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Show MASTERS REPLIES TO PRESS-BULLETIN EDITORIAL (Communication) Your editorial of a recent Issue does not give me a fair shake In the minds of the Bingham people and in order to correct the false Impression 1 1 will ask you to he kind enough to publish this statement. On the first place there was no intention in-tention of hurting anyones feelings but the purpose of a newspaper is to tell the people the news untarnished and free from prejudice. There is too much liquor being dispensed In Bingham Bing-ham and that was exactly what I meant in my editorial which appeared In the Press-'Bulletin of two weeks ago. Your police court records are the best evidence of this fact. The discovery of nearly $1000 worth of liquor In one of the garages right in the heart of the town a week ago Wednesday Is another evidence that it Is being sold. This liquor would not be taken to Bingham to oil these cars with it was taken there to wet men's throats and it is being sold at an ex'iorbatant price for this purpose. I did not get the two towns of Provo and Bingham mixed because when I find evidence to this effect in PrDvo I go straight after the police force of the city or county as the case may be and they usually put the offenders behind be-hind the bars in short time. I know on in Vronrmrrit hatoM&itgolng to the minimum and we are still pressing pres-sing the fisrht. If there Is no liquor being sold in Bingham why has the county authorities author-ities sent several special deputies into in-to the camp to clean up things? I do not wish to give Bingham a black eye, but conditions in this district are not what they should be. I believe be-lieve there is more law breaking in the county districts outside of the town proper tl an there is right in the confines of the incorporated town.but regardless of where illegal sale of liquor is going on a more strenuous efort should be put forth to spuelch it. 'Bingham can be made "iflone Dry" If the people and the officers demand it, but if both wink at the conditions they will continue as they have been. I was only in IBlngham one day last week, yet I heard a lot of complaints about the conditions of the camp in regard to its morale. Respectfully, I. H. MASTERS |