Show Stand for Temperance Pir Independent Urges the Most Effective Legislation That it is Possible to Get Independent is interested in vigorous campaign for tem-ance bow being waged in this Our first preference is for Irhe ie if we can get that will e us temperance without and even without any pos-le imputation of unfairness as those- who consume alcoholic beverages without becoming a law that will abolish tie saloons without substituting for them other and perhaps worse j Such a we are is embodied in the law of and we should like to see the merits of this law exploited here before deciding to g what is at present our second state-wide Give Us the Give us either the Vermont law the Lincoln or the Got-enberg or state-wide what we can learn of 1 Vermont seems to in though not iri a highland rea better form of pro-n. It overcomes the feat-fE prohibition to many because J not interfere with the the individual to consume of drink he chooses that in so doing he does C gC Upon the of the does interfere rights of Be- D-g a financial and aste t 0 peo-r extent to the iea a it entices to in- i is a snare to the and temptation to those who have acquired the taste for alcoholic Any such place can and should be upon grounds of public policy and common So the practice of-drinking in public places or of treating to drinks should be strictly forbidden by for no one has the right to entice another in any degree in the direction of so great an evil as tippling or Where This Paper are willing to stand if need at a time when every friend we meet seems to have but one Wo hold that are slaves who fear to be in the right with two or Nor do we think that those numerous signers of the prohibition necessarily favor the particular kind of prohibition represented by the most extreme that it may be possible to get it is incumbent upon the advocates of the to prove that in no milder way can we get relief from so many of the evils of The Real The objection to pushing the movement for temperance to its most extreme form is well stated by a friend to the His summary of the case against what may be termed absolute prohibition consists in such facts as the for which he He few doors from my home lives a man who is a liquor deal He aims to sell only pure liquors and for legitimate uses for table for for mild as he necessary and for also for use in arts and Have I the right to prohibit him from making or selling that which has many and perhaps some necessary To any abuse of his right or privilege to is but to make him a criminal simply because his views and mine do not agree as to whether or not it is an evil to alcoholic liquors in seems to me few doors from my Lome in contrary direction lives a man as I is foolish because he sometimes takes wine or beer and occasionally chews He does these things in moderation simply because lie lii-s them as he they are beneficial to his When T argue with him on the citing the well known principles of our he replies that I am myself a living a refutation of my own temperance while lie is an example of the plan of righteous and of taking a little wine for his stomach's and for his His argument is yet difficult to refute unless science shall say that any use of alcoholic however infrequent or is necessarily an So is science from saying anything of the that well people ar- frequently advised by physicians to take Dublin Stout with their not be ridiculous for me to attempt to regulate by law the diet of my happy He is a law-respecting man of known honor and and it would be impertinent and illogical for me to seek to make my more successful neighbor a law- yi breaker simply because he declines to confine himself to the harmless that I prefer to his i 1 1 fim therefore opposed to form of prohibition which seeks to make culprits of any of my Compare the l The takes stand that the the Vermont plan and the Gottenberg system of liquor con- should be compared with the proposed prohibition measure be- 4 fore the latter is voted As already shown in our the Lincoln law permits the sale of a liquor at only certain places under T license and bond of and there only on certain days and be- t tween the hours of 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. It forbids pool free of low or at any of these stores prohibits clubs from alcoholic and drug stores from selling any of liquor except j If to these provisions we should add the requirement that no drinking be on the premises or anywhere in we should have a fine and simple plan that is said to work Prohibition does good work in the small but in cites as large as Salt Lake it is less Utah Is in the southern states are different from those in this Then the salvation of the negro and protection ot the women have made prohibition seem indispensable so far as the lower classes of society are but well-to-do disregard these as was perfectly understood would be the In Utah we have no such we require only the protection of youth and weakness from the in- of saloons and the exam- I pie of In the l if is like- ly to be made actual every brew every wholesale and retail j and every respectable sa- 1 loon man will go out of losing trade and much of his prop all trade may go to dive- keepers or evaders of the In for are liquor dealers and 23 f flourishing after absolute prohibition for something like a quarter of We are in- formed that the cities of all the j so-called prohibition states have a similar having more saloons and a greater- per capita consumption of liquor than while the the and other similar plans probably accomplish more for temperance wi hout the objections that to our mind go wi h the kind of prohibition in the hill recently ted-in the Yet after these laws appear to be less effective against drunkenness than the straight then give us the |