The Liquor Question. — A temperance wave or, more righthly, a check to the liquor traffic, appears to be sweeping over the United States. There are now only six states and two territories; namely, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah and Colorado, and Arizona and New Mexico, where the licensed saloon today has undisputed territory; and in Idaho the Sunday closing law, enacted in 1906, has already entered the wedge to prohibition. The strong sentiment among the Latter-day Saints who, strange to say, occupy much of the ground where the saloon now has undisputed sway, is sure to have a telling effect in aiding the anti- saloon league to bring these six states and two territories into line for prohibition.

The accompanying map shows where prohibition has conquered; the blackened areas show the states wherein the liquor traffic holds undisputed sway under license. The parts left white indicate the territory where state or local prohibition laws are in force; while the shaded states are those which are part "wet" and part "dry."'

. . . As this sentiment is approaching the Rocky Mountain States from both the East and the West, it is a foregone conclusion that the suppression of the liquor traffic in them will also be very welcome; and further, that the Latter-day Saints will unitedly and enthusiastically join in bringing about its complete extermination. Saloon keepers who, driven from the east, by the temperance movement, are now' applying for licenses in the towns and settlements of Utah and Idaho, should be firmly discouraged by the temperence sentiment of the Latter-day Saints.