Show sas LIQUOR BILL I To T b The Salt Lake Herald H In your y ur issue of Sunday Sund Y you ou refer r fer edi edt editorially editorially t to house hOUS bill by b Mr Spry the liquor r bill as an unenforceable law lawhe The T Tc he provisions provision of the law Jaw you believe b cannot annot c be enforced enforce For your information and a nd the information of your readers I 1 will say that the law Has l as been in force forcen for forin in I n the state of Nebraska for more than twenty wenty t years ears It has worked very verr satis saUs satisfactorily fo f In that state and it is generally obeyed o with the exception of the anti treat reat t section Sad and I dont know that there ever e jer was any attempt t to enforce enore that There are a number of dives In fn Salt Lake City and Ogden O den that could not ex cx exist exist i it st I will admit and it Is the purpose of this his t bill to 10 drive such out of business The s n who honestly honest tries to obey the Uie t he law Jaw and run a respectable place need h ave c no fears earn C from the proposed law lair It Itis Its is I s that class emes of whoSe aim is isto iso to t ta o pour the vile Ue stuff stutt Into a man as Ions long longs as a s his money m ney holds out no matter what his h is condition may be that must look out By reference to the hews columns of ot v your Our ur urt t aper you frequently read of or someone some ne drugged and an i robbed r in the saloons This bill will do away avay with that business The Th penalty for violations is what brings respect t for law and while the laws lawson lawson on pa our statute books touching touch in the liquor question e read well the penalties provided ate are insufficient to deter men from frum vio acing lating l them Then again you will wUl agree with me rue I think hInr t that very few acquire the liquor habit alter after having attained the age of Q f 21 2 1 years The penalties les provided by this measure make it very unsafe to furnish a a minor a drink I think Tho The Herald will readily rea lly see seethe seethe the he t good points In let the measure and from your our article I judge your only opposition rests upon the inability of the people of Utah to enforce the he law There are a number of ot reliable men In Jn Utah who can bear witness to the fact that the th law has been enforced in fn Nebraska and that the people peo le of that state could not be In Induced Induced induced to change it IL In a state where women furnish the majority of oC the votes and wh re the th people In such large lar e num numbers numbers bers hers claim to be and law abiding I should very much dislike to believe that such a law could not be en enforced enforced enforced forced I believe that it Jt would be enforced in Utah and I know that its enforcement l would largely curtail the evils ells e ns that flow from the traffic as It i is Ia conducted to day d y I trust the legislators will give ive this bill due consideration to the end emi that relief may be had from the Burdens urdens t imposed upon the tho families of ot Utah from the liquor traffic Very respectfully B F THOMAS Ogden Utah Utai Feb 15 1903 |