Show Jt RINGVILLE VS SPRINGVILLE The Springville Republican made a candid anI answer an an- to TIlE THE TELEGRAMS TELEGRAM'S request for a bill of I p particulars touching prohibition in Springville Spring A I of th that t place writes us a review of that l as follows I j Editor Evening E Tofe Telegram am 1 am un sending you yon attached a a. leader from our Joc local l il paper o nl today's issue in answer to your editorial of of ofAs Feb uary A As a t r resident of Sprin Springville I should like to call call your attention to what hat seems to me mo a series of evasions upon the part of our local editor He Tic Fays 1 When people demand absolute prohibition i. i Itis itis it itis is simply simpy folly Cony Yet the city eit ordinance of Springville concerning con con- the consumption of liquor i in iR most sweeping and ana malting it under the Jaw law a 1 misdemeanor to ox- ox lr tb the common hospitality of a civilized ci be being nJ and give ivo ones one's friend a drink in ones one's own house Ho Ha says S that lt at thc thA present timo it prohibition is is SO tight that our best people arc aro sati firl b by It As one who 35 s interested to w somo extent in in ill sociology j r I J- J wish wieh be v had bad x been more explicit cOD concerning who ho our bc best t people arc Stand Standards ads ards vary van with places of course and as IS Stevenson says sas Morals r are arc a matter of latitude But the qualifications necessary for admission to the ranks of our best people people would be an nn interesting exhibit in a general survey of our more 01 or less ICES cosmopolitan nation He lIe says u There hasn't been a n sino ca case cafe o before the justices sic in Springville Sprin for drunkenness durin during the last bix months Yet only last evening there were nine nino nino in- in in- in persons upon Main Iain street bet o between tho the hours of S and anti 10 He lie says There Thero is if only onh one ono in in town ton whore a n drink of nf liquor can cau bo be obtained and thero it cannot bo ho had in inthe inthe the 1110 presence of a second party I regret that ho he did cUrl not tho the number of places where it can bo ho obtained by bythe I tlc the bottle And however mAny these may ma- mab b be j I am told t there arc are at least two there is to my certain knowledge 1 ono one place where ro the editor himself tried and in vain to toI I S proc procure a a bottlo bottle last summer before starting upon a a. campling campt camp- camp j f. ling 1 trip i t I nis His informants are aro II six sir six reputable persons whom he heI j I believed would know A Again in iii this we must re regret et eti i t that at he has not specified what in in his estimation qualifies i iman a man to bo ho wort worthy h- h hof of boin being considered a 1 reputable per per- son inn And by what standard did he them that he believed they the would know indulgence ence or abstinence abstinence- For or I know that a majority of the tho members of the tho city council who are arc responsible for the keeping of our obnoxious ious prohibition law amon among the tho city ordinances ordinance are rot ot i ot teetotalers tee tee- I incidentally it is 18 much to their credit that they thoy aro not And somo omo of ot our most ardent prohibitionists are are I mong tho the best customers of our dru drug stores or th the the- purI purveyors pur- pur I of intoxicating liquors in other places I I p Ho ITo says Of course courseS prohibition will not prohibit abi ab- ab will it until the tho ham dram drinker is j i nor ever cr convert convert- ed d whatever ho he may mean by that But it if lot prohibition t will not prohibit why wh- have havo a law which ho he admits must ibo ilO broken and then boast that we are residents of that monI monstrous mon- mon horror of middle class apotheosis a temperance temperance- town I Mistral j the Provence poet in an interview recently puhi pub pub- i j deplored I tho tho insane wave of prohibition that bat is isI sweeping over ocr the United States I I Let iet us hope holc that shortly the tho pendulum will wm sweep theother tho the other way and in in the meantime sir lot mo me assure you that I in spite of f tho the doubtless well meant assertions of some somo of ofU U our perhaps best beet people there thera are some fome and the they are aret t I not so few in in Sprin Springville who have havo more temperate ideas than tho the temperance extremists 1 1 Believe me sir Bir faithfully yours vours ourt S SPECTATOR February 11 1909 That makes reasonably clear the situation in a country village where everybody knows everybody else else where no miners from surrounding camps come comein in i where few tourists make visits where a H tl mostly agriculturists have a village to supply with the simple wants of the farm There the editor admits prohibition does not prohibit What would it be in Salt Lake even if jf the ratio is small smaIl of of those who will get liquor even if they Lave have to send to Pocatello or Evanston for it 1 Would it not be much better better from the moral r 1 aspect i J t alone to have havo the traffic under strict regula- regula I lion I 1 |