| Show THAT SALOON A letter from B F r grant to tile the deseret ne news s I 1 list it friday indirectly charges the inter afountain mount Aloun tain ain republican with aith having haing accepted monc from the liquor interests for ceasing to publish boxed artilles articles urging prohibit tio the inter mountain denies the implication another phase 0 of t the e liquor problem has appeared in tile the preparation of i bill to be introduced in the legislature legis liture the politicians dubbed the federal bunch lie ale charged with huang piel bcd this bill the intermountain inter mountain devoted two columns of editorial space to 1 I 1 discussion and in an rit nt ut of the measure last sunday sunda bebide bebi db s deo devoting ting entire columns to pre presenting the on en tire bill to its readers it I 1 is peculiar that the it ii ter mountain shook have bae postponed mention of the halor problem for so long i I 1 time it opposes prohibition now nov and urges the passage of this measure leisure aich which proposes saloon regulation tion the bill proposes to tike take the lon 1011 arol of the liquor traffic out of the hands of the local municipal and county officers and place it in the hands of the state officers that is the first point which the average citizen will aill oppose the intermountain inter mountain contains contain this remarkable statement in its editorial comment and ani it is headed the practical result 11 imagine our elf at the head bead of a city pirt anxious anxious to carry the city election ou are going to make terms with ith the disorderly element to get their support at the dolls thy they support houi parti it the polls and bour pirth having won on grants them privileges does not strict strictly enforce e the law against them that is human nature it is the Ir practice aLtICe of FO roll ties but bour officer and dour state officer is not choll whole dependent on the city ilo ho cin can bo be elected without the bal baj element clement in the cit though the majority of the eit cit be against him he can se ure election with aith the votes outside the city added to his friendly note voted in the cit the disreputable can demand no terms of a state officer because they have no club th thit it will reach the state officer the are the minority in the cit the ire but so long as the licensing power rema ns in th h cit citi that minority the disreputable minori ont tN dictates terms helps hect i the city citi officers and from those officers gets many fa favors ors Is this an admission it is ed that just that very thing happened in the recent election and that the politicians and the intermountain inter mountain sold out to the liquor int interests crests call them the if louwill iou will for political adan advantage tage admitting that this state of affairs js is true and that politicians from hurran nature will vill sell bell out to the it a fact that the intermountain inter mountain argument falls by its onn weight if the saloon is abolished comp completely letell as designed bi the reputable element lessened both in the eirv cita and state stated the thing that the desire most of all is the abolishment of the saloon this pro proposed bused bill offers drastic measures for regulating the saloon this proposition appears plain to us any business that requires such euch drastic measures for controlling it is dangerous dinge roub to the state and ought not to he be permitted to exist the lery cry fact that such regulations seem necessary even to the inter mountain ehon the business of the saloon to be an illegitimate one the thing to do is to pass the prohibition bill and put the saloon out of business where thu the will no longer be bc a factor in political life that admission of the intermountain brems to us to be a terrible arraignment of the politicians who are alleged to have formed this subterfuge measure |
