The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-05-30

years there has NOT BEEN A SIN.
gle FAILURE IN BUSINESS in the
town and one wholesale grocer told
me that collections from retailers
were fifty per cent better because the
money that went for whisky went to
the grocery store instead. There may
be some moss-back business man in
Wichitaa who think that business
would be just as good with the sa.
looms but il there is, do not know
him. A year after the saloons were
| closed | went on business excursion
or boosters trip-with eighty.one
of the best business men in Wichita.
We were out week and | being the
editor of the Wichita Eagle which
has just recently changed from lire
long enemy Of prohibition to sup.
porter of the law, naturally sounded
the business men separately to find
how they stood. Seventy-nine of them
were pronounced in their opinion
that the greatest single business
achievement the city had made was
to suppress the saloon. ONE OF
THEM ONLY thought it would be
better to have the saloon. The re.
naming one did not speak with un.
til got home when he proved to be
the most enthusiastic prohibitionist
of them ALI
1t may be that some one might saw
that Wichita and Salt Lake City ex.
list under different circumstances
and that what might be good policy
for one of them would not be good
policy under the other. | do not be.
lieve that there is a city on earth
whose business circumstances iusti.
flies the saloon. 1t is not to the in.
terest of the business man anywhere
to see his. customers, especially those
who are laboring men, spending in
the saloon what should be spent in
the grocery store, the shoe store or
meat market-or that which should
be put into little home instead of
paying rent. All logic and philosophy
is against it and KANSAS HAS
PROVED IT.
Until 1909 Kansas allowed drug
stores to sell whisky and other H.
quors foT medical purposes This priv
ilege was abGsed and they became
grog shops. Kansas determined that
the best prohibition was absolute pro.
hibition-no going back you see-and
prohibited the sale of liquor for any |
purpose What happened? The bank |
deposits which had been paining grad. |
aully about a million a year -
mean state bank deposits--MADE A |
SUDDEN JUMP Of $4,000, 900 or
from $S3,00O,OOO to $4,000, 900. which
shows that something happened to
interest business men in prohibition.
And to show that some specific and
unusual thing caused this the demos.
It's again assumed a steady and nor.
mai increase which they have main.
tanned ever since. The closing of the
saloon drug stores simply added to
the bank deposits for 1909 the sum
OF $l4,OOO,OOO instead of about ST..
100000.
In narrow sense Kansas has no
right to interfere with the policy of
Utah or any other state. In broad
sense she has the right to show all
the world good thing. At any rate
am not only replying to statements
tttacking the policy of our state and
lmpeaching a law that is a BLESS.
ING TO EVERY MAN IN IT. For
that if for no other reason am
writing this somewhat long and bur.
ried letter which | hope will be of
some advantage to you, not so much
for the sake of arguing with the Salt
Lake paper as it is for the benefit of
humanity in your state. | wish had
the time TO give you a more detailed
letter, but, instead | am sending Won