Bannered across the front page of the London Evening News one afternoon last week were the headlines:
PROHIBITION IS DEAD- THE MORMONS KILLED IT- WHOOPEE HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN.
¶ Underneath was a picture of a man guzzling beer from a keg in a New York bar.
¶ The London Star's headlines squawled: THE DECIDING VOTE BY LATTER DAY SAINTS.
¶ Said the Evening Standard: FINAL U. S. STATE VOTE ENDS REIGN OF GANGS.
Thus did whiskey-producing Britain greet the 5-to-4 vote by which Utah last week became the 36th Repeal State.* Americans, knowing...
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