Show i BEECHEK IS RIGHT f Te Rev Henry Ward Beecher peculiar pecu-liar and orthodox as he may be in religion re-ligion has the happy faculty of being Tight on most questions In another column will be found a telegram which he sent from his Peekskill home advis I ingthat the Republican State convention conven-tion of New York put in its platform V plank in favqr of dealing with the 1iSlUO problem through high license He bases his suggestion upon the declaration decla-ration that absolute prohibition is an absolute impossibility This is a terse and good way of putting it The fight against intemperance in New York has been long and determined j many able and good men have werked hard and faithfully to protect society from the v1 sof rum employing their ability and money without stint to that end but eirprogress has been slow and unsatisfactory That they have not accomplished more is because be-cause they undertook too much + and refused to profit by the experience of the w orld which has shown i that there cannot be prohibition whili men and women retain their natures and appetites and society continues ji what it is Generations of exertion in l the direction of controlling men and 4 their appetites having failed the effort should now be made as Beecher suggests j sug-gests to control the business This man be done for it is being done in many cities an 1 States as in Utah The liquor traffic has never been under better control and the evils of intemperance intemper-ance were never less than when high license was enforced We have in mind i a city of this Territory which for many years tried to enforce prohibition prohibi-tion in which undertaking it had all + i the authority that the statutes could I < give and its officers were energetic and a aI efficient yet in spite of all that could be done liquor was sold and there wash was-h not a little dnnkenniss Finally in I despair of overcoming the evil it was concluded to make the traffic pay the j cost to which society was put in trying to control the evil and a high license I was imposed The result was the opening i open-ing of a saloon or two but no more liquor was consumed than when there was prohibition only those who drank before imbibed now and drunkenness was no more common instead of the j sober people of the town taxing themselves them-selves to preserve order and protect themselves against the drunkards the licenses paid the expenses of controlling the traffic |