Show legal decision while the r federal courts in salt lake city manifest a certain proneness to take sides with liquor dealers and saloon keepers against city authorities ties judge ph 11 II em emerson appears to take tate a Aff different seand stand we read in the territorial enquirer on friday last in his charge to the jury ry in tho the case of provo city vs 11 S hines judge emerson practically sustained the city ordinance restrain restraining ipg and regulating the ale of distilled liquors in tb this is city to the surprise aud and perhaps disappointment of a few persons who had confidently expected that when this case I particular came up for hearing the tile judge would take opportunity to denounce th tho ordinance as transcending th the e po powers given the city under its charter and that it would thero therefore fore be invalid and void this expectation was entertained by a f few ew persons in in the face of the fact that hia his honor has bas frequently declared it to be lib his purpose to stand by corporate bodies in ill their laudable efforts to restrain regulate and as far as possible prohibit tho indiscriminate traffic traffie of intoxicating liquors in in any ally community while conceding the tile riat of licensed dejl druggists T to vend vella liquor as a medicine ho le denies their right to do so inde independently eident of local ca authority license or legal restraint as ion long as laws or ordinances have been created for the licensing of dru drug stores and the re regulation of eboli the liquor quor trade trad at it those places |