| Show L j IS GAINED h BY DY TIlE GAl GAIN NER l DILL BILL i If It the Gardner bill shall bo made mado madol madei l i la a law t It will be enforced That Is l. t p perhaps a most certain quality In tn nn any i law I W where tho the p party rt charged with re re- ji responsibility Is ts also given tho the power Some Somo good people say The bill Is good od Its provisions If tt carried Into t M effect would solve sol tho the liquor problem i lIt it Jt would reduce as far tar as possible tho evils c of ot the saloon traffic But It puts pUls I 1 i too much power In tho hands of or a state machine t It Is only fair to ask those persons what What they want What Is the tho thing they desire Manifestly the enforcement of or a law that will mal make e an end encI to tho the saloon evils Certainly the they will not sa say the they care a great eat deal who enforces tile the law The laws law's enforcement is the tho thing they most greatly desire The law which will if Ir enforced make an end of ot the he saloon evils so far as that ma may bo be is the t main thing No Xo fair man will caro care a 0 great reat deal who ho does tho the enforcement at ho distinctly dots dot's care for Isit is 15 isit that hat it bo he enforced it i Results are desired not desired not tho the name iame Y ur r l' the tho station of ot the man who gets i I jf Let Letus Letts us ts look n at V tho the m matter sq squarely arel here In Salt SnIt Lake Lale-herc Lale here In tn Utah We Wena na may be a a. little hot at each other for tor forthe V 1 the moment but surely no man Is Is so blinded by passion against his neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- i bor that he will not look fairly at actual actual actual ac ac- ac- ac conditions t Suppose a n. prohibition law were enact en en- act acted In the first place ce it will be bo against the solemn aid earn earnest cst pro- pro test of or the business men of the city I They know Imo what thc they are arc talking about and the they sa say a prohibition law will bo be a harm to Salt SaIt Lake Th That t should make mako even the tho most Intense friend of prohibition hesitate a 0 mo mu- ment meat Ho lIe doesn't want to hurt the city I Then no legislature will Wilt add an j emergency clause to such an enactment enactment enact- enact ment and put it Into effect at nt once 7 Hero are conditions that have been j r. r permitted to grow up through a long s series of years e rs Here n are e vested Inv In- In tJ v which we as a a. city and as ns a ai i state havo have permitted have encouraged encouraged aged to establish themselves They r will havo to bo be given a fair chance chanco t to get out with the lea least t possible los loss Even f If the state were to assume the thc they y purchase of ot every brewery and such BUch other property n. n as would be destroyed i il by the law it would take a year rear to get g-et the law into effect Meantime i things hero here would be bo In even greater 9 w turmoil than they have been en In the v past No state has made Instantly 5 effective a prohibition law Reason Reason- t ablo able time has been given to adjust tc jj new ew conditions 1 L Business would suffer In that year It would suffer even worse in the next year when litigation necessarily following fol fol- lowing would be In progress Uta 1 would simply add another factor t l C the many which have havo troubled th state stale in the past pa-eL i It would not tal take e a whit of ot th black off tho the name of the state Utah Ulah 1 i hus has not been called black because of or j tho the liquor business It has been called w i black by tho the men who have fought I the Republican party Thc They will wJ v gladly employ this new reason to resume resume re- re sume Burne their crusade crusado for tOle the toe Injury of or the stat state stath A crusade that has been t t If silenced b by tho the friends of ot the t state in tho past three years J The use bee uso of or liquor it is reasonable it to suppose will be much the tho same here that it has been In other stat states s under tinder prohibition Utah people are much like other people everywhere The number of ot drug stores will In- In 11 crease The Tho Illicit selling and lh the hidden consumption of 01 liquor will vill g yo gt yoi i i on Oh even more generally than now j j Tho The drink drini evil will not bo be stopped t q on will not prohibit i Two 3 years al' al from now the state will willbo be bo In worse condition con than It Is h now i And that condition will not bo be luc iUs lucto j to defiance b by tho the Republican party men who have havo taken political control of or the state plate the tho party that I Is In power po will obey the law But theli thelt I enemies will not Suppose instead of that condition tIle the Gardner bill becomes a u law Not Nol Nola a cm can bo be run for a day it complies s with the law law ansi and not 1101 r on third one of tho the present number endo car en- cardo do that an and live will be e a ti t lat Illicit places pieces Every ery Everyone one of or them wll t be bo known because ever every one will have hn to either cither pay l Federal tax or 01 chance of or going to tho penitentiary on the pros prosecution of ot the time national government And not many people pc talce take chances with the government There will m be bo no boys boy and ro no women or 01 girls In any saloon There will be no treating In saloons There will m bo ho no gambling or 01 loafing there theve and and and- no devices of or nn any kind calculated calculated hated to entice men and beguile youth No saloon will be bo an adjunct to a l gambling room or n. n pool or billiard room None will wUl connect with a bed- bed hou house e. e Tho Time business will b bo be stripped of or tho the h harmful the devastating adjuncts ad of the present business The Tho 5 saloon will t have ha t t to pay a 0 heavy Y license Maybe Maybo tho the amount stated elated Inthe ii In tho the Gardner bill hill Is not high bight enough a. That Is wIth the tho le legislature Throe Throe- fourths of that license will go to the time city The Th city will get more clear money for tOl license than It gets now v. The rest of the license mone money will h bo lie expended b by the state In en enforcing ln tho the law In keeping the tho state clear of saloons where no saloons are wanted For the lie local option provisions of or orthe the bill will hil absolutely protect the tho people of every evey election district In lit Inthe Inthe the state against an unwelcome s 5 1001 No man can got sot a a. license without I making application for Cor it ft and whenever whenever when when- j ever such application Is filed tho the sta state stale e authorities will give notice to the tile pen pen- that the they will plo pIe of ot that locality so have hn ample opportunity to protest And Anti when lilly fifty percent of or tho the o of that election district oppose it tho the license can c. not bo be granted Maybe Maybo that proportion of ot protesters Is too largo large That also is for the lie legisla- legisla to amend But the principle is i thieve there No Xo saloon can ron bo be started without without with with- out the people of or the district want ir Lt And thero there can not bo be a a smaller local local- option unit than titan tho election district And there thero will wUl bo ho no whisky traffic lna in ln ina a 0 drug store The main objections to tho the saloon will have havo been met The law provides s for their preventing And the law lawwill lawwill will bo be enforced because tho the party responsible for the law will bo be re responsible responsible responsible re- re for its enforcement It will not bo be a n law by the tho R Republican legislature legislature legis legis- lature left lert to the condition of a n dead en letter by a hostile party No law b b by this legislature will be enforced bv by bythe the Kearns party in Salt Lake An Any law the present General Assembly may enact will 1111 be bo used by tho Reams Kearns crowd as ns a reason to defeat the Republican lican IIron party part in the tho next elc elM chic c- c tion There Thero is tho the difference A prohibition prohibition tion law lat will not get the tho results so earnestly desired by the people And tho the Gardner law will actually get ct the tho results desired The only obJection objection objection tion then must be that the friends o of temperance would rather havo have t Lie 1 le evils than have havo the tho Republican party remove them And that is not a n safe position for fr frany r ran an any friend of or the party part or an any friend of ot tho the state to take 0 It would seem that true reformers ls l's would prefer preter th to the Ue I empty name namo |
