Show G GIT GI T the intermountain inter mountain is kept bu busy y just now nov in this prohibition anon movement ement if it was as paid for its services in the brewery inte interests rIts it could not work birder some time since it had an editorial headed influencing the in which it warned the mormons cormons to keep their hands off as a church and not seek beck to use their church influence on the members ot the legislature in this matter of prohibition hibi tion we me no quarrel with the sentiment thus expressed except to ask the inter if the temperance question like all other questions of not one in which all churches aie vitally interested inter eted and have hane not the churches the right to demand of their members that they work nork for moral reforms whether hether in the legislature or out of it ita A prominent off officer I 1 of sel sevier ier county counts seemed to consider it part of his bis duta dut to ruih ruh into print about this matter ind and we have the following ef lusion from no less a personage than sheriff abbott under the caption Wi Wl solicitation or corn comment ment and in one of the neat boxes for which A hach the intermountain Woun tain became famous last summer sheriffs office beier county M A abbott sheriff 3 richfield Kich field utah feb 5 1909 editor republican I 1 haie just read the editorial in thursby is s paper untitled influent ing th legda tars and I 1 belice I 1 can truthfully avii s that I 1 cri endorse dorse aeri word cord of it I 1 hae hac watched the course of the republican and its of strict regulation gu lation the most I 1 rachil 11 one I 1 also think the gardner bill the ery best that has or can be of alerd at this time 11 hive ive ta written ritten senator sevy and rep c martin jensen asking aking them to support up port this bill no now mr editor my excuse for N writing this letter is to gle a word of encouragement to aou ou and any other true friend of utah at a time vihn I 1 think such a word can be helpful Sin sincerely cerel and truly bours ours al A ABBOTT ordinarily a man has the right to air his opinions on public matters but what about a letter like the above b a nian min who went nent before the people of this county asking for an office and on a platform which hib the following plank we endorse the prohibition league mal movement 1 ment that is on foot in the nation ind in the state of utah and inasmuch as savier counts count has been and still is an aggressive county arid and in the lead in reform we e take pleasure in ili announcing noun nou cing ning that the officers nominated this dt d iii vill mil use every endeavor to have havea a local option law parsed that will meet all the demands demand 3 for or local option that our legislature may mn see fit to pass and in be half of citizens of county we te demand that such a law be paired republican platform Plit form adopted at esi elsi ore sept 5 1908 that is the temperance plank upon which aich sheriff abbott made his can ass it was aas not a case of the office seeding eeling the man as sheriff abbott ozker hard for the nomination and had bad lie he written a letter to the voters vo like thit that which aich lie he wrote to the inter recently he would not now be occupying his present office sheriff abbott worked hard for the nomination before the convention and he worked hard during the campaign for his election he made be beneral teral talks to the voters in towns of thib county and not one word did he utter against prohibition or local option or temperance reform had he done so he would not now be using the sheriffs office stationery in his communications to the intermountain inter mountain in n which he shows i a tendency to say to the people what he would not have dared to say before lection election sevier county ind and its officers were pledged to prohibition and when Sli shariff abbott undertakes to write to sena tor sevy and representative jensen jeneen to try and influence them from their pledged duty he is false to his constituents who placed him lit in office |