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Show THE COMING LEGISLATURE. Amendments to the Liquor Law. Salt Lako City, Dec. 15, 1873. Editors Ucraldi ' In my former communications I have relnrred Jjto our Jury law, and have givon my views thereon, leaving other persons, if they saw fit, to point out their objections to it, so that the people and the legislators might fairly understand its merits and iU demerits. demer-its. 1 also referred to our laws relating relat-ing to tho Attorney-General and the Territorial Marshal. I now refer to other laws that, in my opinion, should bo revised and amen tied. The manufacture and sale of spirituous, spirit-uous, vinous and fermented liquors is a source of some good and much evil; it ought therefore to be well guarded and hold under strict survoillancc. Hitherto it has been left to the counties coun-ties and cities, to bo managed by municipal mu-nicipal regulations. I respectfully submit to the peoplo if It would not be better fer the Legislature to pass a law ! on the subject, making; it general ! throughout the Territory? This lean .be dono, and at ' the same -. time give lo tho counties and cities the revenue, in- eluding fines and forfeitures, arising therefrom; or they can take a portion por-tion for the benefit of the Territory, or set it apart for the support of the common sohoola, as tbey may elect. Such .a law may confer on the municipal muni-cipal authorities of the counties or cities the right to Issue or withhold the license; and to collect . the money for its : issuanco; also to col loc t the ti u es and en force forfeitures. And it may also bo made, as it ought to be, an indictable in-dictable offence to manufacture liquor for sale.or to sell it without a license. Then, it from any cause the municipal munici-pal authorities were unable to enforce the law, the Territory could come to their relief. A law that is gooxl, very good, under one set of circumstances , may bo and often is wholly inefficient under others. ' That, in my opinion, is the case with liquor dealing.' Our law on this subject ought to be remodeled. re-modeled. ,- : Differing with many as to what course ought to be pursued when tvils arise I often keep siient, and let the matter wbek Hu way out; but now I respectfully suggest that those who look to legislation for relief, before the public mind sees the evil will be likely to fail. The legislature should follow, not lead., the, public mind. Its members come ,from the people and are elected by them. They ought to know the public mind and obey jt. The way, therefore, to remedy an evil is first to enlighten the minds of those most concerned in it. ' Show them-the evils and the ''proposed remedy. rem-edy. ; This may be1 done m the eclesi-asticai-a,semblies', in the schools, in public assemblies of all kinds, and in newspapers..; tit ,8061118 admitted by all earnesti thinking persons that there are , (two: elements in- hucpar character, which ftre essential to good government--in teligence and morality, These combined constitute a motive power by which men govern and are governed. Immoderate nse of liquor always impairs and often destroys both of these elements. ' Z. Snow. |