Show f Patent Medicines and 1 Brigham City last of the Utah Inde-t a prominent business is taken the and in which it was jut said he do not and on the prohibition id for that reason he ik he would take the his subscription ex-well aware that a few subscribers state wide prole we lost a few subscription list ly increased till today y have the largest i list of any weekly in Utah is only Ii We would not be advocated a thing believe We do not Me wide believe that any state prohibit that government of United K the ratio of or balers in a state for legislative temper-Prohibition is a ota was admitted in- of ates with state y n her statute I day North Da-one liquor her Wed prohibition tb licensed to the license of Sensed and liquor the dealers per capita of any other Kansas is called a prohibition state because she has had wide prohibition for more than quarter of a century but with her great claims for Uncle Sam licences liquor dealers to sell grog within her If other and older states have tried prohibition and still have more liquor dealers per ta than Utah we do not want that kind of prohibition WHAT THE SALOON We admit all the evils that the saloon is guilty of and any state would be yes a hundred times' better off if their drunkards would control their Let Us All Be T We will all readily admit that we no right to prohibit one man from selling another coffee although the purchaser takes the coffee home and gives it to his children and through the excessive coffee drinking those children are sick and and if they survive the coffee drug they will grow up sickly dyspeptics and chronic Coffee Versus We also know that if two individuals start out in one drinking two or three-or twenty glasses of beer in a day and the other takes the same amount of coffee that the beer drinker will be the healthier and the better If we have no right to prohibit a person from or drinking we have no right cannot sell or to say that he drink When an individual over indulges in anything and becomes a nuisance or a menace to the we have a perfect right to invoke the law and put him where he will not Because one man drinks beer or whiskey to excess and makes a fool of we have no right to say to another who either for for health or that he cannot have If so we are certainly interfering with his personal Our Prohibition friends will say you must not compare beer and whiskey with coffee because when a man goes to excess with beer or whiskey then he is a danger and a menace to but with coffee he is we grant that but shall we deny any one the right to buy or sell gun either for profit or pleasure because some who buy such explosives are careless and maim or annoy their neigh-I we have no under our constitution or moral to prohibit a person from buying or selling that which will not injure or his neighbor when properly Because one man is imprudent and reckless in driving automobile or a team of horses and rims down and kills we have right prohibit the sale and use of horses and But we do have the right to make laws regulating them and to punish Prohibition Many of the prohibition papers are filled with patent medicine advertisements and baby soothing most of which contain vile drugs when given to and adults will create a greater appetite or thirst for strong drink than ten times the same amount of or whiskey In many of the patent medicines contain so much alcohol that the government demands a revenue license they can be The mother who is continually doping her children with patent medicines and drugs and then fighting for is as inconsistent as a preacher talking temperance with a whiskey Patent medicine pool rooms and the back room of cigar stores ruin per cent more boys than the Martha H. In a recent lecture Martha Cannon stated use of compounds of op ium by the physician today is not as extensive as it was twenty years or so even in my the as a is too free with the use of this The cause of the change in the use of this drug by the medical fraternity is being brought about by careful study of its physiological is not Tine who is to blame for the number of morphine fiends which we have The greatest part of this responsibility can be laid at the door of the patent medicine Cannon could have further stated that the use of cheap whiskey in making patent medicines and the other dope they use to tickle ine appetite and create a thirst for is the first great cause of drunkenness Boys do not loaf in licensed they are not allowed they get their first lessons in being allowed to congregate on street livery pool cigar and then appetites are created by the patent medicine dope they get at The Utah Independent has expressed itself many times on the prohibition If we are our columns are open foi our prohibition friends to answer us instead of the Write us letters for publication that show our readers and ourselves the best way to suppress |