The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-05-20

evil of tipping by favoring the open
saloon under strict regulation and SUI
pervision. The woman who marches
in that parade has the right to do
so, and the accusation that she is IA.
voring propaganda that will injure
business, and that will eventually re.
suit in the maintenance of low dives
and resorts should not be brought
against her She is honest in her
opinions and they are her own.
Every good woman favors temper
ance. She believes that the state of
Utah would be UNNECESSARILY improv.
ed II not drop OF liquor we're sold
within its borders. The women of
Utah can absolutely unite on that be-
lief, and they thoroughly desire it.
But at that point they will divide
There viii be those who believe that
by prohibition the sale of liquor can
be stopped, Utah rid of the traffic,
and the question settled once for all.
There will also be those who believe
that prohibition does not prohibit,
that the cause of temperance is best
served by having liquor sold in the
regulated saloon, tnat it is impossible
to stop its sale altogether and that
the influence of the dives which may
spring up in the train of prohibition
is infinitely worse than the open sa-
| loon.
Each of those two classes of wom-
en- is working toward the same end,
but by different methods. One be-
lieves that the sale of liquor can be
absolutely prohibited, the other be-
lieves that it cannot be, and that the
regulated traffic is better under the
one than the unregulated and illegal
traffic under the other. There is no
occasion for them to quarrel. There
can be sane arguments, one can at
tempt to convert the other; but there
need be no casting Of verbal brick.
bats, and one need not remain away
from her favorite card club merely
because the other is a member.
The danger lies in the intolerance
that may be exhibited by one side
or the other. Intolerance is neither
modern or civilized; it belongs back
in the dark ages. Intolerance is res
pcnslble for more ruined homes, more
blighted lives, more human misery
and suffering than intemperance ev-
err can be, although the victims of the
latter are many and various:
The trouble with your average good
citizen who believes that a dry"
town means dead town is that he
has no tolerance for the rights or
opinions of others and regards his
opponents as bigots. And your aver.
age good citizen who believes that
prohibition will bring on the millen.
ium regards those who differ from
him as immoral, Incorporate, in
league with the liquor traffic, and
everything that one ought not to be.
Both will have to revise their views
before this liquor election is over, IL
the cities and towns OF the state are
TO pass June 81 without serious in
jury being done.
This liquor election can be held
quietly decently in order, and can
be viewed from the other side of
June % without rancor. 1t can be
SO conducted that those who actively
participate may retain their friends
may be on speaking terms with their
neighbors when it is all over and
may review the camapign as an hon.
CRADLE contest between opposing
opinions, each side concedlng the
honesty and good intent of the other.
Or it can be SO conducted that one
class in the community may be ar.
rayed against another, lifelong friend.
ships be broken animosities aroused
that are carried into business rela