Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-08-31

necessity be paraded before the people .
for number of years, and their good .
and bad points exhibited, before proper |
Judgment canbe formed and in thus parad- I
ing Prohibition, its followers have sealed /
its doom as a national issue, by the sorry !
figure il cuts as an aid to temperance
wherever it has been given trial
In Maine where for over twenty years the
prohibitory law, in various degrees, has
been in force, il is well-known fact that
more liquor is used and more crime gem
Grated by its use, according to population,
than in any OF the States where it is sold
without other drag than license. All
the energy and watchiulness Of Neal
Dow and his great army OF friends has
failed to check the evil, on the contrary
it has grown-and that, too, under a con-
tnuous Republican rue-until the State
has become byword for drunkenness
and Il reproach to the Prohibition party,
who so long have had their desired laws
passed there. The same may he said OF
ollltI NlitIt tiit law oDttiiiS, 40
witness the following from the Burlington
HuWkeye:
"Our brewers are selling considerably less
| liquor to Saloons" said business man,
"but they are just about making ii up
among private consumers. man who
makes the rounds of the city frequently in
an official capacity stated to me yesterday
that he had been offered beer ut ten or
eleven houses on the route that morning,
most of them places at which beer was not
kept few months ago. l have seen fire.
quently excursions to the country this sum-
mer, load of men. sometimes hard women
with them, aud n keg or so of beer. They
go to some leafy dell and drink all day.
Furthermore. heard man ask one of our
brewers last Saturday to send a four-gallon
keg of beer to his house for Sunday. The
brewer said he couldn't do it, that he al
ready had orders for 24S such kegs, and
could hardly supply them. He could ac-
commodate the man with q six-gallcn keg
but not with II smaller one. think the
private consumption of liquor is largely in
creased since the saloons have been closed,
as they have been, but what the moral effect
of it will be don't know or pretend to say
l am waiting for further developments be-
fore making up my mind"
. And so it is and will be wherever the
onerous law is substituted for that of tn,
will OF the people. The Prohibitionists
have the grandest incentive to labor il
, their cause, ever held by man, and the,
/ have the good will OF a vast majority o
the people with them, while they confin,
: themselves to practical measures, but il
aiming to suppress the traffic in spiritu
g GUS liquors by national legislation, the.
: aim at the impossible, and sensible mel
9 leave them to swim in their own sea c
$ n bsurdity. All the arguments advance
n by Prohibitionists, touching the woe
t misery, suffering and final damnatio
: which follows the liquor traffic in thor
n sands OF cases, are conceded to be in
/. pregnable by the Nation at large, b'
n that these fearful consequences shonl
}, be removed by means which woul
create precedent 10 ruin the whole con
l. mercial structure OF the continent, is hel
It by vast majority of the people to i
d foolish. and is treated accordingly. 1t
W the Prohibitionists swell their number
If in every town, hamlet and communit
Is in the land, and devote then
g selves TO the labor Of leading I'll
Is weak and erring in the wall
i of abstinence, and thus thrott
1t the effect so heartrendingly complaine
ID OF, and they will be engaged in a wor
D. which will show good results every da.
a and encourage them to continue in it;
.e short, they should form themselves I'M
e. a great national temperance unio
h. having branches all over the land, III
i'd carefully eschewing the filthy pool
err politics with its deceits and snares, thu
rs could hope for regenerating influen
lie on those Of the people who, by reason
he weak mental or physical organism, a
st slaves to liquor. In such cause tin
e, would have the hearty cooperation
al every good man and woman in the Ian
ly foremost among whom would be MAJ
n who make and sell liquor.