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Show STATE-WIDE PROIilBITION Ni-ilii Capel- lievlevvs lll-loiv of Sllimgle lo Mal.e I I. ill ii lr Slulr, Says Local Option is only H ",lol,ol-." ( laliiis Mnjoilly of t tali People Wlitil Mai. i-Wide Probibi-lion, Probibi-lion, and snvs "Let (be I'iMiple Rule." I Nepbl Cit y New s I Sevcial yens ago a reform wave passi d over ibe Slate of l'l. ill. The mam object mhi;:Ii( was Hie elimliial ing nnd abollihnig of ihe i.Uor traf lie Irom our midst. After much tribulation. trib-ulation. In which long pensions of the Legislature were consumed, the present pres-ent local option law was the result. I'nder this law the people of the cities and the unaller places in the counties wire made Into voting units. and evinecsed their will through the ballot box. whether these units in which they resided should be dry or wet. Now this seemed a fair proposition proposi-tion at the time, as every city thai voted for dry conditions assumed that It would be Impossible to ship any of ihe wet goods Into their m!d"t. a emu Ins ion which they had every right to a'snme. Rut richt beie tbev weir due for an nwakeuiiiL.-. for they found to their sorrow that it was j"ust as easv to get booze In ,'iK If v. as under the saloon sa-loon system, and a great deal cheap t x . and w here it hid hrn purchased by the bottle, it was now being bonclo bv the barrel. Strenuous ef. forts were made by the loeal officers to put down this shipping of the amber fuld Into our dry cities, but Ihe powers I hat be ruled that under certain restrictions that were easily complied with. It ccibl be shipped here, limited only by the s're of the shipper's purse. Well, theie was only one thing to do wait (ill the Legislature met acaiu and have this matter flved. Well, the people waited, and the Leg. islatiire finally got into session and the Cannon bill was passed bv the i low er house, w h h h called for a state-wide state-wide law. i Rut right here somebody must have got scared that I'tah was really going to have proh ihit ion. for the Senate, after nights of wrangling, finally turned the measure down, for no other reason so far as the people of this state could see. than that the law was really going to prohibit. Now two more years of waiting, and the powers that be. met again to shape the destinies of a free people, and after due consideration it was thought advisable not to reopen the lbiuor 'iiiestion again as it caused too much agitation. What do vou know about that? The people of I'tah are long suffering. suf-fering. They waited, public sentiment senti-ment became somewhat stronger and men were elected to the last session that really knew what they wanted, and a statewide law by both houses was enacted and every citizen thought that at last Ihe liquor question ques-tion was going to be settled for all time: but Ihe love of Xfoses! they failed fail-ed lo consider that their action, although al-though they were Ihe representatives of the citizens of a great state must meet the approval of a Governor, which as we all know it failed to get. and once more the people were buncoed. Rut some little relief was given in order to throw out a little sop: the Funk bill was approved: il was a law passed with Ihe best of intentions, but as far as providing a remedy for which the people in dry cilios craved. crav-ed. It, was as barren of results as it is possible for a law (o be. and Ihe poor dear people" were faked once more. I'nder this law It could not In shipped within the state, but owing lo the fact, that Utah was only partly dry, inter-state shipments could not be prevented providing the wet go-vils were for personal use. ( A joker.) Rut. it is unnecessary to ship II from out of the stale. Willi the facilities facil-ities that, the ii'iilomobile give for traveling from place lo place, anil with wet towns dolled all over the country, It Is merely a pleasure trip lo obtain a supply of Ibe liquid, of course the court rulings are thai il must he for personal use. (another (Continued on laid page.) STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION (Continued from first page.) joker). This paper is for state-wide pro hibition, but opposed to local option in any manner or form, a state law that puts one town at the mercy of another, without any specific clause that will properly and adequately pio. tect a dry community is wrong, and should be repealed at the first opportunity. oppor-tunity. This is just what local option does, and because the people voted for this condition and it has proved a failure, is not any reason why it should be saddled on them for ever, not by any means: for it. has turned out to be the biggest farce that was ever put upon the statute books, as far as giving giv-ing the relief it was supposed to give. It is time for the people who want state-wide rohition, minus any political po-litical deals, clauses, jokers, star-chamber star-chamber sessions, midnight interviews inter-views or any Governor's opinion, to get in line. Don't imagine that this reform will come by merely expressing a wish that we ought to have it, it will take work of the hardest kind, for the liquor interests are not asleep. If the people of this state, who claim that they are in the largest majority, are sincere in their fight for prohibition, prohibi-tion, they will flock to the primaries of all political parties, and see to it that none but friends of state-wide prohibition are elected delegates to the state conventions where the real work of platform making, and ticket naming is done. The majority of the people of Utah want state-wide prohibition, or at least a chance to vote on the question, ques-tion, but they don't want any affair in which their expressed wish will be defeated by legal clauses that makes the law inoperative as far as accomplishing accom-plishing the results that are desired. Let the people rule. |
