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Show STATE OFFICERS SHOULD WAKE UP. Last week a drinking man was arrested ar-rested in Ogden When brought before the police court he confessed to having left Salt Lake City to avoid tie temptation temp-tation to drink. He named many places in the capital where be could buy liquor This morning a citizen of southern Utah was taken into custody in Ogden. He was homeward bound from Wyoming with a liberal supply of strong drink. The Standard would prefer to have slate officers accept the responsibility of making Utah dry', instead cf placing plac-ing the burden on the authorities in Ogden. There are two reasons for this. The state officers have their headquarters in Salt Lake. That city-is city-is the one great offender against prohibition pro-hibition and evidently no serious or well directed effort is being made there to close the holes-in the-wall. The law provides a fund which the su'emur is 10 use, u necessary, m enforcing en-forcing the law. Why not get busy? Ogden is one of the gateways of this traffic in liquor which originates In Wyoming, but Ogden Is not obli-gatrd obli-gatrd to stand guard for the entire state If we properly regulate our own j affairs we shall do all that is to be expected of one community. The state officers sboold perform the srreater task of a state-wide surveillance. sur-veillance. nn |