The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-31

to come up as an issue two years hence
VITA each national party. seeking to Guido
the otner, IN vehement planks favoring
prohibition In the meantime no man OPP
posed to prohibition will invest dollar
tbat ne would not invest were prohibition
now established, and those who have mon
ey 70 invest and favor prohibition will wait
also That we need not fear the effect OF
prohibition on Utah and its chief city is
supported by dispassionate statement OF
one OF Americas foremost statesmen. the
Hon James G. Blaine. who concerning
Its ERECT on the state he so long and so
ably represented in the senate of the
United States said:
Maine for the last thirty-seven years
has been under a prohibitory law think
the state has derived great advantage
from it. ] think the state Is far richer
and better because of the Law than II
would have been without It.
But the minority of your committee pre-
sents this report and hopes u will be
adopted by the majority of your associa-
ton for other reasons. Reasons quite
apart from and above any question of eX-
Dediency OF Of monetary advantage
city can only become great by having ui-
butary to it. territory filled with the re-
sources that support man and make nun
happy The future of Salt Lake City Is
bound to be great because the location.
the natural resources surrounding US ana
the energy. ability and noble qualities OF
most of our citizens are such as to ensure
greatness. But the best resource of the
community. a resource more precious than
any product of field or farm OF than the
gold and silver for which the miner en-
dures-the privations and hardShiDS OF the
prospectOr. or the dangers of underground
mines. Is the youth of the community As
the boys and girls and young men an9
young women grow UP in honor anu
strength so shall the community be strong
and great. Around those boys and girls
and those young men and women IL Is our
duty and we hope ii VIII be our pleasure
10 throw every safeguard that shall make
them what they ought 20 be. We affirm
that no man was ever made better by the
associations and the allurements OF the
saloon. That on the contrary thorsands
of men and women have been led TO De
struction and death by its influence That
while some men suffer more than others
from it's blightiug effects, that there is
not a man on this committee or in TINS as
ISOLATION but has at some time in his eX-
perience had a dearly beloved TREND OF
peTchsnce nearer and deareT than friend
ensnared in the meshes of its outspread
net
The present condition of the liquor traf-
fic in Salt Lake City cannot be defended
by any man who cares at all for the wei
fare of the community The more its et-
feet. particularly upon the young. IS IN
vestigated, the more will it be condemned.
And the demand for laws that viii at least
to great extent wipe out existing eVlis
will continue until an adequate remedy IS
found.
No Denial Can Go.
To deny the right TO prohibit the manu-
facture and sale Of intoxicantS is to deny
the legality of the decisions of the best
and highest courts in our land. The claim
that man to exercise personal freedom
r1ust have the right to eat and drink any
thing he may choose irrespective of the
effect of such articles of food or drink
upon himself. his family. and the general
| public. is a claim not founded in reason
and utterly at variance with the most ad-
vanced thought and action in the Ameri-
can nation The laws of practically every
| civilized land prohibit the use. except as
medicine. of such articles as opium, NOR
pbine, absnthe and like injurious sub
stances; and year by year the number OF
towns, cities. counties and states that
| strictly prohibit the sale of liquor becomes
/ larger and larger.
With malice toward none; with charity
| for all: with firmness in the right as Goo
gives US to see the right, we favor not
! alone our personal financial interests. but
I the greatest good to the greatest number
/ of the people of our state and natior
/ through statewide prohibition in the
state of Utah.
GEORGE NJ. CANNON.