Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-30
One Whole County Maintains
Prohibition Within its BOr-
derS-That OF Kane.
THE MOVEMENT is SPREADING.
Claim is Made Tint One-Third of the
Population of the United States
Is Under Temperance Control.

Utah has made n small beginning to-
wards Joining the prohibition, accord
ing to tho Union Signal Temperance
publication OF Chicago which calls
attention to the fact that Kane coun-
~ is under prohibition, with Of course.
the Indian reservations. The Signal
claims there are 16 Utah cities and
towns averaging 1000 inhabitants
each, that are known to be without
saloons
Inquiry Mt the internal revenue Of
fee in this city, substautiates the
Kane county statement; also that &C.
dar City, Spriugville, Junction city,
Grsntsytlle and Parowan are under
temperance control and the local Off
cials estimate that perhaps one-thirti-
eth Of the state may be free from
the faint of the saloon. But II would
take long comparison OF every town
in the state with the records Of the Of
fee to determine how many munich
palitles are without saloons.
MOVEMENT SPREADING.
The Signal claims that over one-half
Of the area, and more than one-third
of the population of the United States
are under prohibitory law Three
states hundreds of counties, and
thousands Of townships towns and
cities have been added to the prohibl-
tion territory during the past year"
Charities and the Commons, n
eastern periodical devoted to social
forces publishes an editorial on the
saloon, In which 1t says:
Those who abstain from alcohol
,'''" h'ft7" 7'"~ 80 natural resources
than those who use it; they make rrt
AV 1 O.
they are able to get more from land.
TO command higher wages. to save
more and to make better use of their
savings. They last longer, they earn
more thev have higher standards of
wing. Therefore, as surely as free
labor survives in the competition with
slave labor, as surely as peaceful CO.
operation IN industry survives i'm COM
petition with an Industrial organiza-
lion based on continual class conflict,
so surely win the economic advantages
lie on the side Of those who abstain
IRON intoxicating beverages and live
sober, temperate lives"
Again, The saloon and the special
interests behind It, distlllers, brewers
ma others, have been convicted before
the bar of the public conscience Of
law breaking. law-defying. and trea-
Sonable spirit. Reasonable reeula-
lions concerning Sunday closing con-
rerning sale to minors and habituaI
drunkards, adulteration of liquors. and
many other such matters. have been
SO constantly and so nagrantly dis
regarded, the association of the liouor
business with other forms of immoral
lty Is so intimate, the cost of maxi
ing and enforcing even such excise laws
and regulations as viii make life only
tolerable for decent citizens is so hui.-
densome. the direct consequences in
crime and misery of the sale and con-
sumption of alcohol are so obvious
that fihally society turns in exaspera-
ton upon the one tangible. concrete
ness. NuS'-
Whatever good physiological and
sociological results may be nut down
to its credit, and there are some who
oeneVe that these are considerable, are
vastly outweighed by its obvious and
unavoidable bad results under present
conditions 1t is an abnormal. waste
1ui and destructive habit and society
viii gain when either by persuasion
or compulsion it has disappeared