Show LOGAN AND LIQUOR belling SELLI nta nia LOGAN olty oiw is still wa ing a warfare against the liquor traffic in this our friends in the north should havethe have the sympathy and bupp support of all law abiding people the thu position occupied by logan is very diff different lerent from that of ogden and salt balt lake cities the charter of the capital ef cf cache confers upon the council prohibitory hibi tory powers and these haye have been exercised for many years this city and the junction city aro are not so BO endowed the character ol of the population of logan also diff diners erb era somewhat from that of some other places the very great majority of its inhabitants are entirely opposed to the traffic in intoxicant and the sentiment has been plainly expressed in favor of prohibition there is another thing to be considered si logan has tried the license system by way of experiment and found that it did not work to the publio public advantage under pressure from some alleged liberal mind minde and in consequence of some cases of liquor seiling soiling without license being discovered the city council passed an ordinance permitting the said of intoxicants under prescribed conditions and the payment of a license fee the result was waa the multiplication of inducements and opportunities for intemperance and a rapid and startling increase of arrests for intoxication and those offenses growing out of it which are common wherever it prevails the ordinance was therefore repealed and although the experiment had worked further injury ury by opening the way for the of the traffic and making it respectable thus giving it a foothold fodi hold hoid difficult to remove yet the return to prohibition worked well for the public peace and the cases ot of disorder decreased affording tangible proof of the benefits ot oi placing a ban upon the liquor business but some persons accustomed to the extreme liberty of towns where liquor is in tuil tuli demands demand imagined that they could oyer override ride the municipal authority and be sustained by higher cauris courts in selling without a license under the plea that they were willing to pay it if allowed to carry on their trade they found themselves mistaken but still persisted in trying to dodge the law and in defiance ot of public sentiment as well us as civic regulations to deal out the interdict interdicted ed article in semi bemi these persons the logan authorities have been hunting up and probing with the sharp stick of the local law laws aud we are happy to say making it quite uncomfortable for them there are a few individuals however who seem to think because prohibition does not fully and entirely prohibit that it is therefore a failure and ought to be changed for the license system their arguments have a certain amount of influence over weak minds and those who desire to break down the barriers which law and order have set bet up take of of support the fallacy of their has been well weli exposed through the columns of the utah journal in the controversy tro versy verby however as Is ia quite natural some bome strong expressions have been used calculated to sting and provoke retort as much as to convince at the same bame time we should think that the advocates of the license system must admit in their own minds that they are on the wrong side of the quest question 0 n and that the arguments which might apply to cities under different circumstances cum stances and with a different kind of population will not have the same bearing upon Logan where the bubli public a sentiment Is sok BO very I 1 largely r e ly I 1 in n harmony with legitimate to ant aut authority h arity hority for the suppression of a tra trammie traffic c that in all civilized nations is regarded as worthy to be restricted if not suppressed it a few fow individuals in defiance of local ordinances and the expressed wish of the great majority persist in selling liquor on the sly and thus make large profits because paying no license the evil of it and the loss of revenue to the city are not to bo be in any way compared to the great injury which as has been dem would grow out of free and liquor dealing now the business is under a ban it is not respectable those who purchase must do it like those that sell as a mean and improper act both the traffic and the drinking are kept within close limits the law works like any other law there will be infractions but this does not argue that the law should ha be repealed if there must be no prohibitory law against liquor evade it then there must be no law against stealing because thieves violate that mind we draw no ao parallel between the offenses offense offen seg iq but only in the argument arg if the license system should bo be reestablished established re in logan the opportunities for dram drinking the curse curee ot of christendom would be multiplied temptation would beset the youth south and hold out the cup to all wil wll who 0 have the appetite for it the stigma sc against open indulgence dul gence would be measurably removed not only would the business be recognized but the habit now frowned down would be relieved from ita present reprobation and while the city would reap much revenue it would have to increase its force and the loss losa to the public from the tha worse than waste wasie of 01 money which would flow into the coffers of the liquor tellers sellers and manufacturers to say fay nothing of the trouble atwould th that would come into now quiet and peaceful homesie I 1 would out ont count a thousand fold t the he in come of the municipality will any one argue that it Is ia not good to keep tempt temptation altion so far na aa po bl efrom the weak and unwary if so it would be useless to remon rehon with such a mind we are decidedly in favor of prohibition where it will prohibit as well weli as it does doab or can be made to do in logan and many inny 13 other places in this Torri territory tor Y but in salt lake city and ogden and sueh such places where the chartered I 1 powers do not permit it and it could not bo be made successful if they did we are in favor of high license with the restriction ot of the business to character charac tor tar that the number of drinking place may be kept small that low grog gerles dennes mely may not that thus the whole business maybe may be kept hept under a certain amount of municipal control and its worst features be td a very great extent avoided liet let all friends of their race support the logan authorities in their laudable warfa warfare roand and let iet other cities simil a r i ly situated take notice and do like lika w wise wlee it e |