| Show Senator Seeley of a Spring July V. S. Editor of the Utah Dear I noticed by your paper of July 14 that you copied a good article from the which praised that city and the surrounding That editorial must have met with your approval or you would not have copied if that is your views of Pleasant and San Pete what is your opinion of Senator Seeley of our Did he make good as a senator in your You will remember that he voted against the Cannon prohibition bill in the and signed a petition for local option in Mt You can answer this letter in the Independent if you Yours A The above communication sounds very much like it looks as though one of our many subscribers in Sanpete county is endeavoring to wring the Utah Independent into partisan Prohibition and local We have been asked a straight question and we are independent enough to answer politics or no we do not know our subscriber well enough to know whether he desires us to roast Seeley or to praise We kept tab on all the Utah senators at our last session of the and we are free to say that for a Seeley made He was one of the most independent members of that he was a good he thoroughly attended to his he kept track of every bill and when it came to voting he was not swayed by friends or corporations he voted as his conscience without regard to policy or The the the whiskey men or corporations could not influence him in the slightest While 65 per cent of Sanpete county were clamoring for state-wide k Seeley was independent enough to vote against the Connecticut Cannon statewide A bill drawn up by a conscientious but one who had allowed his sentiment to get the better of his temperance will eliminate the saloon and drunkenness without statutory State statutory law will not do away with drunkenness or liquor dealers as long as Uncle Sam will license anyone to sell liquors in a prohibition state and will allow the United States mail and the express companies to deliver intoxicants to anyone in a prohibited The Cannon bill invaded the privacy of the home and the liberty of Under that bill a justice of the peace or a judge could issue an order directing a constable or his deputies to enter a private home and search it from cellar to garret if it was suspected that liquors were kept there to be sold or given The people of Utah have had bitter experiences in a vested house searching authority given to an officer of the law or his During the raids in searchers for polygamists would burst into private homes unannounced at all hours of the They brutally and unceremoniously entered the rooms where children were born and during the small hours of the and without they broke down the doors of the sleeping apartments of ladies and in a and brutal manner subjected the inmates to indignities and humiliation when the searchers must have known that the object or the pretended object of their search was in another The privacy of the home would not have been safe if the Canno vT should have become The Cannon bill made it a minal act for a neighbor to another's life or help hira in jS f If a person were bitten tJ a had or became or had any ble where intoxicating J would save his life or relieve any person who would relief such a sufferer by giving hij whiskey without a doctor's pr there not have been an M. D. such a good tan would be a criminal if tl Cannon bill had become Even a doctor had to exp the privacy of a home by ly posting a notice with the coti ty clerk the amount and number of times he whiskey or for a private The Cannon bill was a to the English which culminated in the that act allowed the lish to search American and press into service whom they thought fl If Seeley signed a against granting a license saloon in Pleasant it that he believes in local or in other words to clean 1 in your own ty before you try to reform I Jfe One important point that tH people should remember is When an intelligent independent man has been elecH ed as a it is good K keep him There are many new members of our sta legislature at the beginning each session that it takes half of its term before they down to seeley a tiller of the soil and a sto raiser and he has made good v his he knows the sity of good good rural and that will make the farmer m and when the fat R doing hard times arc U Seeley has pros-Lowell in the accumulation world's goods that a rail-f pass and other gifts would o influence with his con-ff the If Sanpete is going to do not know of a better that party than See-V. S. PEET |
