Show THE LAW LAIT the prohibition club are only asking the enforcement or an ordinance EDITOR STANDARD fred A in bis his attempted reply to my letter ol 01 friday begins by a pen and ink portrait of himself lie says sume men are like cuttle fish and slid having no other means ot of detente defence take refuge in a cloud of ink here her la Is a beau tec ini tit cloud from mr shielda Sh iella ells first letter would it not be bitter better for these unknown individuals after taming themselves into common in fonn erB to add to their intelligence by by ringing up till an amanuensis w atio ho we would I 1 d probably bo be better acquainted te with the american lao language guage amanuensis ia is a big word too big tor or air mr ells for he evidently doea does not know the meaning of it lie applies it to me ia to his ee ond letter and together with play on areat scott goes into the cloud business by wholesale he ile concludes his letter by a quotation exactly fitting himself unstable as water thou not lot excel elect on Tau thursday raday he lie asserts that belling selling drink in violation of law Is a virtue and on oil saturday ho lie says buys it is a crime and charges the tile prohibition clab with aid ng and abetting eaid baid crime As for me it if there lives on the earth a man more thoroughly convinced convince dof of the inequity of the liau liquor 0 r traffic I 1 would like to find him for more than forty yea years r 0 at all times and all circumstances I 1 in n my life I 1 have never swerved tho the millionth part of hair in my opposition to the saloon and to intoxicating poison in every form I 1 pass by his a gentlemanly sneer a and nd cannot fiod land anything any thing else in his letter worthy of a reply your readers have tiara no right to be bored by mud mild slinging but may wish to hear something about prohibition among the most famous utterances on this question are those of charles buxton an english ing ligh brewer of the firm of trueman True mau ll Il ambury in co his tile father was sir them thomas fowell buxton celebrated for his efforts to emancipate the serfs berle of russia charles wrote an am essay under an assumed name in the west mincer the title of which was llo how to tos sop op Dran keness 11 in his essay he says of all the mighty agonci that clog the he wheels of human progress the mightiest are drink and the saloon ho ile also says tho the struggle between the school the library and the church charch all united against the beer chop and the gin pat palace saloon is but one development of the war between heaven and hell bell but perhaps the best known and M esst at frequently quote quoted d sentence een tence of bis his is this arong S Sr rong ong drink baa has a slain lain more victims than all the wars famines and pestilences that ever adlich ed humanity Is thele abe e any man in in ogden who will dare dispute any of these statements and they are as true of ogden as an any 0 other their spot on the albe we have S some OMO forty places in ogden licensed to cell sell drink suppose POV that hatt these liese take on an average 2 2000 per month mouth and many take in twice that amount why a million dollars a year are flung into the tile saloon keepers maw I 1 what d do 0 w we e get in return for all this murders er a suicides criminals ein sin wre wretchedness edness and misery of every kind surely all good men and women and there are many such in our fair city will hold up the hands of the club I 1 in the effects chev are making to have the laws enforced that require those houses to be closed on sunday and for five hours out of the twenty four on week toe days they are allowed bosell to sell according to law one hundred and fourteen bouis bouts every week the eight hour movement in their c case 0 would O old be a blessing to the community yours respectfully SCOTT 1 I july 12 1800 |