Show IT JUST DROP IT I Prohibition Agitation in Utah is Simply Silly With Spry j t in the Chair he Editor of the Independent year request for another will be acceded I have little to add to k j-oa have already to my mind outright prohibit ion in theory and a practical in I am much with the re-led effectiveness of the Vermont sperance and would very ch like to see a similar or Hil measure enacted what is the use of talking Why agitate the prohibition question It is settled for four No prohibition measure can passed while is No such bill can pass in v legislature while the senate is mainly of those who are and anxious to K j A Waste of talk about is of words a prodigal dis-alion of brain power and a loss keep up over a cause that is least for the I ime Ie anti-saloon league in one another of hammering But local country are printing patent inside often of the But what Will Sf some editor kindly ise and what it is he is trying to a Jont he tell us what he is Or is as a patriotic seeking merely to do tract duty by shooting at a that he knows in cannot now hit j Rampant Is it for the same reason that the fanatical wave of prohibition has recently swept over the i Do the editors really in or do they print those simply because they suppose a majority of their readers believe in If I might have to about this craze now militant in the What In Alabama the law forbids citizens to have wines or liquors in their own and authorizes the invasion of the home by search warrant to discover In Mo-bile the Deputy Sheriffs entered the house of a Nelson and searched it from top to In the words of The Deputies turned our beds upside ransacked bureau writing Finally they went into the rooms of my daughters and demanded that the trunks be My husband told them they would have to break them I finally unlocked the and the girls had to take their clothing out of the trunks with the Deputies standing over The only j liquor found was a half pint bot- J tie in a sideboard Deputies carried that away with Elsewhere in the State a man was refused permission tin have any wine at the wedding of his Some people in our own he able to recall the may Marshals time when i without express warrant burst into any private dwelling at any hour of the day or night and terrify the inmates by their and brutal searches after supposed offenders a federal And can any however sincere plate with equanimity the return of- those conditions or of anything like To arm officers with such arbitrary power simply gives them the right and under fanaticism they seem ready and willing to exercise that monstrous authority the that to violate the sanctity of any man's home whenever they may suspect or pretend to suspect that a bottle of wine is concealed Is Liberty Worth I would ask newspaper Is liberty worth any- the boast of the right of every man to whatever he so long in so lie does not interfere with the rights not gone when such outrages as the ones noted just are ted aud even by A man's own the wedding of his these are as nothing to prohibition or on anything proud English house is his loses its meaning your genuine As to the entire question how many have reas- it out and verified their theories with Very I so that the supposed unanimity of in favor of state-wide prohibition may he all a Tyranny of The V Any single tyrant is preferable 1 the tyranny of can sometimes but never w i f H att All such tyrannous will soon be evaded are- already all over in- every state grotesque cloak of f And if this is the ultimate at he to If- they t should drop the it is for something to t What Can Be What can or the causa here and Very- For First statute keep women of Second Make ira misdemeanor permit minors in airy where is Third Abolish the and blinds of saloon Fourth Fifth Limit the Hours Sixth-Make ready for enacting statute some sim- plan tha the-governor will ap- and that dare not Seventh Elect a of Democrats the Even republicans admit that Too Republicanism is bad for the The Writer's Opposed to the saloon in any firm opposed to the use of liquor to intemperance drunkenness as greatest evils of our yet believes that prohibition er cures these evils nor sufficiently palliates them warrant the American people in up their personal liberty for a mere and ineffectual Truly J. |