Show THE SALOONS OF UTAH the saloonkeepers saloon keepers of utah are about to clean house they realize bow dangerously close is local option so they arc preparing to meet that agitation with a saloon freed from its most objectionable features it has been suggested that the liquor men of utah put in dorco the rules observed in scandinavian countries where in intoxicated person Is seldom with because the retailer ot liquor Is required to care for any one found on his premises in an intoxicated condition with the selling of strong drink to a man slightly under the influence of liquor eliminated the saloon openly and orderly conducted be productive of less evil toa to a community than the secret traffic and blind tigers of those states where prohibition indifferently enforced falls to prohibit A few days ago an ogden citizen reeled as he moved along the sidewalk and ho caught hold of a liquor dealer then he made his way to a saloon and when he emerged the liquor dealer inquired of the bartender it he sold the inebriated fellow a drink and the bartender replied 1 I did he can have all he wants why he is not drunk the liquor man in an up braiding tone said it you do not know that the man Is drunk then you are unfit to stand behind a bar A le of this paper then asked the dealer as to what should bo done in cases of that mav where the bartenders are not disposed to be honest with themselves or customers and he answered 1 I am in favor of starting a movement among the liquor men themselves saloonkeepers saloon keepers and all for a general purging and purification and I 1 shall champion euch measures pt legislation as will drive out the unprincipled and give to utah the best regulated public places in the country ogdan should set the example between now and the time when the legislature meets a test can be made to prove that public houses can be so conducted as not to b offensive to the most sensitive or falling in that demonstration on the saloons must confess the justification of the campaign now on to sweep utah into the column of dry states |