| Show RESTRAINT REQUIRED THE violent death of henry gardner 1 cut down in the bloom and vigor 0 of f youth is productive of some reflections lo ip relation to what might without much of a stretch be characterized as indirect causes leading to thela theia the lamentable men table occurrence the two persons who battered and kicked him till he reached the gates of death are als ais also aiso 0 young men the deceased and aadne ene ono of his assailants were we understand friends and so far as known no personal ill III feelings existed between the remaining one of the three and either of theophers the others had tile the demon of drink not been introduced doubtless no dispute would have arisen no light would have occurred and henry gardner would have been alive today to day the number of drInk drinking drinkle lm dens in tile tiie country districts of this county and especially near the city corporate line is not only alarming but decidedly shameful ua as we have on previous occasions clearly shown an inquiry into the cause of this abominable traffic assuming such a comparatively mammoth proportion i shows whereat least a portion of the blame biame appears to attach tile the license imposed upon liquor dealers in tile the county outside of the city limits is so I 1 small as to be merely nominal being I 1 only 40 a quarter or less than one seventh the amount charged within this municipality the consequence is that the liquor business is almost without restraint in the country districts dist as it can be carried on tt a proportionately trifling cost were the hands of the county authorities legally tied on this subject the case mihl might be different but the liquor law gives them authority to impose pose a license of a year if they so elect we are in favor of this being done because we sye are of opinion that such a step would soon reduce the number of drinking dens had such a ligure been imposed and enforced heretofore there would nod not beas be as now so many places at which liquor can be bought in the cottonwood wards alone neither would there be within the short distance of eight miles on the state road so many saloons which are so many traps of of temptation for men especially ally the young passing along that much frequented thoroughfare to and from salt lake city not only have various times taken occasion to draw attention to the growth of the liquor traffic in this county encouraged by the nominal figure at which the license Is held but also to the fact that liquor saloons on the state gload poad have been made for i years the resorts of a certain class of pe persons esons in spending spendin the sabbath in debauchery dau nau chery causing among other humiliating milia ting spectacles that of the thoroughfare ough fare named being lined on sunday evenings with vehicles tilled filled with persons in various sta stages es of intoxication conducting them themselves sies sTes in a manner to annoy and intimidate decent people it Is is to be hoped and we believe we express the sentiment of the general public as well as our own that the authorities thorit thorl ties ies of salt lake county will at as early a date as practicable ta take ke whatever steps are within their grasp r 1 P to diminish what evergood every good chil chii citizen n must regard as an evi evil ot of great and threatening enormity |
