The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-08
THE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. WEDNESDAY SEPT 1909

QlsOrderly conduct OF one for every
thirteen. Savannah has $4,000 people
and last year 4,305 arrests for these Of
lenses, OF one for every eighteen. VIII
mington has $4,000 population, and had
l,062 arrests, one drunkard in every
thirty-three
Prohibition suIwark.
And now let us come to Maine, this
bulWark Of prohibition. Lewiston has a
population of 500 Last year II had
LIB arrests for drunkenness and disOT-
DERBY conduct, one for every 70. Portland
has a population of 63G00, ard 3G45 ar
rests. one for every 20. Bangor has a pop
ulation Of $500 and last year there were
1913 arrests, one for every 13
Mayor JOyner Of Atlanta, last October
at the convention of the American League
Of municipalities. at which President A.
j. Davis represented salt Lake, submitted
a paper which should be Of intense inter-
est TO you fathers and mothers. He said
that since prohibition had been adopted
IL Georgia there were LOCO dwelling houses
and business blocks vacant in the city of
Atlanta. There y as 100000 annually sent
out of the state to purchase liquor to Ue
dispensed in Atlanta in direct violation
of the law Drunkenness increased rapid
~. especially among the young men, from
the moment that prohibition was adopted.
And, my friends. Mayor JOyner has
never tasted Intoxicating liquor In his life.
More over, he voted for prohibition. he
says now that if he had 10000 votes ne
would gladly throw them all against pro
hibition TO atone in a measure for the
vote he cast IN favor Of it.
In Tennessee they have recently adopt
ed prohibition over the veto Of Governor
Patterson, and In direct violation of the
expressed viii of the people How many
OF you read that manly veto message OF
Governor Patterson? There is one man
in Utah who stands side by side with
Governor Patterson man who is model
OF Stalwart American patriotism, a man
VINO had the courage or his convictions.
who resolved to do right for his state, no
matter what the cOnscq uences. j refer
to the man who vetoed your prohibition
bill and who saved your state the dis
tressing experience of prohibition. / re-
fer TO your most excellent, your most
admirable governor.
"And what is the first gun from Ten
nessee2 ] quote an Associated Press dis
patch from Memphis:
For three weeks the police have been
puzzled with the "OdOTless drunk" In
each case there is no OdOr of intOXicantS
on the drunkards breath though ne was
plainly intoxicated. When asked what
he had been drinking the prisoner in each
instance replied 'beerette,' There were
forty-One DRINKS in police court this fore
noon
"Prohibitonists you have prevented the
regulation Of liquor laws. In each in
stance YOU have shouted, Prohibition or
nothing. And I'm each case where you
have. secured prohibition you have goI
nothing
You have calmly, almost wantoniy de
ztrOycd industries and businesses years in
the building and you have been assisted III
some instances by the minister Of the
gospel, who has come from his cOuse-
Grated station down to the level Of a ward
heller to work for prohibition that viii
confisCate vested interests. And while
Rome burns the probibitiOnist shouts with
glee and some of those 'hoHer than thou
clergymeu have even TUnE the bells from
the church towers because, forsOOeh, they
have ruined someone"