Show QUESTION EDITOR HERALD aa As iho the beer question has been agitated consid ably both in the public prints municipal government and private conversation we think it lt timely to present a few facts to the public in general that they may judge of the injustice ice wrought upon legitimate trade and home horne manufacture before tho the new liquor license went in into to effect inspired by a puritanical rit anical prohibition prejudice the firm of Rib liter fry pry for about ten yeara years paid annually to the city in licenses since this the firm of richter mccarty alone pay 1 ISOO 1900 viz for brewers licence for the privilege of nes TAILING THEIR OWN manufacture OWN GROUNDS and for tor a depot PO t in town ton for the disposition of their product formerly a brewer could make a legitimate profit out of his business ls iness in which hoial invested long years experience enbe hard cash and also hard labor snow now all h he e makes goes to aci thecly streets would be endless ess roud mud holes whose public buildings miserable adobe hovels were it mot for the contributions budo ii a from that very source which a aarroa yarrow sighted unwise policy is ia endeavoring to stop up it h a s insinuated that they do 4 not make their own malt this is as as just jus aa As 1 it tw would be to bind a man ileth iron rou phin hand and foot and then taunt him for not getting up I 1 t A and nd walking away give the brew ena era chance chane and lr they will build mal milt houses housea la ia which they can con verttie ivert the weber county farmers fan ners barfey t yo apt y z them em tens of thousands of or dollars ea clean ean cash forsheit fort foe heit produce which now they are compelled ed oy 4 grain I 1 usell aall at only 60 or 70 9 per cent of its value JJ 1 give the brewers a av chance like the gristmills grist mills the lumber mills the blacksmith ahas and prid other indus trica tries nota vahit more legitimate ahan theirs 11 arid they 1 y can give the farr oera to cultivate ups for instance by which they would d realize readi ze 10 where they now no ge betl 1 1 potatoes by y or wheat talk lesl less about bout home indu industries sties gabble home tures them by liberal U lation pon open the gates aly to the importation afi af pf f f d arti clea drugged aud awl poisoned at that by anc used to grow so elo I 1 quent j for iame beer give the pro N a chance to make reasonable profits and ho he will invest T I 1 thousand 4 here e re he is now afraid to iak hundreds and all for a policy police abich ibich inch smacks more of the ancient blue laws of new england engi I 1 nan of the modern code rode of F common aninion ben sense s and which while f allely pretending M to prevent cat insobriety encourage encourages I 1 i t by inducing nod ld to guzzle rotgut and ind afa angle ng ae teg 1 when otherwise Alier wise they would refresh themselves and abe their lr by flags of john bev i one other point is the fact that trl parties in this city are en class elms privileges by keeping liquor at wholesale bb lesli and retails retailing i ng it by glam A kain gain dealers of ot imported bearre ro wholesaling it out by aega lethey haye have taken out only r wj licen 0 wo we ask why ia is this thus it is unconstitutional even inesm inasmuch ca as it prevents the free exercise of equal rights 1 much mo boora ra might be said about thi but we think thu will alce for the present oc coston we know that the brewers money none y hij helped and 4 i bijl hel helping ping to build up the th city more than any ally 0 other ther agency and although they aj are now laboring auder a pressure of injustices we are confident confide Ut that ultimately justice will prevail in their air favor CITY sept 24 1883 Ni 4 |