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Show DRYS" BUMPED '" : BY THE MAYOR Ogdens Chief Executive Object to Misrepresentations' andjiBl'ttyj .f- theiWriter of ihe "Dry" Column and Demaads a Fair I " r '' " -' Deal and Truthful Statements. ' '"" I t i ii - , i To the writer of Better Ogden column; col-umn; Sir; I have "been surprised, as well as paiped, to note tho unfairness of your columns In relation to myaolf-aud myaolf-aud my official uction in, connection with tho recent "liquor ordinauco. Sometime ago you had an article statin? that the liquor ordinance I sent to the council was the whiskey men's ordinance, intimating that the liquor dealers had prepared this ordinance ord-inance for me 1 requested you to make a correction of that in your column. You failed to do so and I made a correction In the editorial columns col-umns of oir papers. In thl3 morning's Examiner, and 1 presume In this evening's Slnn'Iard. you have an article in your colum" headed, "The 'N'lgger' Shows Its 'Head i In tho Now Liquor Ordinance," which nrtlclo Indicates that the writer Is Intentionally mifcquoMng and misrepresenting misrep-resenting the new liquor ordinance, or is woefully ignorant of tho facts I have becngpnorous to tho "dry" committee com-mittee In throwing tho columns of the Evening Standard and Examiner onen to your campnlgn committee, and it as little as vom coul i grant, to give fair treatment In return. In your article you say, "That the ordinance originally presented b the mayor provided that after the violation viola-tion of the liquor ordinance, the license li-cense shall be revoked and should not again be re Issued " So far your statement Is correct. Then you continue con-tinue and say. "Tho present ordinance ordin-ance kills that portion of tho ordinance ordin-ance entlroly by providing thnt the license li-cense shall not be reissued for a period per-iod of thirty days ' ' Now this latter statement Is positively false, as tha ordinance as passed "by tho City Council Coun-cil and signed by me, does not say anything of tho kind. It does, however, how-ever, say that when a saloon license hns been revoked It shall not afaln bo issued to the holder of the license and that not for thirty days shall a license be granted to any other person per-son in the same building. It was my Intention to abBtain from taking part In this campaign. If possible, pos-sible, and to allow the "drys1 and "wets" In their respective department? to fight out this battle. But the writer of your column evidently did not favo-the favo-the new ordinance, which I presented, as he does not logo an opportunity to unjustly criticise me or my action In relation thereto. It Is truo, as jou state, that I alone am responsible for tho presentation to the council of tho present ordinance ordin-ance Xo one cIpo Is responsible for It, and while I dl-l not tyj owrite It. I did dictate It You aro also right In .tatln' that the ordinance was intended in-tended as a compromise. That Is what I Intended it to be. Personally, I would rather see prohibition In Ogden If It could be enforced, than to soo the midnight or all-night saloon, but I would rather soe tho saloons closed at 9 o'clock than to have such prohibition prohi-bition as Ogdon would have If It voted vot-ed "dry" on June 27th. Under the new stato law, the manufacturer and wholesaler of liquors will continue to -fell whiskey and beer to anyono who wants It in Ogden. oven If. the people of Ogdon should vote drv That is not prohibition. I believe It -would bo a worse evil than even a midnight saloon sa-loon I cannot understand what the legislature was thlnklntr of when ! of fered Ogden the privilege of voting "dry" and then Inserted this section, which, remember, Is part of the new state liquor law, and reads as follows fol-lows : "Sec. 4 None of the provisions (of the new stale liquor law) of this act shall bo construed as prohibiting, or Intendod to prohibit, the manufacture of Intoxicating liquors or the disposal thereof at wholesale at the place where manufactured and any manufacturer manufac-turer thereof shall have the right to manufacture and dlsposo of the same at wholesale at the placo where manufactured manu-factured hv obtaining a llcenso therefor there-for aud by complying with tho other provisions of this act and of all other laws of thlB state relating to the manufacture man-ufacture of intoxicating liquors and tho sale thereof at wholesale, notwithstanding notwith-standing tho result of any election provided pro-vided for in tliis act In a.n votlne- unit crealod hereunder, provided, that no license shall be issued to any manufacturer manu-facturer who was not legally engaged In the manufacture of Intoxicating liquor li-quor at the time of holding any election elec-tion at which a majority of the votors oto 'against sale' " A year agd. If my recollection serves me right, tho eminent chnlrman of our committee, Aiostle D. O. Mc-Kny Mc-Kny and tho Bettermont league committee com-mittee woro willing to compromise tho Ogden liquor fight by accepting the nine-hour closing law. You ask why does tho council now accept this ordinance or-dinance when It refused to do so one year ago, when your committee was satisfied with It. My answer Is tht through the efforts of tho Ocdon Betterment Bet-terment league n pirblic sentiment has been created which has forced tho City Council to act. Now I want to aBk you and your committee the question. ques-tion. Why do you refuse this 9-hou'r and strict saloon regulation when you were willing to accept this same con-dlton con-dlton a year apo' "Lot us 'Ijo fafj about this matter. ' r As Mayor or the city 1 havo a right ' to make an effort to get tho vory best possible for tho people of Ogden But I hao not changed my opinion or Ideas One year ago when yoyr committee com-mittee was willing to compromise on 9 o'clock I demanded 7 o'clock and Samuel Browning, President of the City Council, Horace Poery and myBolf were the only three who voted for the 7 o'clock proposition. ! still favor 7 o clock, but with all (ho good work tho Ogden Bettermont leaguo has done. It has not et created a public sentiment sufficient to Induce the City Council to pass the 7 o'clock closing law, and I am fully convinced that if the writer of the Bolter Ogden column will recognize the good of thoso who are laboring for bettor Ogdon, but do not quite agree with the drastic measures meas-ures proposed by the Betterment league, ho will do more for real temperance tem-perance work lhan to try to placo them In a falso light. The section of tho present ordinance, ordin-ance, which your writer has mlsrep-i resented, Is Section 502x15. published In Thursday morning's Examiner nnd Thursday evonlng's ,StaDdard, Anybody Any-body can read It and convince himself You may rest assured that It Is my policy while I am Mavor of Ogdon, to do that which I believe Is for the best interests of the whole people, aqd when I say that. 1 mean that the new ordinance just adopted by tho City Council will do more for the cause of temncrancc than e.oulJ possibly he done If the city votes drv linden that miserable Jumbjo called the new state liquor law, which If 0?den voles dry on June 27th next would close the saloon sa-loon hut permit and authorize the manufacturer and the -wholesale liquor li-quor dealer to sell liquor to every person per-son and into evorj home In Ogden. Thai Is not prohibition and would be worse than oven tho all-night saloon Just watch, our new 9 o'clock closing law. WILLIAM GLASMANN, Mayor. |