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Show t COMMUNICATION 1 4- v Do you want the saloon back? The return or the saloon Is really the question that certain interests are trying to bring before us. "All wo want to return is wlt.es and beers." so they tell us But wines and beers ' . 1 1 1 fi r i '.hi per tent of the llquora sold over the bars in the- old days. ' Moreover If beer and wine are to be sold again, there must be persons to sell them and places to buy them. And who are the persons to sell them and when- are people to t:o if they want a drink of them'.' These are questions ques-tions dictated by reason Sensible people peo-ple will give the questions sensible am wers. bo we waat th saioon back? For behind all the masquerading to th.-contrary, th.-contrary, that is the question that challenges the citizens 01 this rcput- j j 'lie When the opponents 01 prohibition talk aoout mounyuig the VoisteAd act without eliminating tne eighteenth amendment, tney are talking uonsense ,N lor tm aihendment itself specifies the permissible aicholic content of liquor, ami how tan Wine ami btcr be made to ooiifowu to one-half of one per cehl : As well us.t tne people to destroy de-stroy all copies ol Abraham Lincoln's 01 incipatlOB proclamation while still retaining the amendment which prohibits pro-hibits slavery. v iti.'-n is Ither loyal to our constitution, con-stitution, or he is disloyal, if he does not believe ift our Inrm ol government and our method of placing basic law-s in t.'c- constitution, be snould go to ttnSsiO or some other country whose form of government he wouio like bct-ter bct-ter if a man puis several bottles of liquor In his auto, these days and takes several friends out on a carouse, he is not a loyal citizen no not even ' II if he be a liberal contributor to thd 1 Hed Cross or served on the committee of public safety or made four-minut speeches or even volunteered to ftgh'. lor his country, it takes more self-sac- ri rice and courage sometime to live for lyour country tnan lo die for her and I the man who will not obey the laws or his land because he does not ap-I ap-I prove of the law. is not loyal to our I country, and b r form of government. As to the eighteenth amendment. 'It is bettei to nlace it In the hands lor drinKers or total abstainers for 'enforcement? No man ever drank even a little witnout it being known ! far more widely tnan ho himself sus-pected. sus-pected. In electing sheriffs and apportioning ap-portioning police chiefs and patrolmen pel onul nabits should weigh more llargoJS m the selection, and if wis boicc is inc"le ot these and other law enforcing officers, such as cltv. 'county and district attorneys, and judges, there will soon be no more trounie with Infringements of this ,tpan of any other laws. ft is noticeable that a large per cent of the Illegal makers and sellers of liquor bear names that seem to have 'come from southern Europe. What ' D ipi ct for our laws are we teaching Tony and Gus and Chris. If we lead rjCi him to believe that for $300 or $50 h 'may break the eighteenth amendment and never even appear for trial? Are we drifting back to the old system of virtually licensing an ancient wrong ov taking it "all the tr&rric can bear-' ! without killing It outright'.'" Ogden City has elected several ad-, ad-, unnist. atlons on the issue of not ac- jilj opting the filthy money of the courtesan, courte-san, tne gambler, and the saloon-keep- cr Is there anything In the recent political po-litical history of Ogden to indicate that our people are anxious to become UiJ a partner In the earnings of the bot-KggorV bot-KggorV LEOTA K. HUTSIN PILLAR. -oo |