Show prohibition VS HIGH LICENSE are the temperance advocates Adro cates 5 sincere correspondence of the As the temperance movement has become one of a national interest it is in accordance with all rights and justice that not only the subject ef prohibition or temperance should be thoroughly investigated ant also the sincerity of its advocates the evil that results from the use of intoxicating beverage no one with a fair judgement jud gement and intelligence will doubt but the vital question is what is ahe best the plano jF prohibition acl some able jurists legislators inia great republic have spent flear aime on system with but very imperfect ceas laws have been agathen andea groub bait onal ja the some of the laws enacted in favor of prohibition have been of the most stringent character and have in aspmo cases been most vigilantly carried out but they have one sided and hence unjust and that law like any other of the same class does rot have the most desirable effect A great many will be ready to as wherein are the temperance laws annj and partial the answer is all the prohibition and temperance laws inflict punishment on the liquor seller but never on the buyer for an example take provo city where there is a penalty of ninety days imprisonment and a fine of ninety nine dollars and ninety eight cents for burnishing shing a person with so much as half an ounce of any kind of alcoholic beverage even in a case of sickness where halt an ounce or thereabouts would relieve a severe pain or even save a persons life while on the other hand any person is at liberty to purchase or a much as they wish to provided he or she does not become a public nuisance nui sence on the street hence the partially parti alty it is not known in the history of prohibition that a person has ever been punished for purchasing alcoholic beverages or for drinking any or all kinds of liquors if thoy did not become a public nui cens through anns intoxicated the prohibition laws ana ahw proal altion are nothing nor less than thi you have aper feci purchase and drink lust as much as you wish and we shall protect that button the other hand if you dispense so much as half an ounce of any kind of alcoholic beverage even though it be to save a persons life you have forfeited your property honor and personal liberty in this case it is plainly seen that the prohibition advocates are increased and one sided agthe aggressor is protected by laws the victim is hedl the purchaser of liquor always begs for the same the seller merely yields to his pleadings hence thia purchaser is the aggressor the seller a the cause of this one sided legislation is that the prohibition advocates vo cates wish to be at perfect liberty to purchase or drink any kind of liquor which is agreeable taste but at the same time are perfectly willing that those who administer their wants should forfeit property and personal liberty it is just as easy to pass a law which mates it an equal offense to purchase or to drink liquor as to self it if it is a crime to sell liquor it must be to beg it liquor can be used tor good and evil purposes and very often the man who sells it does not know any better than that it is toabe used strictly for medicinal purposes while he who buys it knows that he is going to use it for evil purposes it is an undeniable fact that if the T prohibition legislators were sincere if they really wish to prohibit the use of liquor they would lakeit equally punishable by law to purchase or to drink liquor as to sell it wo are told that high license is the step to prohibition untrue in prohibition towns those who are in favor of high license claim among other things in its favor that it is an impossibility to carry on prohibition and that high license is the only remedy in the first jalace they will explain how much benefit lacis for a city to receive so many thousands of dollars annually and there will bojonny a few men that will be able to carry on the business and we shall do our best to protect those who take out the license the anole and simple matter is that those high license advocates are willing to sell the whole world to ruin if the price paid agrees with their ness those who worship have no regard far principles cam promise for the debauchery of their wives the seduction of their daughters the ruin of their sons and the making of pauper generally if it is a anine to sell liquor high license does not make it a virtue high license is nothing more nor less than a bribe he that is willing to wanta to at of the peoples representatives agree to this if the them as large a portion of the booty as is suitable reed officers are on the alert to protect those high int beir rights to destroy the prosperity of the society which they besides all this ahe prohibition advocates what they do hot nd that they are not willing ta have the same aright a |