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Show ., A Commercial Man, Talks. . "I am a traveling man aud property owner here," writes a well-known commercial com-mercial tourist to Thk Times, "but because be-cause I am not a member of a club, and am not acquainted with the drug clerk at your corner grocery, gro-cery, I therefore cannot gel a drink on Sunday.. Now I'm not in favor of mulling mu-lling a saloon open on Sunday, but here in Salt Lake there's a great amount of partiality shown. A member of a club can drink to his heait's-content for which the club pays no license. On tho oilier hand a saloon keeper pays $100 per month for the same privilege, with the exception excep-tion of gambling, and is forced to close on Sunday, while the drug store, restaurant res-taurant and hotels dispense liquor to any thirsty mortal who asks for it. This is not what an intelligent community commu-nity would call justice. Yet tho order is issued by the same council who grants tho license for which the saloon man pays. Why should so much partiality par-tiality be shown and such a distinction uiador" Note Tho traveler is mistaken in somo of his statements, as hotels, restaurants, res-taurants, and drug stores are included In tho Sunday order, and it is believed that most of them obeyed tho law yesterday. yes-terday. Of courso thero is no law but can and will bo evaded by somebody, but as a rule the Sunday closing order was pretty generally observed. |