Show v AN UNENFORCEABLE UN EN FORGEABLE LAW THE T HE HERALD appreciates the fact tact that the intentions 1 tons of those who are behind the saloon regula regulation regla regulation tion ton bill bU introduced In the house by Mr Spry by re request request request quest are excellent but It Uis is hardly probable that the more drastic provisions In the measure can be enforced For instance section 15 provides that in individuals IndIvIduals individuals engaged in the liquor traffic shall pay all al damages damages that the community or individuals IndivIduals may sus sustain sustaIn tain tam in consequence of such traffic He shall support all al paupers widows and orphans orphas and the expense of ot otal all al criminal and civil cIvI prosecutions growing gowing out of ot or justly Justy attributed to his traffic In Intoxicating drinks The same section provides that suits to t recover such damages and expenses may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction If this law could be passed and enforced to the t e letter leter It it would drive drive every saloonkeeper in the state of Utah out of busi business ness floss nes Such a consummation Is devoutly to be hoped tor earnesty to 1 ti be desired for the saloon Is responsible sible Bible for tor more misery more crime more want more misfortune than all al other sources of evil evi combined It I Is a great geat deal easier to pass laws however than to enforce them Who Is to be the judge of o the damages that the community suffers sufers as a a result of the liquor traffic Suppose Sup for instance that bright young men are ruined In a year by whisky Let us take it for granted sra ted that they are all single men with ih nobody dependent dent upon them for or support They buy whisky In every saloon In Salt Lake during the course of the year ear which ends In the shipwreck of their life Ufe hopes and ambitions How Hon can cn the damage to the com corn community be measured The ruined ruine young men are not filing fUng any suits They have spent their own money they have wrecked their thor constitutions they have destroyed all al the good that themselves but they dont file fe any an damage suits The community has been damaged Im mi Immeasurably immeasurably measurably measurably There can be no argument on that score but how much has ba it i been damaged who will wl be b pro proceeded proceeded against and who will wl Initiate the the proceeding la Is It not ot clear that this section could not possibly be unforced enforced The hc provision that damages may be when It I is proven that t at a saloonkeeper sold liquor to a person who was Intoxicated and the intoxicated person inflicted injury on another is sound enough So is the section which allows damages d mages to widows and dependent dependent dent dont families where herc a saloonkeeper s ruins the bread inner Damages should be allowed In such suph su h cases ces if it itis ItI is I T at t all al possible to traP trace tra the te cause of the injury to toa a direct dh ct source The section is another anoter that tha could hardly harly be enforced Besides there is considerable doubt as to the constitutionality 0 of a law of ot that kind |