Show ECHOES ATTACK MADE IE BY DY BLACK DLACK Mr Short Takes Up Cry Against Sunday Liquor Selling in tn Clubs Do You Think the City Officials Should Close tie the Saloons of or Salt Lake on Sunday and Allow tho Clubs to Remain Open asked Rev Re F B Short of or his congregation congregation tion at the First Methodist Church last night No Xo emphatically no It is true that the clubs are allowed special privileges privileges leges by law but only In so tar far as these th se privileges do not conflict with the law Wo Ve should be fair to the saloonkeeper as well as to the millionaire and I want to see no discrimination made If It I were a saloonkeeper I 1 would Join with others In the ame business and right fight out to a finish the question of ot closing the saloons and allowing the tho clubs to remain open I want It to be distinctly understood that I believe that it is better to close the tho saloons on Sunday and allow the clubs to remain open than to allow allo both to remain open but such a course is un unfair unfair fair and unjust It is true that the city officials have the right to close the sa saloons saloons loons and leave the clubs open They have hae also the legal right to close one saloon and allow all the others to run un unmolested unmolested molested but such a course shows in the tho administration of the law The Tho power granting the clubs licenses should compel them to observe the letter of the law Members embers of ot the clubs claim Immunity from Crom the law because their members are not seen In a drunken condition There are Just us as many aristocratic rum drink drinkers ers era as there are rum drinkers The only difference between them Is that the rich man can afford to hire a cab and be helped to his home I while the poor sot is the street to be picked up by a policeman I do not believe bellee In giving liberties to the rich denying them to the poor I am m In favor not only of oC closing the clubs but the tho drug stores The Tho man who sells a bottle of or whisky Is just as much guilty as the man who sells a glass of or whisky whisk If It the clubs and drug stores are areto areto to be allowed to remain open on Sunday Sunda I believe Chief Pitt should open every sa saloon saloon loon In Salt Lake I do not ask others to accept this view but in my mind it is 15 the only onh fair and Just one I believe In treating every man alike In the eyes of or the law |