Show PROHIBITION I tOne 1 ti One of the Tribunes Most Recent Lies Corrected SALT LAKE CITY April 31885 To the Editor of THE HERALD A recent issue of the Salt Lake Trib 1ine contained a local article headed Prohibition in which the following occurs ThejCity government is the creature and slave of the Priesthood it has the power to prohibit the sale of liquor here and if it does not now proceed to do it let the News forever hold its peace and the servants of God be silenced I do not pretend to have intently watched the proceedings of past Legislatures Legis-latures nor to be particularly well informed formed in such matters anyhow but in a sojourn of more than ten year amid the hills and vales of Mormon dom I have always understood that Sale Lake City had not the chartered right to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors That past administrations of municipal government have striven to secure this right from the Legislature Legisla-ture I am thoroughly aware that past Legislatures have been eager to grant prohibition to Salt Lake City I i n willing will-ing to avow but that any Governor of the Territory in the past decade has been enough of a temperance advocate or I may add sufficiently sober during he final days of the sessions to which times important bills are usually deferred ferred to approve such a measure I am distressingly uncertain Can you without much trouble inform your readers when the power to pro hibit the sale of liquor here was vested in the city and which Governor it was that approved the act Dont say it was Eli or your readers might refuse to believe you SUBSCRIBER Our correspondent unwittingly places us in an attitude of antagonism to our esteemed morning contemporary I When it is realized how seldom we are called upon to contradict an assertion of the Tribune the extreme delicacy qf ourpresent position becomes the more obvious Yet unfeeling as it may appear ap-pear todestroy the unsullied reputation of a virtuous newspaper we are never theless convinced that our cotoinp has lied Need we say again nay that were cruel The facts are that Salt Lake City has not and never had the power to pro likit either the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors and all residents excepted a sordid ass or two paid to contribute their ignorance to the columns col-umns of the Tribuneknow as much fallowing are the present powers of the corporation in reference to liquor reel re-el ved by special act of January 20th 884To To license tax and regulate the manufacturing spelling giving away or 1n any other manner disposing of spirituous vinous or malt liquors and the persons who engage therein to restrain re-strain prohibit and punish the manufacturing facturing selling giving away or in any other manner disposing of spirituous vinous or malt liquors without a license therefor or contrary to the terms of a license granted to exercise said powers con jointly or separately to prohibit pro-hibit the selling giving away or 1 in any manner disposing of spirituous vinous or malt liquors upon Sundays public holidays and election days te adopt and employ proper and convenient con-venient means for carrying the same into effect tohave the power to require the payment in advance into the city l1cel treasury for purposes of revenue for each and every license granted for the manufacturing selling or otherwise disposing of such liquors a sum not exceeding ex-ceeding at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum It seems that to accept the Tribunes utterances in the opposite to what they say is a pretty safe rule to work by yet I |