Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1906-11-23
Accepts Government Job

| DeoemDer nfst, ana VIII consequently
have to leave for bis new field Of
labor within two or three days. Dur
ing his brief sojourn in Cedar Mr..
Moline has made many warm friends,
and some enemies. Without ques
tion be is one of the very best
pharmacists that ever came to southern
Utah, and as salesman and careful
business man he has few equals.
Under his management the stock of
the Palace Drug company has been
greatly increased, useful preparations
never before known to the trade here
bavi ing been added, and a great many
drugs which have recently found
favor with the medical profession.
The subscription business of the
store has increased fully onebalf,
the sale of patent preparations. toilet
articles and rubber goods has more
than doubled.
Besides his pharmaceutical work,
Mr.. Moline is graduate of school
OF optics, and has done considerable
Of this class of work since locating
here.
Mr.. Moline came here stranger
last August, and is yet comparatively
little known, aud as some ind ustrious
persons have been circulating stories
detrimental to his character, we be-
lieve it Is due to Mr.. Moline and to
the general public to state the facts
as near as we are able to give them.
1t has been charged that while work
ing In drng store at American Fork
Mr.. Moline vas arrested and fined
S75 for selling liqnor 10 minors.
The person who set this story on foot
did so With letter in bis pocket
from DIR. Noyes OF that place, which
plainly says that not Mr.. Moline but
an other clerk in the store was flued
for the above oifense. The letter
speaks of Mr.. Moline's qualifications
aud busine ss ability in the highest
terms, aud the only deriliobion
charged Is that on one occasion he
i'm bibed too freely of intoxicants, and
out of shame voluntarily resigned his
position the following morning. Mn.
Moline will willingly agree to the
publication of the letter If the holder
desires 1T. FF more than a year Mr..
Moline has sen total .ebstainer
from all forn of intoxicants.
And now In relation to another
matter: the charge that he has beeu
dispensing liquor contrary to tho
ordinances of the city since coming
to Cedar. The writer, who rs a part
ner in the store in which MIR. Moline
works, cannot state from personal
knowledge whether there is any
foundation for the stories or not as
am but little in the store. | only
know that in other matters ] have
found DIR. Moline truthful, honest
and honorable and he assures me
that be has sold no liquor except on
Doctors Prescriptions. If be has
broken the law he should be punished,
and would be the last person Co
place one straw in the way of the law
taking its course. But to convict a
man without a trial, on mere sus-
picion, is hardly my style of doing
jsiness. To willully lie about
mrn in order to create public senti
ems against him in a strange land.
ia cOwardly, to say the least, and
will eventually recoil upon those who
follow such practices. Persons who
go about saying that they know a man
is breaking the law and refuse to give
testimony are too mean and con
temrtible for anything. They should
be brought into court and either
made to give their testimony or be
sent to the state pen for perjury.
lnasmuch ss Mr.. Moline is leaving
Cedar, we believe bis true and i'm
partial statement il due him. He
holds the highest recommendation
from the government, which be
served as hospital steward for four
years, be has the best Of credentials
from w. A. Nelden Wholesale drug |
house in Salt Lake and from varioos
firms throughout the country Tor
whom he has worked. He assures us
that he has never IN his life been
arrested or charged with the com
mission of a crime. While in the
government srevice, be WIS never so
much as repremanded. II he has done
wrong since coming to Cedar, He
should be punished for 1t. But in
the courts is the place to prosecute
him; not on the street corners aud
about the public placs.
Inconclusion will say that this is
matter In which the paper is in no
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