Show Regulation or A careful analysis by which the News' Refused to i In the Deseret News of there appeared an article nearly three columns in length by Kennedy of headed the Saloons Pay the The conclusion of that article of too long to print was as saloon in account with the city op happy HOMES To rent for one year To barroom furniture To stock of merchandise To living s To more money for liquor Total By one year's license By balance against the is going to make the treasurer will be something doing the taxpayers see this statement and begin to realize that they have paid out each trying to save in Some of these fanatics will want to prohibit saloons Then what will become of the you lived in that what would you be in favor of The article is probably misleading at all the answer to it should have been given a But the News prints only one side the prohibition side of the liquor hence the following correspondence from and the usual answer of the 1 Salt Lake Editor Deseret Dear Enclosed is a communication along similar lines to that published in your columns from Kennedy of on In it I have endeavored to show in conservative manner my view of the saloon license which while different from Kennedy's is equally and if you see fit to publish same with prominence given the other article your courtesy will be greatly appreciated by the Yours Francis D. i. The editor does not regard the matter submitted as 1 The Deseret We here print the communication that the News refused The Busy Once there was another beautiful little city as happily located as the of Beautiful told about in the Deseret News of The people living there were not fairy-tale but simply normal human beings many virtues and many This being the it was not necessary for them to be coerced by mass meetings or exhortations to go forth and drink intoxicating In the contrary was and in spite of very stringent laws against the sale of intoxicating those of the people who always found places to secure One Thousand Taxpayers It was a pretty little lying on bench land of a mountain where the land was fertile and the crops' In the course of some of the people t of the agricultural city went forth to the mountain nearby dug out ores and and started mills works in the The glow- ing piles of slag lighted up the heavens at and the little city buzzed with industry and soon it became known far as Busy The men who owned the mines and mills and smelters found it necessary to send to far off and Italy and Austria for ers to help them win cheaply from the mountain its stores of The people of Busy who owned these as well as those who raised the all prospered as the yield of the farms and fields of the townsfolk were in great demand to feed the many Finally there were a full ten thousand people in the but of only one-thousand were tax-payers being those who had come there in early times and had broken the land by hard and had reared and by frugal living had accumulated Many of them had besides their own other houses and from which they received rent for the housing of the thousand unmarried and un-propertied and laborers in the metal The Taxes Paid This was a present-day city and so required considerable money to operate its governmental to light its provide sewers and furnish fire and and to healthful and beautiful So the town board met and decided that a full would be necessary for the year's they called all of the thousand tax-payers and as all were equally assessed them each as the year's which all promptly The thousand unmarried foreign laborers rejoiced at for they owned no property and therefore did not have to pay any tax So they were able to send that much more away t with their Christmas money orders to the countries across the A Prohibition Town There were no licensed saloons in Busy for it had that is to twenty did business in livery ens and other retreats where no to speak was They each disposed of about worth of liquors per or for them because the large foreign and unmarried population spent money v t for liquor by the men who and there was a demand worked in the heat of the blast furnaces the dampness of the none fd of the ores or t entirely All of this money necessarily came and the in the city who spent their money for liquors thrifty and temperate tax-payers for such because they themselves spent nothing so the bootleggers sent out of the State to eastern distilleries for ardent spirituous liquors of doubtful containing much 50 or 00 per were too dangerous to being entirely too as they contained and for this reason could not only per cent be smuggled in with Each bootlegger also spent for the twenty of about a or for police and hiring lawyers to fight their cases in the This left or in all for living expenses for the Payers Aroused the industrious and temperate tax-payers became aroused and held a mass they desired to know why they alone should share all the burden of the city's expenses while the thousand laborers and patrons of the blind tigers paid reason is said the have been temperate and and you now have families and own the while those fellows are and and have saved no money or Then the tax-payers got busy and decided that they must be working on bad financial basis when they placed a premium on foolish spending and intemperance and placed a burden on sobriety and frugal The Dives Abolished So they selected ten honorable who could be depended upon to live up to the city and bade them enter the liquor business in policed by paying each as a or in into the city These men then each rented somo tax payer's property at per or for them and thus paid back to the at this much Their which cost each and lasted ten to twenty made an inconsiderable item for any one year's Competition speedily forced the twenty blind tigers to close their disreputable places and move on to the next The demand of the drinking part of the population remained the and the legitimate dealers 2 T part of of old and they likewise paid out wholesale for their But there a difference being was open and sanctioned and not having to smuggle in a 1 by DV law for mild lager be r the and only for ardent spirituous while even h much grater purity and we're lei ZT old The brewery in the iK received the sent of it back s the fall for for a team of and 00 for hay and This all went to the thrifty farmers and tax-payers of Busy The Revenues Collected The legitimate saloon now doing the of deducted their and and had left or each for their own living This the thrifty farmers and tradesmen also back for their At the end of the year the citizens began to City's as before Now raised by by they discovered a profit to themselves of on the spent as the saloon men's living expenses and the spent by the brewery for their This new plus the new rent made of their taxes returned to Thus they were out only or each for instead of as they had been under the old Thrift Rewarded they made and temperance more popular than ever in Busy while they forced the careless men of the community without home or desire for home and to pay of the city's or more than nine tenths of the which was deemed only a fair as these persons were the ones on whose account the city's revenues were most often they found a great gain in sobriety in that they had replaced two-thirds of the ardent spirits with mild fermented One day an internal revenue man happened in town and explained further that the dealers and wholesalers had paid of their total receipts to the federal government for business done in Busy making for each which the taxpayers would surely otherwise have had to pay to the government in excise or higher cost of if Uncle Sam's liquor revenue had been cut off over the entire as they had attempted to cut it off in the first instance in Busy This is merely the financial aspect of the which is all that was considered in your article of the A gain equally great in civic decency and morals could also be Francis D. Salt Lake Now why should any paper refuse space to such a Is it because its facts are j Or is it because prohibitionists simply will not give both sides of this In refusal to give both sides of such a question is and it may be an act of moral cowardice as The Utah Independent is the one paper far as we it's the only paper in this that gives both sides of every disputed public |