Show prohibition AGAIN last week in speaking of prohibition the reaper assumed the ground that there was wall a seeming inclination on the part of the city authorities to allow the prohibition ordinance to lie ile dormant we also took a shy at city attorney Attorn ev bates in the matter of the drafting of the ordinance and urged that the ordinance would not cri enforce force itself Is mayor layor christensen chistensen and attorney bates takes issue with the reaper in the assertion made thit that the maor and attorney were authorized author iid to employ help in the revision of the ordinances and the drafting of the prohibition ordinance the maor takes e exception to including turn him as having abeen authorized to employ legal lag U aid ile he bal abdia s th it the m nutter itter was left with the judiciary ommittee committee and ic ac accept his hia word ord however that does not maiken the statement that leg leril I 1 ht help lp N as author authorized authorised mcd we have no desire to misrepresent ala maor or christensen and we are arc glad to have the privilege of saying buying th tint it the maor is heartily heir tily in faor fanor of prohibition hibi tion in spite of reports to the contrary and nd misstatements of his position made aby by both friends ind and enemies maor posit icly thit he believes prohibition to be right and he will do all in his power to bring about an observance of the ordinance as it stands on 0 n tb the C bucks books he believes that anen the present s stem of no open saloons in richfield his has been beneficial and that he be will not relax bis efforts to enforce prohibition while it would appear that this has not been successful in the past yet he is still of the opinion th tatt it in the end it will nill he be successful tho those c who know maor chasten sen en know thit that he is a strut prohibit in his own lilu life he not only beli believes eNes in it but he practises practices it ile he adri advocates cates it and will voll do hi his utmost to bring strict prohibition lie ile I 1 11 of the opinion that the advocates of prohibition have not been ds as active in for prohibition as they hi hsc hil L blen bien bi en in talking for it and in this he is right the prohibitionists h hac ac been too easil contented in talking t alk and letting jetting the opposition do the organizing organ ising we concur in this and we urge that prohibitionists prohibition its will not succeed in richfield and bonjer county until organization his has been accomplished and the prohibitionists dwork as well as talk Attorn attorney ev bates is of the opinion that the reaper has been antagonistic to thu thi city administration and this is not true in any sense we want to uphold the hands of the city cers but we want sant also to see sec re results gult from well meant efforts there is 13 only one method in the matter in question and that is to show a fighting front and take every advantage offered in the fight we hae no desire in the world to hamper the attorney nor any other city officer but will do all in our power to assist |