Show I It I II Editorials Editorial by the People I 1 Many editorials are arc received by this department nt so that I it fl Is obviously impossible le to print all alt of them immediately In many cases there must be a certain amount of of unavoidable unavoidable able delay In no case is this column opened to religious disi dis dis- t i All An communications must bear the authors author's name and address If you OU do not desire your name published indicate indi l cate this and it win will be held confidential ANSWER ANSWER TO CITIZEN liCIT editor Telegram ram si I noticed an article by b- ba a 1 person person calling himself a Cit Citizen stating it c t It 11 that tat saloon men and bartenders and liquor men were nothing more IH j 7 1 lUn criminals I s o 0 of f the lm lowest est type H II For the benefit it of our illustrious fir Mr rr Citizen ll I will donate a hat hati i to T the b gentleman if I cannot name a a. dozen men engaged in in the liquor n l-n tt who are morally mentally and ph physically higher than Mr Ir i. i i Citizen J M i I His statement statement that saloon men furnish blank lk che checks lo to anyone and then cash them is too ridiculous to think about For if I hi n i cashed leashed f all checks offered to them hem their t I losses would break brenk the Bank ii i 1 f England L II fh ji In his article ho he upholds the tho man who ea cashes hes a check in a saloon Ii land Hind nd then fails to make it good and condemns the saloon man for ying H-ying grog to get what is justly his iff f Mr Citizens Citizen's drinking experience was no doubt confined to the lower ower class of saloons as is evident in his article 1 j I would like tho the gentleman to name a 1 specific incident wherein a ainan roan inan was knocked down and robbed in one o of the better belter barrooms i W Inhere ere also is the place unsafe to show show more than a cent 50 piece ven in the day time Y If Mr Citizen will conduct me I will show f d expose any amount he chooses within reason and wager o that I 1 if t ill jj-ill I ill not be molested or approached by anyone I h Another reason for the gentleman's article may have been been an headache the morning after a grand gran and glorious night ti For the benefit of Mr 1 Citizen or anyone eL else c I will win state that IH ib t ere cre arc saloon men and bartenders in S Salt lt Lake who arc just as good i ind e nd h honorable as an any banker merchant or clock dark and would rather i if I fi a ave vC a bartender owe me me than an any of your average clerks 1 H 1 13 B HOFFER It f |