Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-06-30 | Page 4 | At Evanston in the Last Days

I AT EVANSTON IN THE LAST DAYS. On Saturday a delegation of Ogdenites attended the festivities in j Evanston. When the train carrying die local merry-makers arrived I at the western Wyoming metropolis, the streets were so crowded that those who had been partaking of Evanston's hospitality for a number num-ber of hours found it convenient to walk in the middle of the street where the whirl of the crowd confronted them with fewer wobbly objects. ob-jects. Those who have returned from the scene state that the description of the bacchanalian festivities of old in part would fit the events at Evanston. All Saturday night the procession moved up one street and down the other, while those who held to the railing at the bars refused to relax their grips. The dispatches of last night and today give us to understand that this same orgy is on over the United States wherever strong clnnk is to be had. This is a farewell to the saloon and to drunkenness, and a fitting farewell at that. Men arc making themselves addled or mad. Their mouths arc dribbling and their foul-smelling breaths are proclaiming their degree de-gree of intoxication. When they go home in their debauch, they will be sorry sights for women and children. Other places can have these scenes of dissipation, but Ogden continues con-tinues to express satisfaction over the driving out of the demon of rum and the reaping of a rich reward from sobriety. There is not a block in this city that cannot give a concrete example exam-ple of the benefits of our prohibition laws. Perhaps there is not a reader of The Standard who has not heard some one express thanks for the new order of things. There is some bootlegging altogether too much but drunkenness drunken-ness no longer obtrudes in homes where there is an honest desire to get away from old conditions. Our boys and girls do not see the staggering, blear-eyed drunk, as they did in the days gone by. The whole atmosphere is purified and the guzzler of liquor has become a sly creature, conscious of his weakness and of public condemnation. With the closing of the saloon throughout the United States at midnight, that institution will never return to spread ruin. Once the people get away from it, they will never allow the saloon to return.