| Show OUR CITY mm from the sale of liquor alone the gained from licenses the last quarter nearly four thousand dollars this is a little larger than usual but the city has a total revenue rom the liquor traffic per annum of more than thirteen thousand dollars this is twice as much as the income from taxation the city this year raised a nine thousand dollar tax of which one third is paid in labor the thirteen thousand dollar revenue from the is also a tax on the population as the rum tellers do not buy a license merely for the pleasure of being in the liquor business in oher words those who buy the 1 quor must pay for the coat of ihu liapi gib well as the pr fits and cost 0 11 liquor this tax however is vry unequal in boi n aises H ician is taxed to the extent of n his innocent children at hamn of the lelal ruination of his ente reuses and in numerous of the last basin this cold dreary world wu may murmur nud hat with jus cause at the inequality os ahe birau tax it is the man who consumes th most articles on which there is a duty who pays the heaviest tariff tax so it is in the case of the liquor tax the more a man consumes the greater is he taxed in the tax of the tariff unjust legisla tion forces the tax upon an individual in the case 0 the liquor tax a man forces it upon himself an ap petite for liquor does not form in a day nor a but little by little a person forces himself to become a slave to drink this is accod shed king alcohol holds him in chains stronger than the laws of man it i not the purport to preach a temperance lecture but we do wish to cry against the growing saloon evil in 0 already hu eleven saloons and our city has according to the ceniu returns of the finest anilo bugs in the city ara employed in ehfe quor traffic and not a week passes but that some man of a reputable business seeks a location locati cn in prove has to leave as no vacant place can be found we hold out the advantages of our barden city rd and aek ti cm to come and li aith us at the same time w blush w th to answer th question how many saloons havoc you the jorth american temperance union sent out to ascertain the number of saloons m the city tin from the same and the roi lation of provo tho city recorder gave the facts in the case and possibly we may soon have some missionaries sent us from boston none will deay the fact that they can find in provo a big field for action ant how must ire than stand in the face of the world the people who founded provo cry temperance is a great prin oaple of their creed and then seek to regenerate the world in this particular but how must they feel to have missionaries sent into their midst to accomplish reforms stillie welcome anything that will lessen the evil of drink in our midst |
