The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-08-18
GARDEN BOOZE.

When war gardens grow whisky, gin and beer instead
OF potatoes beetS and carrots it is time for the purity
squad of the police force to interfere From war garden
and from another cache the police have taken thousands
of dollars worth of ntOxcants, intended for booeggng
purposes.
Thus has begun the test of prohibition in Utah. For
many years prohibition was opposed by great number
of voters the theory that it did not prohibit and that
it better to bear the admitted evils of the saloons than
the more serious evils of wholesale boOtlegging.
Experience with the prohibitory laws of earlier times
was responsible for the opposition of many who in theory
foes of the liquor traffic They licensed saloons
replaced by "hoes in the wal' and "bnd pigs" They
accustomed to beer destroy their health with the
vicious liquor furnished forth by these booeggng estab
hshmentS In many places, as in Iowa, prohibition
at one time virtually abandoned under system OF
regulation provided by the sO-called muct law 1t be-
came universal sheer that prohibition failure but
the enemies of the saloon and of the liquor traffic per-
sisted in their efforts to frame laws which would stamp
out the acknowledged evils Of unenforced prohibition
The of prohibition continued to spread in spite
of handcaps and setbacks More and the public be-
came convinced that prohibition helped men to keep SOBER
and they believed that state could be made "bOne dry
prohibition would be an undsputed success Then came
the decision Of the United States supreme court uphold
ing law which made it illegal to ship liquor into state
in any way that cOnfcted with the laws of that state
This tremendous aid to the enforcement of prohi
btion and doubt did much to win to the dry
many who opposed to prohibition because in prac
tce, it did not prohibit
The fact that big coaches of liquor have been unearthe
by the police will be surprise to the public and shock
Men will begin to question the efficacy of the law despite
its stringent "bone dry provisions Those who have al.
ways fought prohibition will eagerly point out that it is
not working any better in Utah than in some other states
which have had unfortunate experiences with dry laws
But 1t is too early to arrive at such conclusion For
short period the police will be able to find big stocks of
secreted liquor. little later only small stocks will be
discovered Whether these will continue to be unearthed
is matter of cOnectnre but there is good to be-
eve that the state will eventually be made "bone dry
The liquor which has been unearhed all in the state
before August Not pint of it, should say has been
shipped in since the dry law became effective Unless
means found for contraband trade in liquor between
Utah and neghbOrng states present stocks will be
exhausted and then will be impossible to repensh them
The diScOuraging experience of the booteggers who
planned to evade the law great scale and failed will
have sautary effect upon others who may be tempted
to indulge in booteggng So far little has occurred to
inspire the booteggers with hope that they profit by
defiance of the law On the other hand it fairly certain
that there is still much liquor in Salt Lake The obseant
have deScened that it not difficult for those desiring
liquor to obtain it.
If we to have prohibition law it should be made
much of as possible. The booegging trade
should be suppressed ruthlessv otherwise the time will
come when only the noc do+riNS liquors will be fur
nShed to the patrons of tho hoer~ers and the health
and morals of the comruntv will suffer correspondnplv
Moreover the state will become laughing stock to out
sders.
The purity suuad has n1ade excellent beginnng and
it is to be hoped thNt th fforts AGAINST booeggerS
will be crowned with complete success.
Tala