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Show FEDERATION CLUBS FOR LIQUOR DRINKING Editor Tribune Since the legislature has passed, and with It. prohibition, and wo. havo witnessed thy fireworks nnd heard the Cannon roar nnd taken more for Grant-ed than the circumstances Justified; Jus-tified; nnd as we will have two years more of freedom from such hypocrisy and political Jugglery, would It not be wlso to look at the liquor question from a practical, business standpoint, since It Is still to be lit evidence? The saloon is the worklngman's club, and from his viewpoint is Just as much a necessity as tho Commercial club Is to the business man. The difference between them 1st Tho business man conduits his club upon decent, de-cent, respectable lines, and he has all tho profits go to the boneilt of that organization, or-ganization, while tho "poor worklngman" pays his coin for the benefit of some private pri-vate person. Wo have a P'oderntlon of Labor. WliV don't thoy have n club? Or. better stUL why don't the carpenters have one. and the bricklayers, and the retail clerks, where they can spend their evenings "chewing the rag?" All of these organizations could havfl the benefit, of their booze money,- Just as the miners at Newhouse have the benefit of theirs. This scheme would eliminate not onlv a good many saloons, but take out of polities poli-ties a very bad factor. Tho liquor men would not have to' contribute con-tribute to some grafter In order to da business, nnd each club could regulate Its afTalrs so that excessive drinking could ho barred. C. P. C, Bingham Canyon, March 31. |