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Show iUi NEWS SUPPORTS GOVERNOR. Tho amendment to tho liquor bill placing tho power to grant licenses In cities of tho first and second class in tho hands of tho district courts received re-ceived tho unqualified and extraordinary extraordin-ary endorsement of tho Descret News Saturday evening. Under tho heading "Pass that Amendment' tho Nows says: "Pass that Amendment." "Tho proposed- amoudment to tho liquor bill giving tliu district Judges the power to grant (iconses Is still under consideration, spill the opinions nro divided as to its merits. "llltheito the "Nows" has reiralned from expressing any opinion on that amendment, either pro" or con, except ex-cept to point out tho necessity or a careful consideration becnusu of tho danger of tliu saloon element reaching out after tho courts. I'erhaps wo hae been Inclined to overestimate that danger. "The question now being before our legislators, ami tho time for consld-eintlon consld-eintlon and action being extremely short, wo may bo excused for referring to It again for tho purpose of stating as cleaily ns possible that If tho et-fects et-fects of the amoudment will be, as Is almost certain, to tako tho saloon out of politics, wo heartily commend and urge Its adoption. Simiothlng must bo done to rescue communities from tho clutches ot tho saloon. "In this City, as everybody knows wo huvo by sad experience learned what tho power or that institution Is. Wo have-had tho city Hooded with gamblers, crooks, dealers In "white slaves," and criminals of every do-sttlptlon. do-sttlptlon. Men have lieen placed in office of-fice who havo publicly boasted that they would not eufqrco tho law nnd purify tho moral atmosphere of tho community. Monoy has been spout In order to place bucIi men In otflco. Such conditions prevail, more or loss, ovoryuhcro where tho saloon dominates domin-ates local politics. Now It this can bo remedied by depriving city councils and county commissioners ot tho power pow-er to grant licenses, which Is so easily eas-ily abused, and vesting It In tho courts, by nil means let his bo dono. "And we bellovo tho saloons would not uusily reach tho Judges, even though thoy should endeavor to do so Tho Judiciary of tho United States has I proved Itself remarkably Independent of corrupting Influences and can bo snfely trusted with tho interests of tho people, nnd It there shdula prove to bo exceptions these would rlcrely confirm the rule." ..It will bo remembered 'th'at this amendment was proposed by tho" Governor, and ho has wrestled with tho legislature for its adoption Jot sev-""U sev-""U dnys. It was bitterly oppoBeo In tho senate by James W. Fu'hk Of Cache County and by Olscn or San I'oto county, both Democrats, but was successfully passed over their opposition. |