Show THOSE BLIND TIGERS dear mr editor I 1 nill very much appreciate a little space in your valuable paper to make a at statement relative to the liquor conditions in our fair city after reading your editorial in the last issue of the dox elder news and hearing comments upon the same I 1 have been persuaded to believe alt that therbe is a misapprehension in the minds of sonic somo people relative to the amount of liquor being consumed in our community and therefore think that it t is proper and I 1 hope it will be ba profitable for me to make a statement of what I 1 believe to be the true conditions dit ions there is absolute absolutely ly no doubt but what there has been and now is liquor being dispensed or exchanged contrary to law in ill our city and I 1 am equally confident that so long as the national government sanctions tho the manufacture sale or exchange of 0 the same same liy y governmental license that thole aill TV ill be some who will vill get it and dispense it in violation of law 1 have no knowledge of five places that are referred to as selling liquor on forest street or otherwise but I 1 have well founded suspicions as to whore where the laws are being broken I 1 am sure that there is not the amount being sold here that some have been led to believe from the interpretation they have hane placed upon your article the most of the liquor comes coines in as baggage and goes to the homes of 0 the people and the low law gives them the right to keep it there for their family and private use and an officer has no right to interfere with them in so doing the home is the family castle and must be looked upon as such to them and only invaded am abed by an baffi officer r when there seems to bo be much probable cause that the laws are being baing violated so I 1 s say a ya acain n I 1 h n mahat Mw hat chave li heard rard soy say that the the amount of liquor being sold here is very much over estimated and that some are becoming excited when I 1 think that ive e only need to wake up a little for I 1 do believe there is I 1 s need for us to decry the evil so far as I 1 it t does doe s c exist xi st but in our excitement or enthusiasm we are liable flable to aay say things that are unwise and perhaps hurtful to our cause I 1 am told that some have been led to believe that conditions are worse than when we had the op open en sal 66 bohs ab j suu ta 10 suan duct 1 IL iuar ja ye any which I 1 very much doubt I 1 want to say it is not true I 1 honestly do not bel believe ielo that there is one fourth as now much liquor coming into the city now as there was oue one year ago and it la Is becoming less all the time it is a very common tiling thing to have strangers pay u us s as a city the compliment of bing dry lal a leed I 1 do not believe that in the history ot of the city there has hag ever beba so a per cf the beope drinking to excess or that its young voting men rave tried harler bar lor to abstain fi aiom oin the pernicious entla ances of laiq io I 1 know there are those among us is who have sall aud are arc still saying that conditions are boise than when hen we WC had the th e saloon hut but so taras faras tar far as I 1 have observed they aie those wilio who use tile the beverages or are it ing in the same and to us who aho believe its rac list to be an evil their argument cl or r statement should have little force there has been enacted by congress congles 3 a law prohibiting the interstate shipment of liquor aiom wet to dry territory and giving states the right to reg and control tho the shipment ot of tile the same within the boundaries of 0 the states and this measure together with willi the legislation now pending before tile legislature which will undoubtedly be come law will give us much relief I 1 the present law Is very defective and lard hard to secure convictions under by the way I 1 suggest that you write a letter to our representatives in the le leg 1 legislature and tell them what you would like to have them do on the liquor legislation and they will perhaps give it to you yon I 1 would advise the friends of a dry city to be wise as serpents but peaceful IS as doves and do n not ot got get excited keep your eyes and cars open and tell us our observations and by thus working shoulder to shoulder we will soon drive the moral lepers lems from under cover aud and place them in their true light continued on page two THOSE BLIND TIGERS continued from flosi page and here they belong prohibition is coming coining much taster faster than many ot us have any idea of and as tor for brigham city I 1 do not believe that there will ever be an open saloon here again let us refrain from advertising our city as a harbor for blind tigers but continually boost her as she is the cleanest drnest dr yest and best city in the land if you think the officers are asleep come around and wake us up we court your honest and righteous criticism but despise the knocker or fault finder that this statement may tend to de elop a better civic condition and a higher and nobler citizenship I 1 will ever boost N J VALENTINE city slat marshall shall |