Show IN H ANSWER TO commee RM 31 T ON PARK C ay il h S THE OTHER FEL LOW SEES ITI mm LALOO 1 11 KEEPING HONORABLE occupation r clr F f in a recent issue of the tinb times there lacre t appears tin an editorial comment on oil the action of tile the city council of park city raising the saloon license to per quarter and sinco since the editor invites invite discussion on the subject I 1 as it a lover of fair play W will ill attempt to show tile other side of the shield as tile the weakness of tile the editors argument in commending the actions action of th alic city council the editor objects to the statement of a saloon man that the action was unwise at this time as it would drive men out of business depreciator tho the value of pyo property perty in general and work a Jard ship on men in ili the business in ili ninety nino nine cases out of it a hundred aitho american cities boast of so call ed cd business busine qs administrations and ones imagination c cannot annot conciso a worse mess iness than that produced by the average anic american rican city council nna apparently park city is no exception to the rule liaising lia raisina ising tile alio license will never resulting result resul tin in lessening the number of saloons nor the drunks dr ts but in adulteration of the liquors liell 11 ls in n other 0 alic words tho the higher the liec tiso tho more deadly drugs will the business man servo serve his s A saloon man 1 I ia 1 lust annuch ct itulid to the W ri ammo I 1 al 0 of business anu as a sto re keeper A ice either bither trado tr ado is for pral profit t and an the grocery man inin will sell us em am bahmed beef or any ail rd adulteration if there be profit in ill it even though lie he knows know it wil injure our health as unscrupulously as tile the saloon man will vill sell deadly drugs instead of pure liquors raise the license for fog the store keeper and lie win ralso raise his prices and soil sell us in adulteration and sh oddies raise tho the licen licence zo for the saloon kanand lie ho M not go out of business is as a rule but sell drugs and w water ater if lie he can cannot not raise his prices yet society uphold tho the former abuses tile latter but where do you draw the line the averin sw american farmer is supposedly Bup engaged in an ail honorable acou pation yet at least one third ot at his time is devoted to 0 o grain produce tion forthe for tho distilleries and brew erics cries we have overproduction over production in nearly every staple article for V which ivo io are now seeking for i an mirk markets ets and would bl bi in ill the some fix in i egardo to grain were it not nob for tho the liquor traffic raise tile price nud and instead of pure grain rain liquor tho american Ami rican cr r will swallow vv allow poisons in in ven even e greater quantities acs ics for lie will not rober up because a 0 legislative body imposes imp bics higher duties on oil liquors as even prohibits their public sale personally I 1 am opposed 0 to tile liquor traffic but ani am equally opp os ed to tile the traffic t affia in ill what we cat and beirl as in what wo we drink I 1 hate all fake measures mear me ures and an d the one in question ia nothing else were the truth known tile city council probably raised tho license not with it reforming ming object but for tl lie le sake of revenue without in increasing taxation direct knowing how easily the people are fooled the statement that liquors tire lire poison and responsible for most of tile vila evils in hl tho the world is ia a very broad one to E icy py the least since some soma of our very ablest physicians declare that liquor has saved more lives than it lia his Aes destroyed troyed in early days when nera man was wag allowed to maki mak 1 liis his 0 ova ni liquor quo r ho ha d alc unac tia cl puro pure U and I 1 do nr iv t k belie atia ha itte ron car beet giener gi enee ha 1 as ba 1 nor half as health destroying as at present neither r do I 1 believe that the consumption of liduor per capita was wag as great tw a the consumption of the swill paraded under till the name of liquor is today and again I 1 do not think that arty ally government has got the moral right ta abridge the individuals li fre freedom edoin in 1 to his daily read bread nor to liis his drink if the individual lias a maraland mo moral raland and legal right to make inake bread out of his grain and cabit cat it then where from do we derive our just rights to enjoin him hi t in from making liis his grain into liquor and drinking it how many men would emp overl sh themselves drink ing in pure whiskey at 10 cents a gal ion a n A civilized society will w ill not force its citizens to swallow poisons by making it imposible impossible impo sible to got any tiling thing else but will extend individual freedom to its members in in regards to their personal I 1 habibi ia 1 1 ts wherever it does not injure society as a whole the united states government saw a great source of revenue in tile tho liquor traffic and so prohibited individual production pio of pure liquor and made itself an in direct accessory to the crime of trafficking icing in poison which undermine mine the health of the nation As to the assertion that liquor is tile great est eat promoter of crime and that most of the income of a city is expended in ill protecting people from the criminal element clement that patronizes tile the salo saloons I 1 will ivill state that I 1 lived in Bing lingham liani many years when tile the peace conserving force consisted of one lone constable while no coni unity could boast ot at moro more saloons in proportion to pop population yet I 1 hardly over lock ed cd my doors and never had five f cents cats worth of property stolen and people will tell you that theft and robbery were almost unknown crimes in tile early days of bingham nor ans iv is a penal institution ever recruited recruit loss ly by a community than thai by iby bingham yet it has haa always been what mint you call calla a wide do open town own where gambling and ail drinking in were going on oil without any attempt at secrecy I 1 am not defending tile system by any means but bul I 1 do object to placing tho the blanid for almost every ill in society on just ono one form of traffic in mana necessities and I 1 mainstain maina tain that tho saloon keeker is as 03 legitimate and as lionor ablo a business man as tho rest of the business fraternity again the saloon lias has come to be to a very largo large extent the working A or king g mins mans club and in inn a great ni many illy places th or cro are no other provisions as mado for liis his entertainment unless you c call all tile average 11 danco anco 1 hall ill or fourth rate theatre with fifth rato rate shows allows and even they are not to tile tho man mail on oil night light shift when society proves itself capable to provide cleaner healthier moro more attractive places of amusement with a refined and moral atmosphere for its workers then aud not all then should it meddle eddle with what now exists when society will share it ti capacity to lovida an liono hollo raulo rabi occupation for saloon joell gnall roan naho hoin ill it lias has ciulo lle mentally aud and physically unfit to hold hid his own 0 iii in in the fierce existing in the sag sla ve mayket market than tl i fetu impose impo ga reform but until then lot it lastly ny as to tile ad ballod raap prospect fc able citizen wilk too decent to m in liale the hie of tue sillo oll and listen I 1 to tile tho vulgar vernacular of the drunkard that only app apply 13 to innocent children except in a few cases in ill this of ours oum with its universal ballot for tho citizens is a no letter waa tho her creation and men or v afi 19 w who 10 I 1 through ignorance or iiSe alley ency which ever you yon please imports its a which reduces men aud and women to drunkards gamblers lers and prostitutes are fit to live only in iii the th social act al liall hall which thuy they create yours for justice tw all 0 IZ 1 parsons 0 |