Show LIBERAL MISRULE IN SALT LAKE CITY another law and order meeting was hold held and largely attended at the first methodist church january 12 the audience wits WAS composed almost entirely of liberals it having been called as it liberal meeting county clerk allen alien was elected chair chairman maff and call log ipg the meeting to order lie he said that hey had bad met as liberals to discuss gaiters which were of great import bace DO to the city they believed in the of the law and in upholding holdin tb the officials in their work there tad had been a great influx of capi tal anti and population of late and some bad characters bad been attracted hither they must now dow be driven out atit he believe in criticizing the liberal government because it would put a weapon in the hands of the enemy in regard to the saloons gambling hells bells and houses house of ill III fame he be would say aay that he was waa glad steps were being taken to stamp out the evils he was pleased to say that the saloons were also now closed on sunday and he knew that all would be glad of it J B bowdle was next introduced and said the city council had bad power to license regulate and tax the sale of liquor within the limits of the city on the judicious use of this power depended the weal or woe of the city yet vet it was claimed that the council was a mere kaiue and whenever a man appear appeared edDi afore the council conformed to the preliminaries and put up up liis lie bond the council must give him his lic license enEe no matter if lie he was a graduate of sing sing and had kept disorderly houses elsewhere A short time ago a man aban demanded a license for a saloon under the franklin avenue theatre ho he demanded it as a cold legal proposition and having been denied it threatened to appeal to the supreme court it was all well enough to talk about cold legal propositions but there was another element which entered into the case and that was tile the public good the public good did not demand it I 1 in a a recent california ease case of its nature justice field said the state had the right to stamp out the saloon business and no citizen had an inherent right to retail liquor this was the way the cold legal right was met in california this was a new question here and it was a very important one for if any man who wanted it obtain a license this city would become tile the paradise of thugs and crooks salt lake was looked upon u on as one of the most prosperous cities in the entire country rhe crooks were not wanted here and tie he was with wilh the city authorities in all their efforts to drive thew these parasites away these people followed in tile the trucks tracks of prosperity but they did not bring it any more than the buzzard brought spring if these crooks brought prosperity ity then new york philadelphia pittsburg and salt bait lake might contribute a few of them to wichita and the old played out town might be rejuvenated Inthis in this matter he thought it was more blessed to give than to receive he wanted to see a policy adopted which would make short work of this element mr dolliver was next introduced by mr allen mr dolliver spoke in substance as follows there wire borne business meu men here it was said who were afraid that the driving butof the lawless element would be a bad thing for the town in a business way he thought those men should be put ou on exhibit exhibition Jon in the freak museum about to be started he knew something about prohibition for lie had lived many years in the prohibition state of iowa and in spite of the malicious 3 representations misrepresentations m is of the press prohibition was a success there while tile the jails were empty and the prosecuting attorneys aud and sherlf fa had found their occupations gone the treasury was full of money a state house had bad been built aud and iowa had taken her ber place in the front rank of states he was unalterably opposed to the saloon and be did not think the business in create teresta ot of tho city would auffert at all if they were all closed he did not consider this in ODY any sense a meeting of any political party otherwise be would take no part in it the rev mr libby offered the following resolution whereas au an application has been made to the su supreme preme court for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the city council to grant a license to certain parties to open a saloon in the basement of the variety theatre on franklin avenue therefore resolved that we request the mayor and city attorney to employ assistant counsel in defense of the aca ac tion of the city council and in opposition to the granting of said mandamus by the supreme court said assistant to be free of cost to the city and that john T lynch george wanless and prof millspaugh be a committee to present our request and if granted to secure said assistant stant counsel the resolution was adopted na M r wanless then followed with another set of resolutions they are as aa follow follo wt whereas tile the applicants for up license to 0 open in a saloon in the b basement of the variety variety theatre on franklin avenue have twice leen been refused such license by the city council and I whereas we are informed and be lieve said applicants in open violation of law and in defiance of the city ty authorities authority auth immediately opened sald said saloon and have continued their business to tile alie present tinie lime thereby showing allowing their lawles lawlessness and unfitness to have a license anywhere in the city therefore be it resolved first that we the citizens of salt lake city in mass meeting assembled do must most earnestly re the city marshal to enforce the city ordinance against the sale of intoxicating liquors without license and to close said saloon at once and keep it closed while the lie mandamus is pending and until it is duly licensed according to law and we pledge him our earnest support in tile tho performance of this and other duties 57 these resolutions were the cause of much warm warin and animated discussion major bradley brad ley was waa opposed to the resolution he did not see thy sense of adopting a lot of polite resolutions asking public to do their plain duty particularly us as the matter was pending in the courts he thought tile the way to deal w with ith who did not perform their duty was to wait until the next election and then sweep them out of themay the way he moved that the resolutions be laid on oil the table tile tho motion was lost by a close vote some amend amendments ments were then ed and this brought mr libby to his bis feet he said that these theatre people were a lawlees selas was shown by the fact that they commenced selling rum after their license was refus td d I 1 f the meeting was afraid to say what it believed then they had better quit and go homo home rev mr carr was in favor of strong resolutions it seemed that the law was being violated and the marow was winking at it these things were incriminating tho ihu marshal mars lial of alac aalt lake city they ought tv tu make ili him m feel they were ashamed of him mr Wanless said that on the night of the election when a temperance meeting was held in this very build building Dg they were in better condition than they were tonight since then the men they had elected had been false to every pledge they had made every promise r 0 m too they made had bad been shamefully fu i 1 y violated and it will fo forever rever brand the liberal party with everlasting shame and contempt mr wanless continued in this strain for a considerable length of timesaving time saying that further delay was dangerous and that this meeting had bad been called to protest against the continuation of such infamous and glaring outrages the law must be vigorously enforced at all hazards he moved the adoption of the resolutions the motion was carried the resolutions were finally adopted after which the meeting adjourned jour ned |