Show jam jamaca aca ginger dandy drunks nine nin c hundred and ninety nine breaks forth again about stew bener ben ber ver er utah juno june 1916 mr air junes jones dear sir will you please toll tell tile nio what is ia the meaning of tile the torn term in liquor as ag used in ill chapter 53 laws of utah 1015 our legislators were very care ful not to derine it intoxicating liquor as ao usually understood means a liquor that is capable of producing drunkenness this is alie he general acceptation of tile the meaning I 1 of the term but as to what legally constitutes an intoxicating liquor there seems t to b bo a great lack of uniformity 10 in n to the he judicial decisions many of them perhaps the majority restricting tile the term to tho the ordinary beverages that are in co common illmon use especially especial iv among tho the common people while other ably announced decisions by some of our most enlightened jurists include in their legal denni tion of the term alcohol in any form forin extending the term so as to cover any liquor that will produce intoxication which class of decisions shall wo we adopt mr jones in construing this thid statute the wets alt all say the former 1110 e edryd dry s ollmay the latter it is up to you mr jones wo we havo have been very much annoyed I 1 lately insely in our town by a lass of drunks usually knows as jamaca drunks avery unpopular class of inebriates to whom the attention of the county attorney has bas been directed by some cf our worthy orthy w citizens and right here the question arises shall wo prose prosecute cuto merchants druggists and shop keepers for selling extracts such as tire are foght here in zion it is up to you mr jones where shall wo we commence L at the head or the tail thare are dozens of extracts being sold all over the state that con contains taina ciuch larger per cent of alcohol than beer and many of them that arc ara used in almost every family for culinary flavoring and in the preserving vre serving of fruits carrying a much larger percentage of alcohol than ordinary whiskey ikey and in many any of tile the shops and restaurants where dispensed in the shave of beverages these extracts and syrups are clothed with the cecic ecclesiastical sias ti robe of waters or soda water and in this form constitutes a common drink lor for prohibition lecturers sunday school teachers women and chil dren A nan man cantale can take a bottle of lenion lemon extract ginader extract strawberry or ba bananno tianna havering and have a good old fashioned fticar drunk and as long as ho he behaves himself all is right now ur mr jones where are arc we at has morality and religion ne ligion given up tip the task of controlling cont roling the drink habit and turned it over to prohibition if so I 1 tear they have made a mistake does pro nobi tion prohibit or does it simply disguise tho the drunk by associating with wilh the alcohol the familiar and popular gieche or soda water and the popular syrups without the alcohol in these beverages no lady or gentleman would even a nell amell of them which will vou tad prefer madam strawberry or lemon I 1 will take apts frumenti Fru ment an in m mine I 1 no but however if the alcoholic alco holle imbiber appears better r I 1 in n P prohibition ro hibi tion attire lets change his rubes and give mm prohibit bl tion tio merchants merchant and A shoo iop keepers f are requested not to sell jamaca ginger extract jo to c ogmon drunks though in 14 a legal ierise sense they have ns as indah right to sell s one ex as smother i 2 youra you ra very v 0 ry rc w tl f 3 Q 44 |