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

whisky men,, Tor no sucn aItleles
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 al corners. 1t does not
believe in the prohibition in Maine
which causes more arrests for
drunkenness than could be made un-
der the license law. it does not be-
lieye 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.
1t does 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 deprayed condition of So
ciety prohibition is possible in any
American city or town of few
thousand inhabitants. When Logan
was village, and everybody knew
everybody, there was no liquor sell
ing or drinking mot so much because
there was law against it, as that
society was purer and frowned the
business down. Liquor could not
be sold, for there was no one to luy.
It was as much disgrace to drink
whisky as to sell it. The moral in
fluence of society controlled and re-
strained the individual, as well |
as the community. After a
while there began to gather at |
Logan people who could not be re-
strained by the moral influences of |
society. They wanted whisky and |
they found it. The city has ever
had a prohibitory law, and doubt
less its officers are all that could |
be expected in the matters of faith
fulness and efficiency; but for a
long time it has been no difficult
matter to buy liquor in the town,
either by the bottle or drink. Now
the authorities find the whisky
selling and drinking element so |
strong as to be scandalous in the
face Of prohibition, and they are
making vigorous efforts to not only
check, but stamp out the evil. The
HERALD wishes them God-speed,
and II they succeed it will point
with pride to the circumstante that
a mixed community of four or five
thousand people can suppress
liquor selling and drunken
ness. If they should fail
they need not blame their law, nor
their lack of intelligent, earnest eff
fort, bat charge it against a condi-
ton Of things which must be
changed outside of legislative halls.
The HERALD believes that if the
matter of prohibition were sub
mitted to a vote in this territory.
the majority against the liquor traf-
fic would be as ten to one. In the
face OF that it also believes the one
would buy and sell WHISKY and get
drunk despite the efforts of the ten.
The HERALD's position is plainly
this-prohibit when and where it
can be done; that being out of the
question, put the business under as
close surveillance as possible, and
make it pay as heavy a tax as it
win stand. AS rum is the direct
cause Of much crime, and its con-
troll among the chief items of COM
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