Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], June 03, 1911, Image 1

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l VOL. XIX SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 3, 1911 No. 7 H
H. PROHIBITION MEANS BREAD LINES AND STARVATION. I
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j- Would you vote to take away the means of subsistence of a large number of the working people of Utah? H
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m The margin between poverty and destitution is always slight iirlarge cities and any sudden economic disturbance wipes H
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0 The bread line, the soup-kitchen, the doleingout.of charity these are the logical-'sequence of sudden stoppages of em- I
Hi ployment for a small army of workers. '"When payrolls fail the'work'er is idle and Ins family faces destitution. Do 'yu I
H -want to be the cause of this? H
H Prohibition is a blind Sampson,' courting self ruin by beating its head against the pillars of economic truth. H
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Hi Who would feed this army of destitute dependents if prohibition fanaticism should prevent thcir securing work? H
H Prohibition is blind to economic laws. Its basis is fanaticism and proscription. It represents intollerance and irre- H
R sponsibility. It refuses to see that men are not reformed by laws. H
Hi Prohibition does not stop the traffic of, nor the drinking of alcoholic beverages. It merely drives communities and H
H individuals to law evasion. H
Hi The weapons used by the prohibitionists to make men better are the same as those used by the witch-burners of Salem. H
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H Prohibition would throw an army of working people out of employment. H
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It would put a large number of business men out of business. H
H It would throw a large number of store buildings on the rental market. H
H It would empty many a home. )H
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It would destroy a large part of the revenue now received by the city.
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H What does it offer for this demoralization? Nothing. It docs not propose to decrease drunkenness, crime, immoral- H
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M9 IT IS A BAD BARGAIN AND THE PROPOSAL SHOULD BE VOTED DOWN. H
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