Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-02-03

movement before the country. Churches
expressed themselves n favor of the
dry side OF this question, so have mcr-
chants. though the latter nc first feared
tne move would lnjurc business but
lhey ave friendly now because they
md there is money M g. The women
stand for prohibition almost without
exception One brewers wife refused
io circulate lu anu-prohibition petition
the other day although she knew her
husbands business was u danger. The
children ana druukards too are FOR
the temperance cause Intelligence has
been engaged ln pushing the movement
forward, and even saloonkeepers them
selves have been enlisted iu lighting for
prohibition
BOASTS OF LIQUOR MEN.
The speaker made reference 10 the
boast Of local liquor men. who declared
they could control tho opposition TO
them as Illustrative of their audacity.
oh state street are saloons that are a
disgrace TO amy community one saloon
man here offered certain contractor
go much week and furnished desk
facilities, it he would pay his men Off
ln the salooumans resort Mr. Morris
related an instance where drinking
man refused 20 90 homo until his anx-
ious wife and child came in 10 take a
drink with him. A girl was seen coming
out OF a First South street saloon one
morning recently in a most uukempt
and deplorable condition she said
am acquaintance had induced her 10
20 into the family entrance" of the
saloon With her the night before She
said she was there an night drinking.
and now here she was hardly knowing
what had happened 20 her. The eirl
then started for home. when o wolf IN
human FORM rushed out from the same
saloon 10 pull her IN there again.
THE OLD FIvE-MILE LAW.
This prohibition agitation began IN
the 'hve-mile law OF colonial times.
prohibiting saloons within that distance
Of churches and schools This worked
so Wei that il became the germ Of 10
cal option, combining the voting in SELL
ing OF liquor % certain districts. and
this grew 20 prohibition, which means
closing up saloons All over the state
Local option is best where prohibition
cannot obtain. declared the speaker;
but whore YOU have prohibition you
have also local option.
ARGUMENT PUNCTURED.
Mr. Morris referred 10 the blind tiger
dodge of the saloon men in local option
districts, which is being used as an
argument against temperance legisla-
ton. as really showing why il should
De- prohibition and statewide az that,
instead OF local option. lie said that
II Davis county went dry On local
option election, and Salt Lake wet.
there would Dee a row OF saloons I'm
short order Immediately south OF the
Davis county line thus multiplying the
action OF the Davis county people IL
is not case OF prohibition does not
prohibit bat of nOu-prohibitiun states
being allowed 20 ship by express liquor
into dry states. Men have been slow
90 adopt prohibhory measures but
they are adopting what has been term
cd am abstract theory 90 meet
concrete fact Quarantine meas
ures are not represslyc. they are not
extremes. smallpox iu certain Euro
pcau countries is not known because of
rigid vaccination. So tho repression of
the liquor traffic here may Doe carried
ont ln "a similar way. There ought Co
Doc law prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoXlcants am over the
country
The speaker referred 20 tho ANTE
Japanese legislation Boo California.
bringing OUT by comparison the fact
that action by state should not boz
allowed TO interfere with international
treaties, and one state should not De- Bl-
lowed t0 interfere with the rights of
another
The Cannon BIN is the best OF amy bills
ever introduced in "a Utah legislature.
ana shuold Doe supported DE- declared.
THIS ls NOT "a question of money The
moral domestic phase of The question
outhcisns the mere matter of money.
Tho brewers do not deserve ans sym-
naiheA for they can alI retire wealthy
The government has right 10 destroy
property where 10 has boon found uec-
essay for the benefit of ihe stqtc OBJ
where H. stands IA che way of public
morals
Mr Morris regretted his time had ca
pired when De had just g0t warmed up
DO the subject Tho schubert quartet
followed Wth "a finely rendered selr.-
CON- which WAS su WoIl received that
they gave "a second number. "rhc Night
Has "a Thousand Eyes"
HAVE YOU A BOY no SPARE?
Mrs Ruth Fox spoke from the quos-
tlou Have You "a Boy to spare She
quoted from Proverbs. "Woe to them
that are mighty Co drink Wine,' etc.
ahu said women can't weigh up money
as against the immortal eoul-a home
cannot 0o "a home without "a woman iu
10. and mo- drunkard can enter the king
dom . heaven. Women cannot com-
promise with responsibility iu temper
unce. BE- must bc total abstinence f1r
the Individual. and prohibition for the
state "a man may choose 90 hams
himself bat that is not amy reason why
should pun lhe rope % u right o