Show HOOSIER TEMPERANCE IDEA By B way of adding to the general in interest int terest t tet r est t in the temperance crusade now agitating the Utah Republicans The Herald Herad reprints a special dispatch from froman an nn eastern newspaper which sets forth trio the t e views of an Indiana state tate senator upon the question Here is the dispatch Indianapolis md Feb 14 HA A state hos hospital pital l for dipsomaniacs drug users etc i will be suggested In a bill which will be offered by b Senator Bowser of Chesterton F on an early roll call Th senator be believes Heves that the duty dut of curing drunkards properly rests upon the saloonkeepers whose profits depend upon men who drink and that therefore the state should put the saloonkeeper into the business of Laming earning money to undo the damage he does In other words WONS he believes that Indiana should have a high license for liquor dealers and that a considerable portion of every cery license fee tee paid should of right go to the support of ot such an in institution Institution Institution as he lIe proposes in this bill Senator Bowser is firm In the belief that drunkenness after a certain time is a disease and should be treated as a dis tasa ase and the money spent In punishment of a drunkard after he lIe reaches a certain stage In his career is money worse than wasted He lie would desire very ery much to see the saloon regula regulation regulation tion flon bill now pending in the senate so amended that funds would be derived for such an institution as he proposes Senator Bowser divides men Into three classes the total abstainer the moderate drinker and the drunkard There would he h e a fourth class the reformed drunkards drunkard It has been his experience that a reformed drunkard s usually the greatest of tem tern advocates Lu Tho senator believes tOOt that drunkards E influence Influence influence thus reformed would exert a great aVid and ence in the interest of temperance after their reformation would b be a mighty mIght He Influence in educating the people believes that prohibition has Its beneficial effects but that drinking will wilt continue more or less as long lon as ail men desire to p drink It Is his belief beliet therefore that the surest and sanest solution of the best i problem would be to make the saloonkeeper whole undo the harm he does and I would at the same time be In a position business a class clus against his hl setting up f of temperance workers In Inthe Intoe inthe of or most earnest the toe reformed drunkards The Utah legislature has various pro prohibition ro and local ocal option bills bUls before It none of which will be acted upon in ac acwith with the s of the cru iier itt con contact t act wi wiil wAi the be brewers must be carried c out though tOe heavens fall It may Interest the legislators to toI know I ow that other great minds are study studying stud 4 ing lug the great question of how not to do doit doIt doit it The Indiana senators proposition is offered in on an iu humble spirit as food tood for I reflection As The Herald has frequently remarked re remarked remarked marked it favor prohibition It ItIs ItIS itta Is ta a matter of regret however that the 1 issue should Sh uld lUd have been raised for tor the thet thed double d ube purpose of pulling the legs of t the brewers and liquor dealers and re reelecting electing Reed Beed Smoot to the United U States seriate 1 |