Show I 1 A neighbor oil the Dol dominant illint question editor being a constant reader of 0 tb s en I 1 1 r i see that your city council is is lul laboring oring with tile the whiskey question and I 1 see eee there is ia a difference of opinion na As to the best mode moda of dealing with it being baing a near neighbor and interested iu in the sub subject ti act since since all our cities have hava to deal W with it after reading the lengthy communication in in your columns over the signature of arbitrator a few ideas have hava suggested themselves PS to lily iny mind ind which 1 I have written but with no avish wish to enter into a controversy with alie writer who seems to bo be very candid candi t 1 it ff tin the doctrine that the majority is wrong N ron bo be true tru then the seven cou councillors councilors counci collors lors w who voted for tile the granting of the petition for saloons were wrong for they were ere decidedly ill in the majority rna jonty being seven to three again if the saloon men who vilio you pay signed the tha petition are making junking makin junkin in lucli rt V vast oat fortunes under unde r prohibition in selling L aling iree whiskey it is a ver very evident that they are satisfied t that b a ty wit with t the lie lie anae law a ly they h can pay ta the I 1 e I 1 license 1 c anti e and make mo more re money ne y t than h an t they h c y are now making ma king wh which mom h means et in a that tha t t they h e Y can sell ell now that much more whiskey p aich h ic of ourse course c makes that much more drunkenness r and it if this increase of drunkenness drunken noti I 1 is attended with a corresponding increase of expense to the city to the amount of the where is i there ther any benefit financially 7 and if it does doa not take it quite all will the justify the increase increase of immorality and 1 gain again 1 tile the idea that the traffic should be 1 licensed i so BO that the city would have tho the means to fight the enemy is ia very singular to enter into a financial a arrangement men 1 with the enemy to get means to i light fight that same enemy who makes ills his money by the privilege he gets from the tha ity city v this would bo be dudling things thing hugely I 1 among enlightened nations nation who tire are oil tupp opposed oBed to be governed by the wisest tile men n they have when they go to war they the enemy blockade his ports and cut off all traffic and th thereby er cripple him not even allowing neutra neutral lower howera to tra trade dewith with hit him 1 disel dissipation pation 13 11 a great lever ever in ilia b hands tin ds ot f I 1 the be enemy of all righteousness to destroy the children both in body and soul it is an artful enemy its own victims ti advocate its cause it it invades our cities marching in a solid line of battle to destroy the city fathers see the enemy ende inside insl de the corporation its right wid wing g is 1 a composed of whiskey peddlers in various v ar i ous guises guise a the left w m ing is made up of if whiskey hiskey W drinkers A council of war 1 is beld and measures of defense and attack are discussed some of the council are in favor of attacking the whole line at once with prohibition another intelligent portion of the council think it would not be visa it might be a failure and tho the city would be worsted as aa it did not have guns enough to attack the v whole hole line and there aro are no funds to purchase additional arms they think it would be a better plan to make a kind of trea treaty t w with th the right wing of the enemy em Y who carry the military money cheat cile by means of a lic ensti law tor for which they th will give us a large abarge sum of money we then can buy larger larf er guns nd A d can give civo the left wing win I 1 ghail hall columbia um bla the right wing of course accepts is the proposition hands over the luer lucre and marches into the citadel and takes take possession of the city I 1 think the first proposition is is the most statesmen like and will have the best beat moral effect let the th city authorities marshall marshal their forces and charge the right wing ving 0 of I 1 the enemy front and rear and let lat the community lack back them up financially and with all their moral force finally it w will ill b be e vanquished i and ana the I 1 sit left wing w will ill surrender tur render anae ul r and can bo be managed ilia nailed by moral forces alone it need not take aake seven years to do this and it is not necessary to create ft a very heavy indebtedness a united effort is is all that la IB feces eary ry but as long as the forces are ar di bided vided but little can be done dona and the enemy will remain and prosper BATTLE dec eth 1880 |