The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-12-23
GOVERNOR
DELIVERS
ADDRESS ON
PROHIBITION

Governor Carlson was given hearty
greeting and reception at Florence
last Friday evening, when he spoke
at a public mass meeting at the
Methodist church on prohibition and
the enforcement Of the new anti-liqlor
law of the state, which goes INTO Ell
feet the first of January. There were
nearly five hundred people at the
church to hear his address, which
was pronounced to be the most forci-
BILE ever heard there on the subject.
Several short taias were made at
the meeting before the introduction
of Governor Carlson, all of them in
commendation of the prohibition law.
Rev George L. Burroughs. pastor of
the Baptist church, announced union
watch night service by the Evangeli-
cal churches of Florence on Decem-
ber thirty-frst and limited at a plan
for a county law enforcement lea
que. Senator ]. C. Johnston and Lieu
tenant Governor NJ. E. Lewis also de-
Iivered brief addresses. Governor
Carlson said in part;
AT this time would urge the ac-
ceptance of special responsibility
by this community for the effective
enforcement of the prohibition law
from a statewide standpoint. The
test of the success of this law will not
be determined by its successful en-
forcement in Greeley or those places
where public opinion strongly upholds
it but by its success at the places
" oppose it. Now, that the law in
terms and jurisdiction is state wide
the interest of the good citizen in its
enforcement must reach out from the
municipality and extend to the widest
borders Of the state Reinforcing
this principle of citizenship OF state
wide conception is the fact that the
law itself in its penalties fixes an eco
nomic responsibility upon the whole
state. The second ofIense is punish
cd by 4 term IN the state peniteatIary.
The expense of Incarceration will not
be borne by the community from
which the prisoner came and in
which there may be wholesale law
lessness. but the obligations will be
shared by every citizen and every
community.
/ believe that this is the greatest
law so far drafted in colorado's his
tory but like everything of import
ance the fruits of victory will never
come to the Indifferent and the weak;
1t only comes to the alert, to the
active and to the strong. Enforce
this law in this commonwealth and
we VIII step to a higher plane of
morality. of education; we will be
united closer together as eommun-
ity; We will have more of a state
spirit; we will largely abolish pauper
ism and crime and we. of this gener-
alton, who have had our part in fixing
It upon the books and establish
ng it as vital and effective
thing in life of this commonwealth.
viii have done something consequen.
tial in history, and future generations
will point back with pride to us as
real empire builders"
Governor Carlson. who was accom-
panied to Florence by Mrs. Carlson
was entertained at the home of Lieut.
Governor and Mrs. NJ. E. Lewis dur
ing his stay in Florence. A large
number Of the citizens of Florence
called to pay their respects to the
DISTINGUISHED visitors, who were the
guests at an elaborate dinner at the
Lewis home. They returned to Den.
yer on d. & r. C. train No. lS Fri
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