Show till i in the arguments against prohibition much breath and much space is being used up in showing that a prohibitory law boulo be disastrous to business what with the injury to the investments of the brewers distillers distiller and saloon men and the threatened paralysis of business generally it would appear that this his entire nation and especially the state of utah depends on the manufacture sale and consumption of liquor for its prosperity one la is constrained to pause and consider what this word business is intended to convey in the light of the opponents of prohibition business 1 ii I a sort ort of a and every other int interest rest must move to one side in order to escape being crushed out of exi ex existence istance stance by it that word wora business is pretty much overdone in it the present connection Atia an a matter of fact the business bu interests of every legit legitimate imato merchant and we mean by that that the manufacture and ini lale ale of q is ib illegitimate busine besmen else a h high h and corrective license would not be nee essiri would be increased ind and greater prop crit would come to III all through the ito eh ch innels of commerce A prohibitive mea measure ure by the present legislature would mean acin that the wages of the man with the booze habit dould eo co into the merchants merchant is hands that debts contrasted cont aled rated for the nece cities of life would be paid instead of going over the bar for liquor every one of the strict regulations proposed by the gardner bill is an argument tint thit the saloon is 13 an illegitimate business every one of the drastic provisions proposed for hedging in the saloon keeper is a confession that the saloon business is conducive to lawlessness why dilly daily with a business that is a menace to the and pro penti of the state stated kill tile lia saloons loons and be done eiith ith it therein lies the safety safely and 1 1 reading of the soe tiled gardner bill is iq the het bet nt in f flor i or of abolishing the 1 |