Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14

OIL from their homes. <53
It is worse than nonsense to say
that our boys will have liquor, law or
no law, The confirmed drunkards
may wade through fire to get 1t,
and let thess burn themselves If they
must, but If 1t is out of sight, those
who have had no appetite awakened
for it will desire 1t no more thSn tho
will crave for morphine.
VALUE OF PROHIBITION.
The value OF prohibition laws. as an
aid to the Improvement of morals Is
shown best by comparison. Here are
some examples: Boston is wet and
Portland, Maine. is dry,
For every 1O.00oo of the POPULATION,
Boston has 426 arrests for drunken
ness, and Portland has 81.
Comparing prohibition Maine with
licensed Massachusetts, for every TO-
900 population Massachusetts has 3S
criminals in the pententiary and
Maine has 13.
Mayor johnson, speaking of Fargo.
N. u, says: I'VE have comparatively
no crime in Fargo. During my incum-
bency OF the mayors office between 1926
and l9O2--was out of Office four years.
there was not Il hold-up, stahbinE,
shooting. assault of women, in fact
there was practically no felonies com-
mitted during that time"
This Is the showing Of Brockton.
Mass. which tried prohibition and then
tried license. and then went hack to
prohibition:
Under no license, 1sa7-s--Arrests for
drunkenness Observation-Disclosures, 45S
Under license, 1s9S-9-Arrests for
@ drunkenness $500. .s.... ,,.,l ,62l
Under no license, 1891 00o-Arrests
for drunkenness ..,.......,.. 100
Our neighboring county has been en-
joylng "dry# spell for a. few months,
and leading men in some OF the dis
tricts report that conditions are very
much improved This is shown in the
decrease of hoodlumism. and the im-
proVement In the characters of the
young men, and although liquor inter-
ests are exerting themselves in every
way possible, to keep alive the taste for
their goods, the good results of prohibi-
ton are already noted.
SALOON MEN DEFIANT Law
BREAKERS.
While it has been shown that crime as
the result of the personal use of liquor
greatly increases the tendency of the
liquor traffic toward open and defiant
lawlessneSs 1t is best seen In the lives
and policy of the saloon men them
selves. They have a great organizat ton
and spend immense sums of money to
defeat the operation of the laws that
i the people have made. This. under any
other head would be called anarchy or
nihilism. Where there is a dry town
they will give whisky away, rather than
see it's use abatel, and their whole
study Is to evade every law that is
made to control them, whether a Sun
day law. or the Law relative to the
selling or ewing of liquor to minors, or
the prohibition of the sale of liquor al
together Let prohibition be assured.
and then let the law take its course.
The defiant talk you now hear so much,
may then he modified The aspect of
this question will change very mate
rally, when one comes to look at it
through the bars OF Jail
SALOONS MENACE TO NATION.
But there is perhaps a weightier mat
ter than any have been considering,
mt least when viewed from the stand
point of the patriotic lover of our eoun-
try. quote the words of Samuel
Smiles.
! '.isSperience serves to prove that the
worth and strength of a state depends
far less the form of It's institutions
than upon the character of its men,
for the nation is only the aggregate
of individual conditions and Feiyiiiza-
stion itself is but II question of personal
Improvements
g IL that be true, and it most certainly
is-what hope is there for the future