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Show BREAKING DOWN THE UTAH LAW Information reaches Tho Standard that a campaign, secretly launched, is on to break down prohibition in this state. Appeals aro to be made, first to the business men, in an effort to make the law odious. Wild reports are to be circulated of high-handed proceedings and abuse of personal liberty, and the public Is to be made to feel that grave wrongs are being perpetrated. Then, in the name of fair play, the heavy fisted are to be called to help pull down the pillars of the temple of law and order. We are informed that the prohibition prohibi-tion law is today openly violated in Salt Lake City; that on Second South street, not half a block from Main street, liquor is being sold to any one who wants to buy; that in the cafes waiters deliver whiskey in paper bags, and serve men, women and girls. Before this disregard for tho law becomes commonplace, the good citizens citi-zens of Utah had better hold an indignation indig-nation meeting and openly condemn very officer responsible for falling to do his sworn duty. We do not want a state infested with bootleggers, and sneaking liquor profiteers disguised as respectable caterers. If the people do not want prohibition, prohibi-tion, and are unequal to the task of commanding respect for tho law, let us go back to the open traffic, in which men of responsibility are licensed li-censed to carry on the trade. The Standard predicts an upheaval when the people generally understand the nature of the attacks now being made. Utah, even from a business standpoint, stand-point, should be either thoroughly "dry" or saturated with liquor. If this state establishes a name for sobriety, thousands of families In other Inter-mountain Inter-mountain states will move hero, but If wo are neither one thing nor the other, oth-er, all classes those who want drink and those who do not will evade us. They will spew us out as they woujd lukewarm water. |