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Show PROHIBITION AND UTAH Utah, the state of high ideals and exceptional morals, it seems bids fair to be one of the late states to be wise enough to drop in line for prohibi-! tion. ; At the last session of the state legislature, leg-islature, which was a Republican legislature, leg-islature, the representatives of the people there assembled did their duty as best they could under existing conditions con-ditions and the exceptionally powerful power-ful influences which were brought to bear upon them. A bill was prepared giving th" people peo-ple of Utah prohibition and all it lacked to make it effective was the governor's signature. The governor juggled the affair and delaved hi-veto hi-veto until It was too late for the legislature to pass it over his head. The people were beaten out o:' it by the action of the governor, although the legislators did their utmost to see that prohibition was enacte I into law. It is now time for a house cleaning clean-ing in the Republican party. The rank and file of the Rcpublic-i voters vot-ers and the Republican workers in the state of Utah have been clamoring clam-oring for it ami now demand that those men who have stood ami now Hand in the way of prohibition, be relegated to the rear and make room for men who will do the will of the people. Prom one end of the state to the other, a clamor is being made for prohibition. The most conservative and fair minded people are working diligently for its enaction into law, but on the other haim men who are perhaps as equally sincere in opposing oppos-ing prohibition, are using their ut- most influence to defeat it in t lie j coming legislature, although they tried hard to pose two years ago as friends of prohibition if the right kind of prohibition law cBuld be enacted. The present governor of the state cf Utah is clamoring for a third term which is contrary to the best American Ameri-can principals, and if he succeeds in heading the Republican ticket in the state of Utah, we feel certain that the people would have no use for the Republican ticket this fall. Governor Spry did some good work as a governor and no doubt has made one of the best governors the state of Utah has ever produced, but there are other men in Utah and we have equally as good timber in the state now as w e had before we made governor gover-nor Spry. Governor Spry juggled the prohibition prohi-bition bill and beat the people out of the very thing they were determined .ipon obtaining in the last legislature, legisla-ture, has compelled the state of Utah to remain in the backward range of stales who are not strongly moral enough to banish the demon drink from their midst; and now comes back with an apparent assumption that he is the ideal and only appropriate appro-priate stick of Republican timber out of which a real governor can be made. Again w e reiterate, as a member of the rank and file of the Republican workers of the state, that a house cleaning is in order for the Republican Republi-can party and it is time several f the so-called leaders recognize the "hand w riting on the -wall." We w ill stand for prohibition, state vide, this fall and will use our ut-nost ut-nost influence In the Republican par-.y par-.y to see that the people are given itate wide prohibition. J. S. Harlow. Editor The American Kaglc, Murray. J tall. r r |