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Show THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE LAW - , I, Utah is a prohibition state, and under the prohibition law intoxicants wherever found are liable to seizure, but the purpose of this feature of the law was intended as a leverage for the officers in apprehending suspected bootleggers. It can hardly be supposed that the lawmakers meant that every man who had a little of the goods stored away for private use and for medicine should be disturbed unless there was ground to believe that he was engaged in the sale thereof. There are a great many people in the state, who, preparatory to the adoption of the prohibition law, stored away various quantities quan-tities of whisky and other alcoholic beverages. This is a matter of common knowledge, and many of those who laid in private stock3 have made no secret of the fact. This fact is not a menace to the operation of the prohibition law and only those who stocked r 1 . . . 1 111. . I A 1 up "for commercial purposes should be molested. In the raids made here last week no one can have any serious grounds for complaint for those directed at parties alleged to have been engaged in the sale of whisky, but it is a matter of regret that some places were entered and goods confiscated from people who were not supposed to have been engaged in the sale of intoxicants. Should this action be universally applied a large percentage of the people in the state, including many state officers, would be found technically violating the law. We think the raid here last week was carried a little too far, and it may hinder rather than help the enforcement of the prohibition pro-hibition law. It is not likely that the whisky stored prior to last August is being used for Ijootlegging purposes aside from a very few who .stocked up for that purpose. The man who put a little aside for his own u.se is not violating the spirit of the prohibition Jaw. But if the officers will do for Salt Lake City what they have for Bingham whisky will become very scarce all over the state. It is said that some people in Salt Lake have stored vast quantities quanti-ties of the wet goodi. |