The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-01
Marvin Pack Declares ri
Average Retail Liquor Deal
er Does Not Obey Law,
MOST DRINKING PLACES /.
CALLED JOINTS AND DIV
Joseph J. Cannon Suggests n
Citizens Dump $4,000
Daily Into Sewer.

That the average saloon man h..
intention of obeying the laws mad
the regulation Of the liquor traffic.
the majority Of Salt Lake IS saloo,>
joints and "dives,D and that
can count the gentlemen S saIoons, ,
Sail Lake City on the fingers ~
hand, were statements made last :,
by Marvin Pack, former polica IA
Of Salt Lake City, as he spoke "a
Anti-Liquor league forces at a
meeting held at Second South and n
streets.
Joseph j. Cannon also deliyer.1
brief address, conlining his arou.
mainly to the contention that even
did hurt business TO close the sslc>
the welfare of humanity should
placed higher than the dollar. Befv'
800 and 400 persons gathered y,
corner and listened closely to tbs
dresses,
Defines the Issue.
Mr.. Pack began his address Nv
ing that the citizens of Salt Lake
forced upon them the question Of hi
whether or not they would eontino<
countenance the bringing of min
degradation upon men. women and Il
dren. He held that AS police n
he had had opportunity TO study IL
feet of the liquor traffic and had "a.
IL TO be universally bad.
Then followed the statement That
saloon was an enemy TO law and the
loon men, taken as class. would In.
any law 10 add profits TO the buSs1
Pack declared that the majority d!
looms knowingly harbored minors, kn.
ingly sold liquor TO Young womn
tender years and thereby contributed
their downfall, and were perfcctlv. n
ing to sell liquor 80 little boys and h
if they came with the excuse thz(
was for their fathers. He deels
that the average saloon man would c|
his eyes to the fact that the mislead
of an innocent girl was accomplis
through his agency if he could thef|
increase his profits. He accounted
more arrests in dry than in g n
cities by explaining that in The I'd
towns every drunken man was arrcs|
while in the "wct' cities the drun|
men were given shelter and protet|
in saloons and only taken into cusi
when they became maudlin or distur
the peace.
Few Drunks Arrested.
"For every 100 men who pet dr|
n n q
he affirmed. IF you vote againsl/
saloon you stand for the uplifting
the race, If you vote with the n
you are allied with all that draoz
manity down. There will be mora
piness when the saloon is done Al
with and the pay check of the lab0<
man goes into the legitimate char
of business and trade.
"The first essential of good loc1'
for "A saloon is to have a good o01
tunlty of violating the law. ~
Joseph j. Cannon said that Will
Of the newspapers of the city had 2
icised him for his logic in prev
address, ii seemed to him perfeetly n
zeal to conclude that if the Un1
States were justified in stepping on|@
of It's boundaries 10 stop the shed
of blood in foreign land, the n11
would be fully justified in stoppinf
liquor traffic, which, he affirmed, -
annually in the United States q +
ber of persons equivalent to those
III all the wars of the world iron
years before the Christian era.
If the business interests weYe u
fer by reason of the abolition Of ~
loon, Mr.. Cannon said he had st1
out plan that might take the pltc
the saloon In the business world
was TO have the people of Salt
CITY every day OF the year dump
into the main sewer. so that this ~
might be irrevocably lost TO The
He declared that if the abolition n
saloon would mean higher taxes srI
increased burden, it should still
complished for the sake of the
and children who would gain in
ness thereby,
Third Ward Meeting.
Another "dry' meeting was he|l
night at the Seventeenth ward rne
house, the general campaign anq
trlct committees of the Third mum
ward comprising the greater part
audience. There were about l50
sons in attendance Miss Bessie
sang Drink to Me Only With
Eyes, and Judge George F. SOC.
delivered the principal address, de:
mainly with the success Of prohib'
in the state of North Dakota whei
formerly resided and helped to
the anti-liquor law In reply to the,
ness men of the city who sigpeo
" Appeal TO Reason" Judge Gooo
said he believed that many OF tneu'
nto stop to read the document pe
they signed it.
Miss Irene White read The fI
a Drink, and Nephi l.. Morris m'
brief address. arguing from the
point that the saloon benefited ~
and did untold harm to many.
Tonight the "drys' will hold
ing in the Twentv-sixth ward ehap
which the Rev. G.. A. Foote ana
Grant will be the speakers.
night Mrs. Lulu Shepard will delv
address in the Eighteenth ward my
house.
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