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Show THE LIOUOR TRAFFIC. A gentleman said to the writer of this yesterday: yester-day: "Do you not appreciate the sorrows caused by intemperance, and are you not willing to do your part to restrain the traffic in liquors both in the city and at the resorts?" Our answer is: "Yes, if some effective way can be pointed out?" The world for some thousands thou-sands of years has been trying to cure vices and depraved appetites by legislation. Has it ever succeeded? When the Master turned the water into wine, there is no evidence that he drank any of it himself, him-self, he simply recognized that the appetite for something beside water was there and in a harmless harm-less way satisfied it. Were he here and were he to repeat what he then did and could the fact be made known tt certain classes in this city, they would ring up Chief Paul and have him arrested. If it can be shown that the decree of the church has reduced the drinking of strong liquors or of beer at Saltair, we will thenceforth be dumb on that subject. The testimony supplied us is that instead of drinking a glass of cool beer, as would be done under normal conditions, men now drink a bottle of warm beer, which is neither palatable or healthy. We insist that the world's experience is that no legislation can arrest and subdue any vice or any depraved appetite. Hence the effort is to place such restraints about them as to, so far as possible, protect the public from the exhibition of their indulgence. In States where there have for years been prohibitory statutes against the sale of intoxicants intoxi-cants the vice and the practice of the vice of drinking have not been stamped out. There has been no curtailment of the appetite. But the disposition dis-position to play the sneak and liar has been increased in-creased very much. As to the present raid, it is especially contemptible con-temptible because the men who are enforcing it, to the last man, want the revenue for the city, which the licenses bring. It has been so here for thirty years. No matter how much the outcry the license : ji ium collector has never missed making his regular j y H rounds. i'T'H Finally, when the chiefs of any creed inter- JLsjjH pose to command the people that they shall not VVM visit certain resorts where beer is sold; that they ) B make the order because it is God's will, we say i H they do not know, and that they are taking an ' H unwarranted liberty when they make that com- ' jji H mand, which should be resented. It should be re- J ji H sented by every American because it is an insld- I 3U 1 1 ious domination of the State by a church, which 1 II H is absolutely foreign to our system of government ll If k il It is told that St. Peter and St. Paul after a 1 II long walk about Jerusalem, one hot day, agreed IMiH to go into a saloon and throw dice for the beer; -1 wT-tH that St. Peter threw five sixes, whereupon St. Paul ! if tB threw six sixes. At that, St Peter reproachfully 1 p 4 said: "Paul, miracles among friends don't go." S '(fl The same rule still holds good. No miracle of 1 ' ', I legislation ever yet reformed a vicious passion or 1 sliB appetite in either man or woman. m f I f f fl liMn |