Show r A DRUNKEN CHUlSIHAS J Ii Whoever wag on East Templo OJ street on Monday and sober enough to observe what was going on can 1 l understand why Salt Lake is inter a sated in putting down to far as possible l S pos-sible the traffic in liquor Even Chief Justice Hunter had he wit t r r neared the spectacle might have Dome to the conclusion that the indiscriminate in-discriminate end unrestricted sale of whiskey was something that ought t not to be encouraged and protected by farfetched decisions from the I judicial bench The sights were simply 1 r sim-ply 1 shocking and forced one to ask whither we are drifting when euch things can occur Men were g J drunken reeling along the streets and r I idling in the gutters The saloons Were literely crowded by men bleareyed and flushed of face staggering about amid fOUl oaths and E an atmosphere reeking with theN the-N fumes of spirits But this was not s the worst feature of the Christmns carousal Dozens of young men and l boy between sixteen and twenty I year of age showed evidence of hrd I t drinkiuj while not a few of them were in a stite of disgusting and beastly intoxication Some of the 9U lade fell as they tried to walk and I others were steadied and supported to their homes sad pictures for the eyes of mothers and fathers and i sisters to rest upon We do not believe i be-lieve the truth is i stretched in saying there was more drunkenness drunken-ness in Ball Lake on Monday J than on any other day of its history his-tory A gentleman who passed along i the main street between 9 and 10 r t oclock at night wondered where all the people were who had crowded the h It walks during the day and early evening r i even-ing tbe street being almost deserted y The truth was a large percentage of i t them had been carried or had reeled 1 themselves out of sight and were too I drunk vo reappear The saloons i dealt t i out free drinks during a portion of 1 the day and to that circumstance z may be attributed a large share of 4 She drunkenne3 especially was the drunkenness of the boys chargeable charge-able to the compliments of the seasonu which saloon men PI EO bountifully bestowed upon those who presented themselves at the bar How many drunkards were made on Christmas Day it would bet be-t hard to tell but it is safe to say the t 1 needs of intemperance were sown in the appetites of many young men t who will duringtheir after lives haves occasion to bitterlycuree the th y and f the hour which found them at a bar I quaffing frea whisky l We cannot believe that a saloonkeeper i If saloon-keeper delight in making drunkards that he takes pleasure in starting a boy on the downward course to physical I phys-ical moral and intellectual destruction destruc-tion but a few such days as Monday was with its trains of intoxicated I I lads would soon convince a person that some saloonkeepers at least were not above deliberately plotting fi the destruction of man It would not i take many each drunken festivals to I so arouse indignant and outraged 1 fathers as to cause them to madly i i I assail and demolish every saloon in I town no matter what protection to i I the liquor business the laws might I It t guarantee or the courts offer If saloon keepers are desirous of treating i treat-ing their patrons on Christmas or 1 any other day that is a matter be m r r t r r tr I 3 Y i D F s I t ra tweon them and their patrons but when it cornea to distributing liquor indiscriminately and pouring whisky down the throats of boys who know no better than to think it is smart to get drunk the case is very different In this case it looks as if something more than passing compliments were intiended It is hoped that hereafter the free drinks will be confined to men arid men who can drink without getting drunk It is further hoped that the appearance hereafter ot drunken boy will be followed by an inquiry as to the place wherethey obtained the liquor I and the vigorous prosecution of the saloonkeeper who gave or sold it to them It will be seen by reference to the account published elsewhere of this proceedings in the City Council last evening that body was a witness to or has been informed of thecondi tion of things on Monday and as a consequence it declared the sense of the Council to be that the mayor by proclamation order the closing ol saloons on Monday next If there cannot be holidays without East Temple street getting blind drunk we would say make holidays and proclamations to close the saloons run together hereafter |