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Show they will move on to fresh pasture in search of "easy" officials and now suckers. Itemperan CE j I DEPARTMENT I t . ' i $ CONDUCTED BY W. C. T. TJ. i j. I v 'i EDITORIAL .COMMITTEE . i MISS FRIEDA DRESSEL, MRS. U. WAY. X 4. V WHAT PROHIBITION MEANS. A little boy stood by a fence, One hot day In July. His little head was full of sense, His mouth was full of pie. I asked him where to get a drink. Said , he, "At mama's well, , This Is a prohibition town." "What"3 that?'" said I, "pray tell." 1 He looked at me In great surprise; Said he. "Why don't' you know? It's prohibition when we close Saloons where drunkards grow." 'Selected. j added: "Old John Barleycorn and I starved her to death. That's just a reminder." He went back to wiping glasses and the two young men moved away s'-lently. s'-lently. The Denver Post, MANHOOD MATHEMATICS. As might have been expected, the "almighty dollar" argument was tho one most in evidence in Mayor Rose's reply to Professor Dickie's plea for prohibition, during the debate held In Chicago April 20. That the licensing of the liquor traffic Is an indispensable source of revenue to the national and to the municipality was the mayor's TWO SWARMS OF B'S. I B stands for boy. ! It also stands for bar, beer, '"boot- ' legging," baseness, "bum." beggary. It also stands for Bible, beauty, boon, benevolence, blessedness. Whiej swarm of B's would vou have your boy to hive? Union Signal. HERE IS THE REMEDY. Chapter Eighty-eight of the session laws of Utah for the current year cou- ! tains the following: i It shall be unlawful for any person within the state of Utah: 1 To keep a house of ill-famo rcsort ed to for purposes of prostitution or lewdness; or to wilfully reside in such a house; or to resort thereto for lewd- i ness; or I To be the owner of any building or ' tenement, the whole or any part of which is used for any of the purposes mentioned in the firt subdivision of ! this section; j Or to have control of such build- I Ing or tenement as agent, guardian or lessee of such owner; after writ-, ten notice to such owner, agent, guar- ; dian or lessee that sucn building is : being used for the purposes mention- I ed; I To let any building or tenement 1 knowing that the lessee Intends using the same or any part thereof for any , text, from which he drew a lurid and hearti ending picture of the bankrupt condition of tbe federal and state government gov-ernment which might be anticlpaptcd In the event the prohibition is not checked. The fallacy of this statement state-ment has been proved so often, It Is needless to repeat it. Nevertheless, the average business man doubtless sat up and took notice when the mayor may-or said: , "Now I want to talk to you business men and present this great economic question to you as a business proposition." proposi-tion." which, being Interpreted, means, of course, a dollars and cents proposition, proposi-tion, it is Indeed a business proposition proposi-tion of overwhelming Importance, but when it has been demonstrated by cool-headed, impartial scientists of highest repute that "alcohol is leading civilized humanity on the path of degeneracy," de-generacy," Is it not time for sane men and women to view the question from other than a mercenary view point? Can we afford as a nation to have a "marked-down," depreciated grade of citizens? Such, tho scientists Insist, In-sist, is the moderate drinker. By moderate mod-erate drinking he has lost 10 per cent of his efficiency, muscular, nervous and mental, and Is therefore to be reckoned as but niuetenths of a man If this be so, truly it must be said of the confirmed Inebriate that he has wilfully reduced himself from ten-tenths ten-tenths of a man to no-tenths, indeed ; to less than a ctpher, to a minus quan-; quan-; tlty, forever subtracting from the revenue rev-enue and resources of the state rather rath-er than adding to them. Even more appalling ap-palling is the physical, mental and moral bankruptcy wc are forcing upon the children in Inherited appetites, 1 weakened wills and flagrant tempta-j tempta-j tlon In tho form of licensed saloons. A nation can exist with credit to It-j It-j self and service to the world with a 1 depleted treasury; It never was known to do it with a depreciated 1 grade of citizenship and manhood. Union Signal. NO APOLOGIES TO MAKE. Representative Scot of Kansas, in I a debate on the tariff bill while that measure was before the house, took exception to statements made by Representative Rep-resentative Mann of Illinois which were calculated to reflect upon tho consistency of the temperance sentiments senti-ments of the representatives from the Sun "lower state. The gentleman from Illinois charged that tho gentleman j from Kansas (Representative Miller) was seeking legislation which would I make It possible for Kansas to grow 1 more barley, which may be used to produce more beer. Representative Scott replied: ot the purposes mentioned in the first subdivision of this section; or to harbor har-bor or keep about his or her premises prem-ises any person known to be guilty of following a lewd course of life. Section two PENALTY. Any person per-son violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a term of Imprisonment In the county jail, which shall not be less than three month3 nor more than one year. Any corporation cor-poration violating any of the provisions provis-ions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine which shall not be less than one thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars. The above law was approved March 22, of the present year, and will bo in effect on Tuesday of next week May eleventh. In ter-Mountaln Republican. IN THE ARENA OF THE WORKSHOP. WORK-SHOP. Saloon Interests which tried to idace the Chicago Federation of Labor on record as opposed to prohibition and local option met with a stinging defeat at yesterday's session of the central labor 'body. Chicago Record- , Herald. Those of us who are so familiar with the process of threshing out this whole liquor question In the arena of the pulpit and platform bv cultured experts, may well note with Interest what the plain, blunt man of toil has to say, pro and contra. 0 At the meeting In question a bartender bar-tender remarked that it was "time something be done to stop the short-haired short-haired woman and long-haired men from legislating the bartenders and other workmen out of business." Equally unacquainted with the actual facts was the clgarmaker who asserted assert-ed that "these prohibition fanatics don't advocate temperance for themselves; them-selves; they want to make tho other fellow temperate." Speaking for the other side,' how must the following words, uttered by a printer, have sounded like a bugle blast in the ears of the assembly: "Of course the brewers and ells-tillers ells-tillers are friends of the laboring class. Why shouldn't they be? It Is the worklngmen that drink v their booze, the inore's tho pitv. If anv of you havo read ancient ' history 'vou know who raised the howl in Rome against Christianity. It was the idol-makers, idol-makers, who saw that the "new religion relig-ion would put thorn out of business, as the people would cease to worship idols. : "So we see the bartenders and the ' j My colleague from Kansas is absolute abso-lute consistent when he InsUts from a temperance standpoint that the ! men engaged in the manufacture of i beer shall be taxed at every turn In tho road where it is possible to tax 1 them; and we believe that one of the ! ways in which they may be properly taxed Is In enhancing the cost of tho material from which they manufacture manufac-ture their product, j I understand how common It Is to joke and jeer at Kansas because she has seen fit to write a prohibitory statute Into her laws. But I want to j say that out there on the wind-swept plains of that splendid state we aro bringing up a citizenship that every American, wherever he halls from, may well be proud to recognize as brothers. (Applause.) We are bringing bring-ing up a generation of men and women who do not know what a saloon looks like, and who never want to find out. Wo are bringing up a race of the clearest-headed, the keenest-wltted, the most God-fearing and most patriotic pa-triotic people on the face of the earth, ai : we aro not getting any help fr.un the men who are engaged in the brewery business. Kansas has no apologies to make for her attitude brewers here raising the same sort of cry against the attacks being made on the liquor curse. The Idol-makers were put out of business and Christianity Chris-tianity was ushered In aud world was the better for it. Tho working class will be better for it If the saloon and all that pertains to it is put out of business." And this, from a lather: "It Is an outrage to ask organized lnbor to go on record as opposed to local option. If I don't wanfa saloon in the neieh-boihood neieh-boihood where I Ilvo no one has" a right to try and force it on me. We believe in majority rule, and If. a majority ma-jority of tho people In a locality are opposed to saloons, the saloons should bo driven out of that locality. The more of them that aro driven out the better it will suit me and the better it will be for the men I represent " It Is a great day for a good cause when tho rank and file of the working people take it up Union Signal. JUST A REMINDER. j A bartender in a downtown saloon was wiping glasses Saturday night when two young men came in and ordered or-dered highballs. He served them and they made an effort to be sociable. "Take a little 'booze yourself," one said. "No. thanks!" replied the bartender. Don t you use it?" ho was asked, 1 cm , Ky more' 1 used to et outside out-side of barrels of it. but I never touch it now. tlonat broueht abo,lt tfle reforma- The man in the apron turned and pointed to the back bar. "See that'" 1 he said. ' l' The two young men saw a little cnina doll propped up among the glasses. "What do you keep that up there for?" asked one. I, "It belonged to a four-year-old girl j. once," said the bartender in a low 'i toue. He paused a moment. Then he on the liquor question, and as one of her representatives on this floor I do not intend to sit here and hear her maligned without protest. (Applause.) Union Signal. AFTERMATH OF THE RACES. 1 Resides a hold-up. a burglary and a fatal shooting all in one night during tbo races, besides a number or petty crimes, Ogden is experiencing such cases as tho following: 1 A young married man has just left tho city and his wife and babies because be-cause he is unable to faeo the almost certain disgrace that would overtake him because of his betting on tho races. This little family was prospering and the couple were paying for a little lit-tle home of their own. I Then came the races with Its train of "steercrs" First went the young man's wages, then all he could bor-jrow bor-jrow of friends In a frantic effort to I recover what should havo been paid to grocers, butchers and other creditors. cred-itors. Whllo he may have been weak, this young man was not criminally inclined. in-clined. He made a falal misstep and fell Into the trap which our mayor an I other officials allowed to he set for him and others like him for a "price. Whatever the city gets out of It financially fin-ancially is at the expense of the future fu-ture of Innocent women and children on whom it lays a fearful tax. And whatever the city gets o::t of it, the grocers and butchers and other legitimate tradespeople will have to make up from their jackets. And how much will the city have left anyhow when the murder trial and other expenses ex-penses are counted out? Electric alley, the gr. .hMn hou.ses and the saloons are the only people who profit, if you except the owners of the horses and their friendly "steercrs," "steer-crs," all of whom must have taken thousands of dollars out of Ogden, leaving us nothing but the dregs, while |