The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-25

afford aid or comfort or DOGn, 10
whisky men," for no such articles
have ever appeared in this paper.
No newspaper in Utah has been the
warmer friend or more consistent
and conscientious advocate of the
temperance cause than the SALT
LAKE HERALD. If the Journal editor
is acquainted with this paper, as he
assumes to be, and is honest he will
acknowledge the truth of this as
sertion. From the first issue of the
HERALD it has stood by the tenn
perance cause, it has been owned
and conducted by temperance
people, and proposes to continue as
in the past, the enemy to intemper-
ance. 1t goes further, and is in
favor Of prohibition. 1t would hail
with joy the announcement that
no more whisky was to be
made or sold in Utah. at
the same time, 1t does not
believe in the prohibition that does
not prohibit. 1t does not believe in
the prohibition in Kansas which
permits tWenty-nine saloons in one
city to open wide their doors and
sell rum to all corners. 1t does not
believe in the prohibition in Maine
which causes more arrests for
drunkenness than could be made I'M
der the license law. it does not be-
lieVe in the prohibition of Iowa,
which charges a high license for
selling tea, coffee, lemonade and
soda-water, with the understanding
that intoxicants may also be dis
posed of. 1t does not believe in the
prohibition of Logan, where, not
long ago it was said there were
eleven places where whisky could
be bought, and drunken men
Keeling through the streets
was no uncommon sight.
Itdoes not believe in the prohibition
Of Salt Lake which closes all the
saloons, yet does rot lessen the sale
and consumption of whisky. To
sum up,it does not believe that in the
present depraved condition of So
ciety prohibition is possible in any I
American city or town of a few
thousand inhabitants. When Logan
was village, and every body knew
there was no liquor sell
ng or drinking mot so much because
here was a law against it, as that
iOciety was purer and frowned the
business down. Liquor could not
re sold, for there was no one to luy.
t was as much disgrace to drink
whisky as to sell it. The moral in
Iuence of society controlled and re-
trained the individual, as we'll
IS the community. After
While there began to gather at
logan people who could not be re-
strained by the moral influences of
ociety. They wanted whisky and
hey found it. The city has ever
lad prohibitOry law, and doubt
8ss its officers are all that could
e expected in the matters of faith c
illness and efficiency; but for t
Ong time it has been no difficult :
natter to buy liquor in the town,
ither by the bottle or drink. Now &:
he authorities find the whisky .
cling and drinking element so .
trOng as to be scandalous in the
ace Of prohibition, and they are
making vigorous efforts to not only
heck, but stamp out the evil. The (
HERALD wishes them God-speed,
nd Il they succeed it will point
With pride to the Circumstance that
mixed community Of four or five
honsand people can suppress
liquor selling and drunken
less. If they should fail
hey need not blame their law, nor
heir lack of intelligent, earnest eff
ort, but charge it against a condi-
ion Of things which must be
hanged outside of legislative halls.
The HERALD believes that if the
natter of prohibition were sub
nitted to a vote in this territory.
he majority against the liquor traf-
&c would be as ten to one. In the
ace Of that it also believes the one
you'd buy and sell WHISKY and get !
runk despite the efforts of the ten.
The HERALD's position is plainly
his-prohibit when and where it
an be done; that being out of the
uestion, put the business under as
lose surveillance as possible, and I