Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-06-17


intoxicants in the hands of a socalled
benevolent association; desires to
limit the number of places at which
liquor may be sold, removing them all
from the residence district, and to re-
strict the sale of liquor in the business
portion of town to beer and light
wines. 1t guarantees to the municipal
ity something like $186,000 per an
mum and reduces the number of drink
cries from 200 to about rs. Whether
the plan will be adopted or not, re.
mains to be seen.
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Any movement having for it's object
the encouragement of the drink habit
is commendable. We, as a people,
drink too much. But there is no use
in enacting legislation unless it is
enforced, and If Los Angeles or any
other town wants to restrict drinking,
the laws must be enforced after en-
actment, or no good will result Penn
sylvania has the best liquor law in
the world, but it isn't enforced, and
there is just as much drunkenness in
the Keystone state as in any other,
population considered. Decisions of
courts are law, when validated by the
IL
been decided in Pennsylvania that
man who takes a drink is intoxicated
True. there are degrees of intoxica.
ton, as every one knows. A man may
be mildly drunk. half shot. full I'D or
paralyzed. But Pennsylvania has de-
cided that he who gets drunk twice
year is an habitual drunkard. The
law forbils the sale of liquor to an
hr.IIr llyn md II
in Pennsylvania was to be carried. OBJ
served to the letter, the average
Pennsylvania would get two drinks
per year and no more.
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That part of the Los Angelo !,
scheme which proposes to limit the
sale to beer and light wines is a good
idea. Provided, that the lawmakers
go one step farther and provide a
standard of purity for said beer and
light wines. These BEVERAGES contain
low percentage of alcohol, and while
one can get healthy jag on by copi-
GUS indulgence, fellow has to make q
beast of himself in order to get into
rollicking, frolicing condition by rea-
son of imbibing either in their pure
state. III beer is made pure, and ac-
WI W tuS SET Ill the udyS
when hops were used and aloes were
not; when barley was employed and
rice was not; when beer was ION
lager" given time and not sold
green" man might drink three or
four, or five glasses without damage
to himself, or even ELL himself clean
up to here" meaning the point indi
Gated by the location of his Adams
apple. If wine is made from the juice
of the fruit, instead of logwood, ana
line dyes and alcohol, its use in mod
Grafton is not harmful. No man ever
worked up jag such as the Kelley
cures treat, by drinking pure juice of
the grape. No, sir, such condition of
the nervous system is the result of
high wines, made from corn, rye or
other stuff and doctored with drugs.
Men get in that shape now, not as the
result of intoxication, but through
poisoning The average wine sold in
this city is no more wine than so
much extract of belladonna. A saloon
man in this city related to the writer
few days ago that in one night he
changes barrel of claret to port.
Now wouldn't that amuse you? Chang
ing barrel of claret to port! In the
first place had 1t been claret, it could
not have been changed to port, be-