Prohibition in Utah

PROHIBITION IN UTAH. Utah has joined the movement for prohibition so manifest in the United States during the year 1908, which has voted 11,000 saloons out of existence, and added 325,000 square miles in area and 4,300,000 in population to "dry'' territory. The year 1909 began with eight prohibition states, and it will likely end with nine more in line for state- wide prohibition — Utah and Idaho included, let us hope. Hon. Heber J. Grant and Rev. Fuller, officers of the National Anti- Saloon League, are hard at work, and already long petitions, containing thousands of names of citizens from various parts of Utah have come to the Legislature now in session, pleading for state-wide prohibition. Leading organizations, including the Y. M. M.I. A., have taken up the battle cry; and the fight in the Legislature will be earnest and uncompromising. A comparison of the accompanying map with one printed a year ago in the Era will give the reader a splendid idea of the growth of the temperance movement now sweeping over the land with elements of permanence and effectiveness. It is taken from the Anti-saloon Year Book, 1909. The black states are "wet," the partly black, local option or partly "dry," and the white, "dry." "WET" AND "DRY" MAP OF THE UIIITED STATES