The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-11


began to vote on the question of sa-
loon or no saloon and thus the work
went on State movements then oc-
Cured. We have today dozen states
who have declared out and out In fa-
1or OF prohibition. In addition TO
these nine or ten states there are
scores of states that have adopted by
counties the local option law prohibit
ing absolutely the sale Of liquor in
tlreir counties. Local option is limited.
The important phase of local option
is that one county may declare in IA
yor OF local option and prohibit the
sale OF liquor In its boundaries, while
an adjoining county might declare
that 1t is on the side OF the saloons.
II Salt Lake county failed to declare
In favor Of prohibition and Davis
county voted for prohibition there
would grow up line of saloons down
by the Hot Springs and Davis county
boozers would cross over the county
line. Now to bring still closer. II
Weber county did not declare In favor
OF prohibition and had Boxelder, poor
Boxelder would suffer. for there would
grow up line OF saloons out at the
Hot Springs near Ogden.
The church in the resolution says,
I'VE will exercise all the influence
wc can legitImately; we Will do all In
our power to have laws made neces-
saiy to close all saloons, and 1t
places an obligation upon every off,
Ger and member or the Mormon
church to do all he or she can to bring
about legislative enactment to close
the saloon (He then read from the
word OF wisdom) Strong drinks are
rot to be taken internally. If patent
medicines can be regarded as alco-
holic Latter-day Saints should exclude
them from their homes. The church
has declared itself In favor of prohibit
tion. This movement Is going to win,
because God is behind It and 1t is
bound to triumph. The saloon man
Is the cause Of this agitation. There
Is no one who has done 90 much as
the saloon keeper himself. The sa-
loon man makes his saloon as inviting
as possible. A poor man can go to
saloon and get free sandwich and
glass of beer. but he has to pay for
his glass of beer. ! have here some
rather interesting clippings from pa
pers He then quoted an item from
the newspaper about an honest sa-
loon keeper from Tombstone, Arizona.
who advertised his business with
enterprising frankness, and declared
his customers fools
Down in Salt Lake City IN 1908 we
had 1873 saloons and six clubs, where
liquor was sold without restriction.
The license Is $1,000 per year Three
million dollars was spent for liquor, or
$40 per capita The city gets $751;
600 per year from these saloons and
pays out quite that much TO take care
Of criminals.
In the year 1908 eleven thousand sa-
looms were voted out OF existence in
the United States. adding 325 square
miles in area, and adding four million
three hundred people to the dry ter
ntory. Beginning with Jan. 1, 1909,
there will be eight prohibition states.
Beginning with Jan. l, 1909, there will
be legislative fights in nine other
states for prohibition.
Here Is something interesting in re.
gard to liquor traffic annual bill:
Great Britain's annual beer and wine
hGl is over eight hundred million year
for drinks. The items of Great Brit
aims drink bill for 1906 The people
in the United Kingdom drank 1881.
0Q0 barrels of beer, 80, ,302, ,402 gallons
Of spirits. 12.32S.691 gallons of wine,
100000 gallons Of other liquors,
enough to float hundred battle ships,
Usver-1- family concuuaod nearly IN oaI
Ions, costing about SIS, OF say about
$50 per family.
This represents at least about
quarter OF the average British family
income. For the whole kingdom the
liquor bill OF 1906 amounted to 500
million dollars. British public opinion
il torn now by two insistent demands,
one for old age pensions and the other
for more battleships. Navy advocates
say that the country must build two
battleships to GeTmany's one. The
most liberal plan which goes far be
You'd anything now proposed by the
government, would cost a little over
cne-sixth OF the nations drink bill
A seventh part Of the remainder would
build ten new battleships, which Is
more than the most enthusiastic ad.
Nocates OF naval expansion have
thought to be necessary
The railroads and large corporations
OF the government are now refusing TO
employ men who drink. He mentioned
the depravity in the United States
and said there would soon be a polti-
cal reformation. So. If your repre-
q N tod
on this question, It is your duty TO
send petitions to them and let them
know what you want in regard TO
legislation of the liquor question. 1t
Is your duty to write personal letters
to them, telling how you want them
to vote on this question.
saloon man will say that prohibi-
tiUn is unconstitutional, because 1t is
destructive Of property. What did
Abraham Lincoln do when he abo-
iehed slavery? He destroyed prop
erty. Every negro had been bought
and he was deprlving them of their
property. A nation rose and fought
or that question, and paid by the
lives of hundreds OF thousands OF the
best citizens that the question might
be settled. What did the United
States do when 1t confiscates the prop
rrty Of the Mormons, although it af-
terwards refunded it2 On the same
principle In regard to the property OF
the saloon keepers and brewers. they
will be given time to get out But
you needn't shed any tears about these
good fellows; they have been getting
the money for years that some poor
wife should have had. How crazy
men are for drink, and how much
crazier they are after they get It,
Every thinking woman in Utah
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