Prohibition For Ann Arbor

Oor news columns state that the University Prohibition club is getting out blank petitions to the legislature asking that saloons and sale of liquor be prohibited within five miles of Ann Arbor. It will be done on the plea.we presume, that as 1,500 to 1,800 young men attend school here, such an extraordinary exception should be made to save them from the evil effects of the saloon influence. We have often stated our reasons for believing that prohibition of the saloon is the proper way to deal with the evil; but we cannot believe that Ann Arbor is any more in need of a prohibitory law than any other town. Unquestionably many students patronize the saloons; but the proporüon is not large when compared with other young men. As a rule the Btudents come here with a purpose " their brains are busy with study of books, with fraternity or literary society, or with athletics, and thus many are from saloon influences who olherwise in idle moments might be drawn in. At least there is less danger to young men who are in active mental work. Besides, if such an exception were made of Ann Arbor, it would inake the - iloon opposition here all the fiercer, and there would be danger that the city would be given over even more fully to the saloon power than it is now. Prohibition in Ann Arbor even if enforced nvonld do no more good than enforced prohibition in Adrián, Jackson, or Lansing.