Show SHOULD UTAH ADOPT PROHIBITION While some sort of or federal law for the regulation or prohibition of the liquor traffic is dreamed of by bi a afew afew afew few of the opponents of the American saloon as an It exists today more people are in favor of ot more Immediate Imme diate action by bi state county and municipality It is for tor the latter batter that the recently organized State Anti Saloon league is working I Dean Dem Benjamin Denjamin Dr Brewster of St. St Marks Harks cathedral Protestant Episcopal is a member of the executive committee of the Anti Saloon Anti league Dean Dem Brewster said sail yesterday SIn In response to your request for an opinion I would woud premise that the question of prohibition as ae a J mattel matter matter mat mat- ter tel of practical legislation is of course distinct from the question of personal temperance For it ought to toV tobe tobe V be admitted on the one hand that many people are temperate in regard to alcoholic without findIng find find- U Ing it necessary to abstain wholly from their use as beverages And on the other hand it ought to be 0 granted that society has the right to protect the victims and they are a vast multitude of the indiscriminate indiscriminate indis indis- criminate sale of intoxicants The American saloon speaking generally is not an institution which sane upholders of personal liberty liberty liberty lib lib- lib lib- erty can afford to defend The great principle of personal liberty should not be jeopardized by a I false alliance with a 1 social abomination If dir is taken the abolish the sale of alcoholic alco I prohibition to mean attempt to absolutely manufacture and holic liquors I do not believe that such a 1 policy is practicable in Utah or anywhere else And In fact before att attempting any my plan of state prohibition it would seem to be wise wie to make trial of local option 0 The saloon is just one cf those subjects on which the principle of home rule should be Invoked Public sentiment within each community ought to be aroused to recognize its ih own responsibility The effective effective ef ef- ef working cf any law in this matter will always alays depend upon the strength of this local sentiment Hence the policy of local option is to be preferred I think to any sweeping sv prohibitory law Whether general prohibition may eventually be the solution ic is a question for the future to decide But in any c case the educative effect of a a- local option law will be wholesome Russel I L. L Trac Tracy is one of oC those who advocate the rc restriction of the sale of or liquorI liquor iqBal I am in favor said Mr Tracy of placing the license of the saloons high enough to restrict their number and to drive the low dives cut of existence We should see to it that only reputable men who will enforce the law should hould be allowed to conduct saloons I 1 suppose there are Ire some people who will always get their drink if they v want it If we have absolute prohibition we have every man who disposes of liquor trying to shield every everyone one else who Is in the same o 0 bu business If we have a 1 high license licens then we have every man who pays such license a as a spotter against those who are endeavoring to dispose of liquor w without paying the license fee 0 The method proposed in Los Angeles Angele some time ago appe appealed to me There a company proposed to reduce the number of saloons in the city by two thirds if granted the monopoly of selling drink in the city and to turn over a large percentage of their gross grose receipts to 10 the city They also proposed to pay of the city whose duty it would v be to see that the law was vias enforced in the saloons that were allowed to remain This practically gave the city full control of the sale of liquor and placed a 1 safeguard safe safe- guard over the traffic so that those engaged lq it would obey the law The gre great trouble with the saloons n now w Is In that they do not obey the law but rather do what they can canto canto canto to evade It and break it at It every opportunity Q O |