Editors’ Table: Victory for Temperance

Editor's Table. Victory for Temperance. Out of more than a hundred incorporated towns and cities in Utah, only twenty-three voted for the saloon, at the temperance election, June 27. As reported in the daily papers, the total vote cast for the saloon was 28,650, out of which number Salt Lake City cast 14,008 and Ogden 4,713, which leaves only about ten thousand votes in the remaining towns and cities for the saloon. The total vote against the saloon, on the other hand, was about 36,246, (Salt Lake City casting 9,327 and Ogden 3,051) leaving about twenty-four thousand in the remaining towns and cities against the saloon. Outside of Salt Lake, Ogden, and Farmington, the remaining twenty city and town corporations that gave majorities for the saloon were mining communities, which indicates that the Latterday Saints, who form the majorities in the remaining towns and cities, are true to their professions of temperance and are opposed to the liquor traffic. In Salt Lake and Ogden the Saints are in the minority; while at Farmington the races and pleasure resort gave that agricultural community to the saloons, a condition which cannot long last. The total vote for the saloon, as stated, was 28,650 as compared with 36,246 against the saloon, leaving a majority of 7,596 in all the incorporated towns and cities of Utah against the liquor traffic. Salt Lake cast 14,008 for and 9,327 against the saloon, and Ogden, 4,713 for and 3,051 against. The county units that voted, excepting Carbon, all went against the saloon. Undoubtedly, in the remaining county units, where the law already abolished the saloon, the overwhelming majority are against that institution; so that, all in all, the victory for temperance was extremely encouraging and satisfactory to all its friends and faithful workers.