Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-05 | Page 4 | The Common-Sense View

THE COMMONSENSE VIEW Here Is a dispatch from Montgomery Ala With a shortage of almost staring the state In the face and with the executive authorized under the law to borrow only In such emer emergencies emergencies emergencies Governor B B Comer is la fairly up against the real thing in loss of revenue by the prohibition laws The appropriation made in the regu regular regular regular lar session of the legislature in 1007 1907 did not take Into account the general pro prohibition prohibition prohibition law enacted at the special session ses session session sion of the same year which became effective on the first of ot the present year As a result the strong box has gone so empty that must be had to tide over the month of November with perhaps representing the deficit that must come along by bf the end of the year ear That is one thing that cannot be ignored ig ignored ignored nored The expenses of state maintaining main maintaining maintaining will wUl have to be met The work of the state will have to go on It Is la an obligation which cannot be evaded At the same time the people who I voted prohibition in Alabama are con constantly constantly I clamoring that the law Is not note effective e Liquor comes In from other states and there is more of the offen offensive offensive offensive sive phase of drinking than there has ever been in the past They have no money to pay for regu regulation regulation regulation lation and none with which to employ officers to detect offenders or punish them when caught It would seem the commonsense plan to grant a license and exact enough of revenue to pay for the regulation at least This until such time as the work of temperance so certainly advancing shall have won all manhood to the cause of abstinence