PROHIBITIONS SURE ADVANCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 12

PROHIBITIONS SURE ADVANCE.

The News of Salt Lake City, Utah, I \ fees steacty advance of prohibition and J the probability that the wave may £oon f sweep over even that somewhat hack- (

ward State. It says in an editoria which seems to commit it fully to th prohibition position :—: — " The back track of any army is pro tected by a rear guard, and in Utah': Legislature to-day this rear guard i fighting in the hope of burying in- a Sen a t« Committee's pri-i-ate graveyard bill: for prohibition. Once they may do it but not twice. j " The conditions that make prohibitioi j laws necessary now are only transitory j The day they foretell is a day when leeis lation against the saloon will be no mor< necessary than legislation compelling people to bathe. Alcohol is coming rapidly to be considered by the natioi at large in a class, not of beverages oi [ medicines, but of poisons, such as opiun and cocain. " It was a long fight and a hard fiphi , to stamp as a criminal any person wh< j should attempt to poison the people'; food. But the fight was one that had t< win because it was the people's fight foi j advancement. Exactly - similar cansei ! have led the people to discern anothei of their enemies and to take the fielt againet it. Wily brewers and sagacioui saloon men will see this, and begin t( shape their affairs accordingly. A nro hibition law it may be possible to delay j A prohibition sentiment cannot be over come, and it is becoming a universe sentiment of the heart " i