Show AGUN having glanced over the tha manuscript ot of the last half of arbi orators tra tors communication thero were some important points in liis bli argei arn mont which were overlooked om looked making it necessary Dec essary to give civo this wearisome subject milli another airing we have endeavored end avord throughout the discus sion aion i to maintain as reasonable a moderation as the gravity of the subject and the earnest interest we have felt in the possible esmao would por per mit but in consideration of 0 tho the harsh manner in which our cows corres pendent has in several instances a al to the petitioners petition ers impugn ing their motives and all but charging them I 1 indirectly with tile tho most peril ailious hypocrisy hy wo we shall be compell ed cj in this thin reply to employ it indans nf argument more plain boll direct ills his opening proposition is that our city is already financially involved it 11 this is truo trao then the city officers who are presumably responsible for the situation would better remedy it forthwith again ahe present years taxes if all collected and appropriated for that purpose would barely cancel existing obligations obligation 8 obliga tlona created mainly by an honest of ef tort fort on the tha part of our city fathers to estorco tho the prohibitory ordinance this is a misstatement whatever ob ligat libations ions the city may lie ho a under older I 1 hey were not mainly created as alleged tho the question must bo be submitted to the people whether thorn there dball be an additional tax levied for the pur par pose of prohibition 11 there ia no occasion for tiny any anh proceeding it if additional dit ional is ia wanted thecile the city authorities have ample authority to raise the taxes to the full fall extent of the charter charier without troubling the people fit at all with the mf ml atter itter the rho original draft of the ha romon trance against the augg i ns petition ion contained a clause in t r tit t the be council if they deemed it necessary to amess and collect a tax to aid lu in the work of 0 pro prohibition ibitson ibi tion but the who desired to protect their lat fathers bers husbands brothers und and sons from the tha terrible curse of intoxication rejected the clause and struck it out thus by a stroke of the pen en the very lifts lian and vit vitality of 11 alitt the Zon document ment hero here was an ex ibi tion of that moral sentiment about which so much has been beau said this is ia another false in the original draft of the petition re berred to there was such a clause as he be described but it was vies stricken out cut by those HOBO who formulated the petition before it was submitted to the public tor for approval and that so BO thoroughly that no one save gave thoo who saw it before the erasure was mada mado could have possibly known what it ib was except by being boin told no as doubtless arbitrator himself was i it was not therefore there fora an exhibition 0 of f that moral sentiment about which so much has haa boon baon said the idea of getting up tho petition 1 in tho the first place war waa conceived by 11 row few influx estial the work of draft ing it was waa od to una otio of 0 their on oember niber the petition was drawn up aud and submitted to the few gentlemen referred to who on oil reading the clauad concerning which arbitrator finds occasion to make inake so GO much unjust comment nuan iboa ly agreed that it was unnecessary for the reason it if for no other that the council already possessed the right to raino by tax stion at least a limited amount i of funds with which to enforce the th city ordinances the city charter section 17 empowers the council to annual ly levy lery and collect taxes on the as essed value of all property in the city made taxable by the laws of the territory tor for the following named purposes to wit not to exceed five mills mille on the dollar for contin contingent garit ex benses not to exceed five mills on tie dollar to open improve and keep in repair the streets of the th a city this thia year a tax only of three mills on the dollar has been levied for contingent expenses although ill abu council had the right to levy a tax of live mill 3 as seen by the quoted section of 0 the c 00 ai therefore was lB loyb jil yb jat ht clause being ineer tod in tile petition BI t one of the tha gentlemen who assisted iu in formulating the petition was nn an attorney and the fact of his favori favoring Dg ilia striking out of the clause lad wight with the rest it is therefore not nol fair for ar bi to presume that they the people bra are dot cot i in it favor of increased taxation to aid tali ho council in ia the work the people require at hands it is a affair to entertain any such presumption until the people expressed themselves as aa opposed to increased taxation taxa tiou it is highly probable that they did not dot intelli intelligently gettly andor tana the situation as it exita with re IB forene to the ailys celii liu ilu ancial condi tion whether they did or 0 did t r ot tuch such facts acla have no BO beating bearing in in the argument sinco since their petition was one in which the question of finance did not enter it was dimply saloons or 1 prohibition F leaving all accidents of finance to be ba provided by those thosa duly authorized to do so then than in the iho light of all iho be facts jl it would seem that the are cully at least in favor of A 10 and ad IM are no noi ia lavor off hoss whis silt sell it this conel conclusion aaion haing being based wholly upon the premises which wo have just jast shown to bo be utterly false must of necessity lie be falso in the tha same do gree and the ali tiame biame applies likewise I 1 to several other of 0 arbitrators con elisions elusions elu clu which follow fallow in ill thia is line indeed very little remains remaina in his bia article that does not refer back for support to that erroa coni i ath proposition namely that tho the deliberately decline to vote any money or to instruct the council to increase the taxes for the purpose 0 f supplying thu the necessary faunl 0 to enforce the ordinance and ami now dow iu in conclusion we call attention once more to a fact which must or sheild bi patent to every bodame refer red r to the peace and safety of our streets in comparison with times when the city riving giving way to the demands of whiskey vendors vendora and whiskey grafi granted tod licenses for the retailing of intoxicating iddon cating drinks dr inki every young woman who lived in provo ten ion to twelve years ago we will guarantee has baa seeni seen and heard beard things which if she eho possesses tiny any of the elements of true modesty modest she has never to bunted anil and will never recount men in in all stages of maudlin intoxication were wera to be seen loen a at t any hour of the day or night in the locality especially where whiskey altey reigned committing every violation vio lalion of decency and good order of ct wl which 11 eb insanity is ia capable the howl bowl of the street brawler was as common as the th croaking croak inK of troas scarcely a day passed that did not record the arrest and investigation of from one to a half dozen human beings bestialized by the boll supplying BUp plying drug of which the city was waa the virtual dispenser the thoroughfare which witnessed th the e evils just enumerated is to day an quiet slid and secure from such auch am 6 of the public peace as the most me ee walks of the city can any man in the face of such evidence con contend tend anikst moral superiority I 1 0 of f the be present system with all its alade do foot and exterior impediments over the system of licensed saloons Balo orn t |