Show We Are Taken to Task on Prohibition Occasionally we get a letter from a subscriber disagreeing with us on our stand on the prohibition and whenever such letters can be published they in the Occasionally we get a grouchy letter like the don't want your because it does not preach If such letters contained any argument we would publish The following communication is from a high churchman and a prominent business man in We give the part pertaining to prohibition the I do not agree with your stand upon the liquor but I am not going to discontinue your paper upon that I will with you that that so far as 1 am familiar with its does not absolutely Where is the law that Does the law against It is conceded that practically every law fails to prohibit Shall we then conclude that all laws shall be withdrawn You speak of regula tion being more effective than Are the regulation laws any more effectively enforced than the laws in favor of Is it not a fact that the class of generally at who are engaged in the liquor business are such that they for low have no regard any high regulation or In other they are a class who seek to evade any law that seeks to control in any way their despicable They have to be eternally no matter what laws are on the statute books affecting their There may be exceptions to the but I insist the above is true of class that as a After all the the liquor enforcement of law rests with the and if they are determined law can be the prohibition just as well enforced as the regulation he who engage in class of men liquor business is taken into it is not to be wondered at that any law that seeks to control that business is difficult to I will admit that you cannot by legislation only make men but your argument with regard to laws against liquor will apply with equal force against The law may not make the burglar an honest but it can punish him for his crimes and it can make his business unlawful ana on that ground alone induce others to remain out of it because of its being The legitimate offspring of the the is handicapped in any vocation in life and the father of that offspring ought to be banished from society by every and legitimate for he is a standing menace wherever he Our correspondent readily mits that it is a difficult matter to regulate or prohibit a liquor dealer from selling his There is only one sure and effective way to stop drunkenness and the liquor traffic and that is to commence anew with the boys and Enforce our present laws by keeping minors out of saloons pool and extend that law to cigar soft drink and livery whenever a boy is caught with cigarettes or in a drunken condition arrest find out who sold or gave him his liquor or if the boy will not send him to the reform punish the man who furnished punish him to the It may be a hard mat-matter to find the dealer but a drunken or cigarette boy is easy to be And if that boy has become so hardened that he will not divulge the name of the person who is trying to ruin let him be sent to the reform But very few people ever become drunkards if they do not begin before they are Heber's Four years ago had thirteen The people there got busy in the right They began to look after their boys and to depend on the of instead of statutory and by all working together for temperance the saloons were boycotted and left When a saloon gets no business it shuts its doors through the effective and proper there is not one saloon in Suppose that four years ago Heber had passed a prohibition law and forced those saloons out of Every ana saloon keeper would have considered that their personal liberty had been interfered and boot would have started and every and all methods would have been used to break the would all have become and whiskey mail orders would have resorted to beat the law petty quarrels and turmoil would have v. been Heber's Heber went at it in a safe and proper and she what Heber has done can be accomplished by other towns if they are in earnest and go to work in the proper Our correspondent also the saloon with which is not a fair Murder and burglary have always been because they are an injury and a menace to mankind in any way they may be It is only in the last few years that attention has been called to the evils of the Less than 60 years ago a baptist preacher in Illinois sold intoxicating his business became so good that he could not attend to it and he induced the Methodist preacher in his town to become his partner and their business In the beginning of good Mormons built distilleries and breweries and sold intoxicating liquors and it was not until the sale and use of alcohol was abused that the people began to oppose The selling or the consuming of intoxicants is not to be com- pared with theft or Every young and male and drinks intoxicating liquors and yet there are fewer drunkards among the Jews than any other race or The Jews are peaceable and law-abiding and because they know to use and not to abuse their God-given shall we compare them to There are hundreds of thousands of Gentiles and Mormons who used intoxicants in because a few make drunkards and fools of themselves by over shall we condemn the sensible |