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Show I it is passed we find the state reeking with booze and the pronouncing flavored alcohol legal. itCT j attor-eylgener- al does the attorney general attest to the legality of j ijAnd not only manufacture, but he provides the permit which gives the manu-jctSrthe right to buy as much alcohol as he needs. etM.The federal law says that any preparation which is readily iisqpptible of use as a beverage is illegal. And, by the way, the tate law says the same thing. Perhaps the attorney generals eyes njay been so dimmed with tears as he wept over the failure of prohibition that he could not see this clause in the state law. le. ;Provided further, that any preparation containing in excess of of one per cent alcohol by volume, and which is shown by jiaiysis by the state chemist, can be used as a beverage, shall not be er bldr the legislators did, after all, enact a bone-dr- y law and iatj the fault is not theirs but the attorney generals. How docs lie nstrue that clause? Does it not plainly state that any preparaion of one per cent of alcohol is illegal dfen&ining more than one-ha- lf J used as a beverage? Is not that perfectly clear? It itj can be jfceiiis to The Citizen that it is and that under the provision the Sfttorney general of the state can quickly end the traffic by refusing he companies alcohol for the manufacture of preparations that can ise used, and in fact, are used, every day as beverages. apparently the federal officer and the state officer are ignoring c fjie obvious import of the federal and state laws and are pinning :heir faith to the special provision exempting extracts. Mr. Thomas nays that provision is in the federal as well as in the state law and M . therefore, he is helpless. But why should not such zealous prohibitionists, officials who are paid to enforce the prohibition law, vjhat:, test? I lf the legislature passed a law legalizing the sale of flavored VUlcohol it perpetrated on the people of Utah one of the most Machiavellian tricks of which any legislature ever has been N'Juilty. Under that law, if the attorney general construes it aright, he saloon business has simply been transferred to the extract busi- less. And the extract business has been growing with tremendous 'i r strides. The .state is flooded with these extracts, which are nothing nore than alcohol, water and flavors. Sometimes the preparation does not even contain true extracts.. A vast percentage of substitute extracts, which means that jhesc beverages contain LVjiakc a m mon-Sjtro- us Lr he flavoring is some chemical imitation of orange, lemon, pineapple, I. 5 jtc. tTlie other day Mr. Tolton, former speaker of the house, arrived t the office of the state chemist and presented him with a bottle conMr. fining a delectable alcoholic fluid labeled Essence of Anice. Tolton said that the essence was a favorite drink at Beaver, Utah, I that after the dances the back yards of the halls where the dances :nd n i?hrcr held were littered with bottles which had 'contained this nectar. The label says that it is a product of the National e feat Importing Company of Salt Lake City. few days some new extract turns up at the state chemist's r.vj tirjfficc for analysis and proves to be an alcoholic, beverage. Connois-mxTeutell us that the flavors are as attractive as the flavors of light nevmes, and that men who were wont to pursue the bronx cocktail and 5 in-ta:P- rn rs J phi fizz, the ginger ale highball and the whiskey rickcy find these lew drinks as good as ten nights in a barroom. And how sweet in.t s in think that all these alluring beverages are being manufactured Inf1 pc;r tis by our own benign state government, so to speak. One can tslmCKt sec a state official leaning over the bar and saying, Whatll tr2ouj have boys, pineapple extract or essence of anice?" he Citizen does not mean to convey the impression that the itcH1 ' of extracts have driven the Salt Lake saloons out of business, inj officer selected to enforce prohibition know how prosperous it is. In fact, as we have endeavored to make clear, the state and the federal officers arc virtually in partnership with the manufacturers of alcoholic beverages. DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES FAILURE What manner and measure of man is James W. Cox of Ohio, the Democratic nominee, has been decided for all practical purposes by his speech of acceptance. He must stand or fall by that document. Unknown in national politics until he was nominated, he could furnish his own measure to the' public in no other way than by embodying himself in so far as possible in his acceptance address. We must, perforce, judge him by it because we have no other criteria, If he is greater than that document it is his misfortune that he lacked the phrase-mongin- g skill of a Wilson to paint himself large upon a seven league canvass with a brush of Comets hair. Presumably he chose to make the treaty the chief issue, not because he so desired, but because of his White House conference with the author of the covenant. He is guided by political reasons in accepting the dictation of the autocrat of the White House. He may not hope to achieve victory if he defies that czarlike personality and, therefore, he elects to make the covenant the chief issue and to repeat the high twaddle about the nations honor and the sacred, parrot-lik- e though mysterious and obscure, obligations of the American people toward European boundaries. Of course we use the term European boundaries as a reductio ad absurdum. In the language of Wilson and Cox a European boundary expresses itself in the fine and lofty talk about humanity, our duty to our heroes and the dishonor of making a separate peace with Germany. Why should we, of all the nations, refuse to make a separate peace with Germany? Have not our associates in Europe made a separate peace with Germany? What mysterious narcotic do our Democratic brethren feed on that they are able to drug their memories into such a profound forgetfulness? We were the greatest of the powers that went to war with Germany, and yet our associates made peace with Germany and left us, technically, at war. At this late day the Democratic nominee has the preposterous audacity to call a peace, such as is proposed by Senator alliance. But perhaps that is the jusHarding, a German-America- n tifiable camouflage of a candidate who was himself so intensely before the war that his editors defended the sinking of the Lusitania while he, in a campaign speeech, urged the Germans to vote for Wilson on the ground that the president had shown himself favorable to the German cause. In fact, one of his newspapers went so far as to suggest an alliance between the United States and Germany. Perhaps he secs the necessity of saying something spectacular that will from his own shoulders to those of shift the onus of his opponent. If so, we predict that this trick will fail of its object. Of all the important nations the Untied States is the only one that remains at war with Germany, and yet the Democratic nominee has the immeasurable hardihood to speak of a peace made with Gerallimany two years and a half after the war as a Gcrman-America- n pro-Germ- J i 5 THE CITIZEN I j contrary, the saloons are thriving on bootleg whiskey, but e ,c ir Uipctition is becoming keen. Up to date the extracts arc much :.toea! er beverages than the wildcat whiskey sold by the bootleggers. n4 '0luc of the moonshine is so deadly that the drinknig public will lfn io extracts for protection, by and large, the booze business is most flourishing in aji under Democratic auspices. The Democratic city administra-t- t he Democratic state administration and the Democratic federal hn jibe i an . pro-Germani- sm ance. Of a piece with this charge is his whole discussion f of the treaty and the covenant. lie devotes much of his speech to the subject and yet one is uneasily conscious .of his unfamiliarity with the covenant. One feels that he would much rather be talking about those comfortable issues so well known to. Ohioans and so remote to the rest of us. The treaty discussion is so shaped as to try to turn the tables on the Republicans. It is for campaign effect solely, despite the flights into the realms of sacred obligations and the interests of humanity. We seem to sec the candidate chuckle as he chews his lead pencil after writing about the senatorial oligarchy he accuses of delaying peace for political reasons. Evidently he has accepted President Wilsons story of the battle between the White House and alti-uulino- us the senate. The senatorial oligarchy, it happens, was acting within the constitution, whereas the president was defying it. No treaty may be i t t |