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Show No Wine In Bingham We read in the Bible, "wine was made to (make the heart of man glad," or something to that effect. During the past two months there has been lots of grapes brought to Bingham, and miaybe Jots of them have been turned into wine. There are many Italians It-alians In the Bingham district who in the days before Prohibition made and drank wine which they Aiade from grapes, the biggest percentage of these persons are those who toil in the mines of Bingham for their daily existence, with the thought in mind they would still be permitted to make wine for their personal use, when officers knew grapes were being bot for the manufacture of wine, no advise ad-vise was given these people as to what would be done. Now the raiding raid-ing officers have arrived in camp, headed by the County ' Sheriff and with search warrants in their possession posses-sion are out for the cleaning up of Bingham, and district of all the wine now in the possession of these people. To take away this wine from these parties seem worse to them thantak-ing thantak-ing away their bread, as . most all Italian dishes we are told have some wine introduced when they are being cooked. The people of the Bingham Italian colony are admitted to be the bt'st workers in the mine of this camp, and without permission to be able to keep wine in their possession for their personal use there are possibilities possibili-ties they may move to California or other parts where it is claimed they are permitted to keep wine for their personal use. For a raiding officer to walk into a cellar and find a fifty gallon barrel of wine therein there is no reason to think these people have started a wholesale liquor factory, as the wine can only be made from fresh grapes, and can only be made when the grapes are in season. With, the law-abiding Italians amongst us it would sea i a crime to deprive them of a glass of our wine after they return from work, and in the interests- of the community it would be far better we think if the matter was more thoroughly gone into and investigated in-vestigated as to its merits. |