The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
Dry Towns Wet
Again Declares
]. s. Senator
James e. MARITIME Says People Learn
That So-cailed Prohibition Lowers
Civic Standards

We the Logan Improvement
League commend the following ex.
tracts from the MARITIME speech to the
voters of Logan:
Illinois towns and those of other
states that are voting out their sa.
looms now are sure, within the next
two or three years, to return TO the
wet column, according to James Z.
Mart ne, United States senator from
New Jersey, who was in Chicago yes.
terday with a party of seventy Wash.
ington legislators and members OF
their families on the way to Homo.
lulu for an investigation of local con.
ditions there.
IL was sorry to notice that mum.
Der OF Illinois towns voted the sa.
looms out this week." said Senator
Maritime. They will regret their &C.
ton in time. Prohibition has prov.
ed itself all over the country, after
years Of experiment to be the worst
kind Of farce. 1t Is failure and
failure of hypocrisy. II changes a day
light business, open and above board
and subject to regulation and observ.
alton into a sneaking midnight huck-
steering in dark corners, that Is not
susceptible to observation or regul.
alton. 1t does not prohibit for stats.
tics show that the consumption Is as
large as ever. The only change is that
1t lowers the quality of the liquor
sold and that It turns a legitimate
business into an outlaw trade, a
change through which everybody con.
nected with 1t, whether producer or
consumer suffers a moral degenera.
ton.
Prohibition Not New
when the good people OF this and
other states vote out set Of saloons
they think they are doing new
thing. They think that the world is
getting better; that folks are grow
ing into higher ideals and that in
short time the liquor business will
be no more and drunkenness will
have disappeared from the face Of
the earth.
But these people should look up
the history Of prohibition II they did
they would find that the dry idea.
like other ideas, has It's ups and
downs, that II comes in waves, catch.
ing the popular fancy. The people
get an idea that prohibition will raise
conditions. They get worked up
over It and enthusiastic, for they be-
lieve they are doing good thing
Then the state goes dry. After a
year OF two or three the eyes of a
majority have been opened to the
hollow mockery of prohibition. They
see that 1t does not prohibit, that II
only makes conditions worse. AS q
result they become disguised and
vote the state wet again.
Always Wet Again, He says
"This has happened time and again
/ have gone through the Cough p:o'
hibition campaign. the Washington
an campaign and a dozen others.
Each time the people grew enthusiasts
tic, thinking they were backing 9
real reform. But in year or two
or three they were disillusioned AID
returned to the old, normal, regulat
ed, revenue producing system Each
time the people said that the saloon?
we're doomed and that We would nave
eternal rational prohibition. hut eact
time the fact that human beings are
only human asserted itself and the
saloons came back as the lesser o.
two evils.
This must inevitably occur agar
in those states where the drys are
now winning victories, am familiar
with the situation In all states, par
ticularly in Maine, Georgia and Nortl
Carolina. Everywhere I find 1t
complete failure. In Georgia, whicI
has been pointed out as so shining al
example OF prohibition, this is par
ti,ularly so. Any honest Georgia,
will admit this at once. The cond
ton in Atlanta is ludicrous, Hok'
Smith tried to defend it, but coul'
not. The saloons are as wide opel
as ever. The only difference is tina
they sell cigars in the front room an
beer and rum in the back room. Il
the biggest and finest hotels in Al
Ianta saw more highballs and cock
tails than l have ever seen anywher
else in my life.
One Year In Plainfeld
81 have seen prohibition tried i
our own city, Plainheld, n. ], On
: wear was enough. In place of res