Show p PROVO PROHIBITION I tNol tin Kind Hint Dont 1rolillilt I V Itcnmrknhlc Shotting Ior So Small n Town I acts iniil Inures 1 In llclntlon to Iro lilliltetl Importer to the Iniilcn City iomeUooil Itintllng for Apostle Irunt anil Other Illlnd Mouldlie Ilohlhitors flit little town of Provo is just now in a gait stir over tin gritit liquid titles Ion liTo prohibit or not to prohibit anti arc oiuill troubled to got a satisfactory factory answer to that other tll knonn interrogator Docs prohibition pro iibit Tile readers of the UMIOUIAT will remember re-member that 1 i Hhort time ago the Provo City Council decided to repeal tho Iro libitum ordinance and has since been engaged In framing a high llconso ordln nnco Tills atop TI is taken in response to a petition from about forty oititna who bcHoNtd that it was better to liceiiBo liquor selling and thus get a revenue from it than to have so heiv II trafllc carried on secretly As soon however as ITIIF isiTivmr WAS rvKbX By tho Council tho local authorities of ho Moinion Church got up a counter petition which received altogether about 250 lines The elders Immediately be gan pioiclung prohibition sermons and the supporters of the new movo were de nouncecl from tlM iiili > lt I At tile quarterly conference hud in the Garden City a short time ago tho subject sub-ject was handled without gloves Apostlo Grant declared tint liquor must not bo licensed and so far as he was concerned lie was in favor of WITIIIJR WINO Tilt blAND OP FULOHHIIIH Irom any one who signed tho petition for the repeal of the prohibition ordinance In MOW of the great hurrah that is bo ing raised bv tho moe the following I figures prepared espuiall for the I UrvouiAT cease to bo pros and become a tuneful Bacchanalian Bong During the past year tho shipments of liquor to 1rovo by freight have amountei to sfG000 while the city has a population popula-tion of only 5000 Now estimating that there are 1000 adult male inhabitants in the city this would allow 30 per capita a year for the luxury of spirituous I liquor lsolli l But it is not likely that more than 250 of f tho inhabitants are frte Imbibers so that if the f30000 worth of intoxicants were were divided among these the figures an seer thc question Does prohibition prohibit pro-hibit with a great big No lioinem bering tint tho estimate is made onl I from the amount shipped in a more or less public manner with no means of finding out the amount earned by express or in wagons the figures would reach an annual import of at least 60 000 worth of liquor ever year with not more thai tluee hundred people as consumers The subject is one for study and vouU furnish ample material for redaction for all who preach for or against the mill Prohibition move |