--- 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: 10 published: 1911-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Joseph F. Smith, "Editors’ Table—Victory for Temperance," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 10 (August 1911): 936.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14010unse 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: improvementera14010unse start_page: 936 end_page: 936 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14010unse 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. --- # 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.