| Show A VA the following is from the ogden state journal and shon shows the views of a min man mel versed in the baines bu ines s interests of utah hon david eans IN wis is one of og dens deits best known former citizens we all knew him to be a learned lawyer shrewd business busine s man honorable politician and a liberal and illen did citizen the only fluet we have hane to find with ith him is that he left ogden at the time he reined from the practice of his profession here his ogden friends grid enemies too for that matter for dali dai e chad had enemies like all other men who nho rot foi some thing will mill read with lively interest his I 1 levs ienn s on tile the question of the adoption ot of a prohibitory law am by the pies ent legisla legislature tute here them jhc thc are ahi ihli is not i demo batic lican or american parti part question said he in reference to prohibition it is i vital ital question which chich concerns ev cri bod I 1 see th it the deseret news s b the only paper in salt lake that hs hb h b the courage to come out and adoc ite prohibition and indi if fany any of mine can help the cause ethea they are arc cheerfully given usually I 1 am not given to rushing into print but I 1 feel that I 1 am justified on this occasion in jiing an inter interview on the subject never neer mind ahat a hat anyone says sacs about hurting the city or state for that is til buncombe I 1 have seen the advantages of prohibition in southern californian towns and cities and I 1 know knon I 1 whereof hereof I 1 peak where you abolish the drink evil you ha have e i i better community and a higher stand ard all along the line when charles sumner was discussing the slaver slavery question in the senate of the united states a pro slaNe slavery rj man arose and asked t the fie sen sell ate to i withhold its judgment until it could hear bear the other side of the question whereupon sumner replied ahtie is no other side to this question once said no ni in ili is so thoroughly thorough lN as to be entitled to say that others ire totally wrong rong it is well to affirm jobi joui own truth but it is nt not well niell to condemn thoe IN who ho think differently to the turning burning question of temperance roi agitating the minds of the people of utah I 1 stand with the expressions of sumner there is but one side to th question of prohibition N no to legal mate argument can or ever his been advanced against ag ennst it the only month ments worth morth of consideration are first that prohibition does not and that to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage I 1 ili if operate as a destruction or of tested rights fo my mind both of these arguments arlu ments are unbound A moral sentiment in favor faor of a prohibit prohibitory orN law will insure its strict enforcement the sceone argument in ili mi judge equally unsound since no min can acquire i A vested right as against the interests and of society any more than he can acquire a prescriptive right to vio violate latea 1 penal statute or to hold human beings in servitude A long experience in ill business ind and official life has londine ld cd me ine that the indiscriminate use of alcoholic drink has been a greater curse than human aller silvery that the saloon is an evil is universally admitted then why hy not abolish it let us have hane not only state wide mide but let us strive to make it states and lorld wide for this la Is suie to come in the march of events as ab we me view them today the hand writing is on the wall all u over er the country public sentiment is rapidly the prohibition movement is for the establishment ut of that which ls ib right and it must prevail no contracts between political leaders ind the liquor element clement can tl prevent it and will ill not much longer be tolerated if prohibition does docs not come now it will in the near future for it is universally recognized that the world will be far better when this work ork shall have been accomplished |
