Show I I I THE PROHIBITION LAW By L L. L A A. A I It Lt is almost a crime crume for a a. t man to say s what he ho thinks about tho prohibition prohibition law Many any p people ople privately y and when they think thi-nl they will not be reported ted say that they the prohibition law a o failure ana anu then talk big for fox prohibition before a a high up tip Recently some some of the tho police DoUce de- de in Denver were into the bootlegging business s and that has hais been on truo true all over the tho country But the say that it Is as successful as the tho law Jaw against Vh theft ft or murder But theft and maid der are re natural crimes while prohibition makes mer merely ly a statutory crime out of an act let that is not a prime of it it- it self That is a big difference anc and a natural difference Unanimous public pub pub- lie lic opinion is aga against natural crimes but public opinion is always ys divided as M to merely statute made crimes The government is supporting a abig big Mg and expensive fleet on the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic coast and have surrounded the time bootleggers fleet or part of it Practically a TI war expense on the Ule ocean an and aud another war expense on the land because a large largo body hody of the citizens of this country think differently from another large body of citizens The human mind is Just what God or nature made it and aud the tho prohibitionists are rebuking God or nature If the mind were wera made in apartments no doubt they would have a a. physician cut open the skull and take out a part of the brain so that they could improve on the creation creation creation cre cre- of God Utah is no exception We are human human human hu hu- hu- hu man too We Ve know that t a man can get all the booze he wants in iq Salt Lal Lake Jake e and Ogden nn and other places and y yet t the federal and state agent are running over the he cow counties with ten dollar a day men to catch the bootlegger Sheriff SherB Mitchell Is playing a square game and is effi efficient effi- effi and we all stand by hy him but hut we hesitate over the ten dollar a 3 aday aday day drys that come from ram the outside out out- out out- side and induce people p ople to sell booze and then the dry agents drink a large arge part of it themselves They say it takes a rogue to catch a rogue A dry who wha comes from the outside and buys booze with public funds and then dr drinks the most of it Is a a. rogue He In induces uces a person to se sell sett l him lim booze that is really not in the booze business So the dry rogue mal makes e. e another rogue for the pur pur- purpose pose poe of catching him The dry rogue ought to be arrested and sent to the pen Lately we had we-had had a case where the dry agent fed girls booze in an auto and then ran over a L cliff cUff The remains remains remains re re- re- re mains of the auto is still there Another Another Another An An- other where the dry the dry agent bought houghl flue Ive bottles of of- whiskey an and dram four tour of them himself and may have drunk the Itha other This is a L ery of oJ dry agents where th the law lawm m makes drunken prosecutors eo so that thai they hey can ca'n prosecute booze v violators to John Farrell a gentleman a 0 man we personally admire and who appears ap- ap pears eara to be bo personally clean and andree fl free ree ee from fromm those thoS acts Yet he lie he listens to that k kind of testimony and approves ap- ap proves S of f it by using it ft We Ve cro aro o told Lold that at nit times God winked at ig ig- ig- ig norance It seems that Mr 11 Farr Farrell ll winks at tho the ignorance pf of the law by hy bythe bythe hythe the sleuths I that hart he lie uses A large body of people refused to obey the tho fugitive slave law It was wa the forerunner of revolution A Af f large idge body of people refuse to obey I the prohibition ln law It is violation of law to use uSia alcohol for tor We Wo know that the doctors the officers cers of the law lawand and the Ithe people have havo been using it all winter and are ua- ua Ing It n now w as a me medicine for the flu and amI they will ill keep on using it for far medicine medicine law law or no taw law All sensible men believe bellove in temperance That the liquor liquor- business should be properly controlled There Thero is a unanimous unanimous unanimous unan unan- sentiment as to that But does prohibition prohibit Does it control All good laws are compromises The constitution of the United States except the 1 amendment is a compromise What is the trouble then Is it the law or is it the people people people peo peo- You cant can't put a a. mans man's head in ina ina a a. vise and screw it down just right so as to make malte him think so and so 80 You have to take the Ithe man as os God made him You must t make the liquor law to conform to the tho mans man's head and not whittle the head to tomake tomake make malte it conform the to to the tho liquor law lave There will be men to den denounce tills tilts position They are arc not in Cn favor VOl of ot honesty honest of or opinion and on this subject subject subject sub sub- a man maa must be bo mum mum husi hush for it ft is a crime to be hO honest and intelligent if ho he disagrees with the tho pro prohibition law 0 rt TOW 1 M lL ac S R Cloen tp a I the 1 Dist of I a-I n Ug l |