Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-28
Prohibition Arguments Pro and Con
FOR
Some reasons Dhy the sale and manufacture of liquor
should be suppressed BIZ Ldw.

many families iu destitute circum-
stances as "a result of gambling and
untold misery exists in scores %. little
cabins where happiness might ho found
but for the damuahlc and ever ncrcas-
ing traffic in liquor Scores of hard
working fellows are almost helpless
victims of drink. they spend their enc
tire check for which they have shaved
whole month in one or two nights of
drunken revelry and often boat their
board bills in order Go have moro money
Tor drink.
have seen fathers OF families with
dowucast ewes and their very souls
burning with shame and regret beg
eing merchants TO advance them -ui-
nciont food for "a month after spending
huudred-dullar check m one night
while drunk I have heard those Same
poor men curse iqour and ali connected
with IT, and take a solemn oath never
20 enter another saloon. only 10 sue
cumb 20 the same Irresistible spree tho
next pay day No one who does not
live here can estimate the misery and
wrong. the poverty and discomfort. the
broken homes and neglected children
and hearthrOllen mothers who are ekIug
out an existence here As Tor crime,
nearly every deed OF violence commit
ted in camp can be attributed 20 drink.
more laWles8 foreigners would not ter
inmate into carnivals of murder but for
the firewater they consume. IL is not "a
feud between Roman and Greek CathO-
lies (neither side Is worthy of the name
Catholic. those evcr-incrcasing muir
ders amongst the ignorant and Hitter
ate are a direct result OF demented con-
ditions caused by excessive use or beer
| and whisky.
j
we are sorely an need of a law that
| win DO away with the stuff which de-
vast3tes the home mentally and phys
| iCally. wrecks the father duls an hope
and ambition In the mother and fastens
upon the children a craving which
viii eventually drag them into pauper-
| ism.
There Is mo- class OF men who are
| more courageous. kind hearted nor self
sacrificing than the miners. They will
/ face certain death TO help a comrade
/ out Of danger. They win divide their
/ last morsel OF food with a hungry
| stranger and no one Will respond 20 "a
/ call for help for those iu distress with
! a. frecr heart than the man who delves
/ in the earth. Yet some OF those very
men who would sacrifice their an for
| others while sober and rational viii lose
I q good Job for a spree, cheat their best
| friends and neglect and abuse with
/ hendish cruelty their wife and children
/ while dementcd with drink.
| In passing "a petition for prohibition J
| met with cases which were really pa
| thetic, Men who were habitual drink
/ ers seemed the most anxious 90 sign the
! death knoll OF the saloon, realizing their
/ own weakness and inability 10 keep
away from the cNer-tompting and al-
ways open booze dive They seize the OPP
! portupity 10 close 10 with "a feryor
| which left n0 doubt Gag 90 their inner
! most feelings. III those iu whose power
| 10 lies 10 destroy the liquor traffic could
/ hut see the results of drink within the
! novels and shacF- 90 Bingham Canyon
! 7 am sure no argument for the saloon.
| however couyinoing could pcvent Thorn
1 from doing their duty.
a CITIZEN
! Bingham Canyon. Utah Jan 90