The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-11
MAYOR ROSES LECTURE.

AS dignified and mastery effort.
Mayor Roses lecture was a pleasing
disappointment. to the people of Og'
den who favor prohibition. There Is
scarcely prohibitionist in ogden who
could not have done better on the
side of liquor.
Here is one OF his amusing gems:
Every boot-legger will vote for pro
hibitlon." AS boot-leggers are nearly
always x-saIoonkeepers or drinkers,
We all have mind picture of just
how they will vote.
Prohibition and anti-saloon move
ments have made more drunkards
than the liquor traffic has made
But that presuppoSeS that more
liquor Is sold under prohibition In
which case YOU would think all the
liquor men would work Tor prohibition,
but they don't seem TO.
Mayor Rose SAYS he believes in the
Declaration of independence. where it
guarantees 10 every man life liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
We almost blush to set right the
MAJOR of Milwaukee on a point OF his
tory, but really the Declaration of In
dependence did not guarantee any
thing to anybody. He was evidently
thinking of the constitution Of the
United States. The Declaration as
serts that we are endowed by the
Creator with certain lnalienable rights
among them being life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness"
But IL does not make a man happy
TO be shot by a drunken man, nor a
woman happy 10 be whipped by a
drunken man, nor a child happy to be
starved OF deprived of clothing by a
drunken father and so for the good of
the many. laws must sometimes be
made which curtail the liberty OF one
In order that the many may have all
the above blessings.
When Mr. Rose said that seventeen
states had adopted prohibition be
tween 1850 and 1860 and that only
Maine clunG 10 the law he forgot TO
say that the great civil war played
havoc not onl with prohibition but
many other moral measures. II the
war; had not occurred nothing on
earth could have checked the onward
march of prohibition, Liquor dealers
had never paid any revenue before the
war II was war measure. adopted
TO raise revenue for immediate use
and President Lincoln gave his con-
sent 10 the measure with the under
standing that II should cease after the
war, with the greatest OF reluctance.
The states that had adopted prohibit
ton naturally allowed their patriotism
and wish to help the government In
its hour OF need TO break down prohI-
bition
Maine may not have so much mon.
ey in its banks as some of the other
states. but there are more bank de-
posits according to population than in
any other state of the Union The
money Is In the hands OF many in
stead OF some being very wealthy and
others desperately poor. Wisconsin
may have a big hank account hut
take out the bank accounts OF its Mi.
waukce brewers and liquor men and
what would be the per capita bank ac.
count?
Maine a few years ago had sS5 I'm
bank for every man. woman and child,
while tho average bank account of
the rest of the states was s2S When
Mr.. Rose SAYS the total amount Of
money in bank in Haino Is not so
great as in some other states. please
remember that Maine is a smaller
state than some others and has not
so many inhabitants.
Maine pays her school teachers bet.
ter than any other state. Don't for