--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Smith, Joseph F. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 14 number: 8 published: 1911-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Joseph F. Smith, "Editors’ Table—Banish Liquor," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 8 (June 1911): 735.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1408unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1408unse start_page: 735 end_page: 735 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1408unse publication_year: 1911 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- Editor's Table. Banish Liquor! Regarding the election on June 27, when all people living in Utah cities and towns may vote for the abolishment of the saloon, and for the prohibition of the sale of liquor, I desire to express the hope that all Latter-day Saints of voting age, and all other good citizens, will take advantage of the opportunity and cast their votes against liquor. And let us not only vote on June 27, but from now on until that date, let us work whole-heartedly for the cause of temperance and the abolishment of the saloon. There is no valid or convincing argument, economic, social, financial, moral or religious, against wiping out the liquor traffic. On the contrary, every strong point favors the use of our franchise for the establishment of temperance, the abolishment of the saloon, and the absolute prohibition of the sale of liquor. There is now only the one issue before us, and as Latter-day Saints, members and authorities, who have always favored temperance, the day has now come when we can strike unitedly for a holy cause. Let us strike in harmony, hard and true! Joseph F. Smith.