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Show ENGLAND'S NEW DRUNKARD tiW. If the Utah Assembly passes the proposed drunkard law it will not be the first legislative body to enact such a statute. England is already experimenting experi-menting along the same line of action in an effort to reduce intoxication to a minimum. But England's new law strikes deeper than the Utah measure, is planned to go, and strange to say, the new British statute's first victim is a titled woman. Under the provisions of the new licensing law, which has just gone into effect, Sir Charles Allen Lawson, the Anglo-Indian newspaper editor and writer, applied in court for a summons against Lady Lawson, whom he described as an habitual drunkard. The case has created a sensation in England, and as Sir Charles is determined to prosecute the charge against his wife to the limit, the effect of the first enforcement of the new law will be far-reaching. The English act enables either a husband or wife to secure a separation in the case of habitual drunkenness, and j allows the police to arrest an inebriate anywhere, except in a private house, whether disorderly or not. After conviction drunkards are blacklisted for xhe space of three years. If they attempt to obtain drink during that period they are liable to a fine, while the publican supplying them is fined f 50 for a first offense and 100 for a second offense. Imprisonment Im-prisonment is provided for drunkenness of a person in charge of a child under 7 years of age. If the proposed Utah law were enacted and put in operation opera-tion by the prosecution of a person as prominent in Salt Lake as Lady Lawson is in England, the moral effect of the first enforcement of the new measure would be of incalculable benefit to the slaves of drink. , |