Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-31
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PR0H|B|TION|ST
ludge'! Dan R. s'hean Of Peoria.
III, the Guest Of Or.
Stiehl.
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FOUGHT |;.')j CHI LIQUOR u: 3, 50 YEARS.
FOUGHT I:|I LIQUOR SO YEARS.
Declares Amendment of Constitution
Necessary Before Traffic Can
BE Stopped.

Judgs Dan r. Shean of Peoria. Ill.
me OF the most noted prohibitionists In
x me United States. is a visitor IN this
4 sity a guest of DR.. and Mrs, F.
Stiehl, at the Bransofrd apartments
Since 1876 Judge shean has been al,
Il vowed prohibitionist and has fought
The evil but not by unreasonable Or
radical measures. He does not be-
aeve In the torch or drastic legislation
10 accomplish the desired result, but
sather5in the purchase Of the liquor in
4lerests.
Judge Shean was elected to the I1l;-
nois legislature in 1904 on the prohibi-
don ticket from Peoria county. Last
rear ear he ran for governor on the same
ticket.
The fight for prohibition will never
n ind iii there is an amendment to the
constitution of the United States pro-
Il aibiting the manufacture Of alcoholic
dquors, the same as we prohibit slave
", said Judge shean. "of course,
s Aconol and It's mixtures, considered as
Il B drug, is all right bit 1t must DO
faacedS on the same plane as morphine,
II HOrs Stance.
Beer and wine are not drugs and
hence should be utterly forbidden.
Brandy for Instance, is necessary as
6irug, but should be MS rightly con-
trolled as is opium and its products
We have learned that 1t is useless
4 lofffght the saloon and let the distillery
/ Ind brewery 90 on turning out the
y poison, Stop the source and the saloon
Viii die a natural death. But we begun
IN the saloon as the first thing within
Sur reach. In a number OF states we
have closed the saloon and the brew
.ries and distilleries. The next step is
4 through the federal control OF inter-
tate commerce. We want national
Is hws. forbiddlng the transportation Of
liquor from one state into any state
4 hat objects to liquor. This will center
.hesfight on those states that remain
ipen. Close a two-thirds majority of
he states to- liquor and then 1t will be
possible to get this constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufac-
lure, Importation or use OF alcoholic
liquors as a beverage.
TIME CHANGES CONDITIONS.
I'VE hold that as civilization ad-
Snnces, one thing after another that
nay be useful and necessary at one
/, ltage Of development becomes harmful.
Slavery. for instance, under certain
conditions, is perhaps necessary. One
tribesconquers another and must either
murder its captives or keep them as
ilases. But as things go on this be-
.onles unnecessary and harmful till 3at
i asst slavery has no reason for being.
Ind We throw it aside Gambling is
mother case. III fty2y years ago gambling
was legal practically everywhere; to-
& lay 1t Is prohibited everywhere in the
s United States. Even the mails are,
.losed against it. Close the railroads
flr,glf ty,rt
I Mill be where gambling is today We
intend to treat the big breweries just
+ Is We did the big lotteries.
Some radicals are In favor Of sim
) ply closing up the saloons and brew
cries and distilleries and letting the
consequences be what they may This
Il S hArdlS right. either. Man! men,
With our eyes. We think it wrong;
hey think 1t right. and hence have in
Vested many millions in the business
q 1nder the protection OF the law What
The, law allows must DO treated as not
\ ,nly legal, but entitled TO all legal pro-
lection. Hence we are In flvor OF
buying the liquor interests But and
lone in regard to the slaves thaee might
Z apt have been a terrible Civil war.
WOULD PAY THE NATION
g AS a business proposition this finan-
sial move would pay the natbn we'll
! The liquor manufacturing interests earn
!. lbout s1,250.0n0.oGo a year. ii round
1 igures s30O,OOO.OC0 of this goes to vari-
,us city, state and the national gov
.rnment in taxes, Sixty three million
i soes in labor and $780, 100000 gnes to
4 he, farmers for grain and fruits. The
difference between s700. 100000 and
100000, 900 goes in profits to the liquor
Dealers. The labor Of all these men is
Is loss to the nation. All businesses pay
m equal profit in the long run, ald the
york of these men and the capital In
vested would. If used in other lines, say
ron, railroading and other Ines of
manufacturing, of course yiek the
h,250, 900 in wealth that would be
Of benefit to the nation instead of in
bottles and kegs which today costs the
hation fully another S1,250, 100000 IN
police measures hospitals, prison; and
I'll kinds of crimes and destituti,n due
ID liquor. Hence we figure that 70 buy
4 iut the liquor interests and close them
up would yield a yearly prof1tEof at
least 81, 900, 600: that is, two ,illion.