now be open to George "ne will he to organize a corps of forty whlppere to whip In turn each :f the forty men tlwt whipped him nother will be to make his family table gToan with luxuries, and fill the family closets with the latest style of clothing, and the third which he will probahh adopt-will be to sell out his Pennsvlvania holdings and light out for Utah, where a man can Mane hl family without molestation from meddlesome neighbors." .Mr Iladley. in a marginal note, makes this comment on the forego ing: "The onlv people who get hungry In Utah are those who. trying to get away from California, depart on an empty stomach." We do not know how to account for the fling at Utah except on the the-orv the-orv that southern California farmer in laiae numbers are moving to Millard Mil-lard and Juab counties in this state and a large Russian colony deserted the Los Angeles district to settle in northern Pox Elder county, and this loss ol population has Inspired the I ungenerous insinuation that Utah Is a I place where people starve or there is B lack of sympathetic community con-1 cern. Utah today is the most prosperous 1 state In the union and the people of the state are the most hospitable. |