The true northerner., 1875-06-04
Opinion of the Press.


cure an enactment that would not be de-
clared void by the supreme court. We
believe that the result is a success, and
that law has been framed which will
accomplish much for temperance, and
prove much more efficacious TO suppress
drunkenness and intempersnce than the
prohibitory law has ever done. We
have already published the tax law III
full, and have laid before our readers a
synopsis of the regulating or police olll'
and the provisions Of the two measures
are so we'll understood as To need 10 re-
capitulatiou here We expect to zee the
$3.50 tax imposed on, and the =, 900 TO
$4,000 bonds required from dealers have
the effect to largely lessen the number
of saloons, and cause marked decrease
il utcmperance
Fro -ae Yp,Qanti Sentinel.
". are taking new departure IN
LIQUOR legislation, aud let 1t be thorough
" .r.el As one we have 10 confidence
in this Or any other plan Of making men
tempe.ate or moral by law but legiSla'
tica may be the instrumentaljty of hold
ipr back some from ruin, ana hedging
up -te way to destruction uuti. other
means can establish them il safe habi's
ana good character.
From ,Ac N.le- Republican,
Believing that the prohibitory law
has been cousp uous failure, that it is
practically "A 1ead letter OF the statute
book, We are heartily glad it is repealed ;
and are su.l better pleased that 1t is re-
placed by law the enforcement of
which ought TO be easy, and whose effect
mus; be to limit the number Of places
where liquor is sold.
From the Bay CitNChroricle.
Numerous saloon keepers in this city
are considering the advisability of clos
ing Up rather than pay the state tax
Some have already decided to close, and
few have actually done so
From the Saginaw Republican
Earnest aud thoughtful temperance
men all over the state, as Il rule, are sat
listed. Of the class of prohibitionists
who would have preferred some law
more stringently restrictive, the larger
and more Intelligent portion are in ia
vor of giving the tax law ii fair trial
They think it wise, if they cannot get
law which is the best conceivable, to
accept the attainable and make the most
of il. The men who are most violently
opposed to the late legislation are the
liqur dealers themselves The reason
why they do not like it is that it inter.
ieres with their business aud restricts
.tv sale of liquor, which is equivalent to
ssyue that it curtailS the evils of in-
temperance 10y diminishing the number
of G~unkards The dealers liked the
prob bitory law because it did not inter
tere with their business. They dislike
the new tax law aud the regulating law;
both will interfere with their business.
If legislation can do anything toward
suppressiug nlemperance, it is very
certain that the laws just enacted will do
more 5han the prohibitory law has done.
From the Alegan Journal
The liquor dealers are very uuwiSc.-
Were their brains not crazcd with their
own liquor, common seLsc would teach
4bem that the people Of Michigan will
never accede to their demands The
sale Of liquor is to day regarded with as
much adherence and suspicion as it
ever was, and the change in the law is
but change in the method of CONTROL
ing it 1t the liquor sellers continue to
fight all laws, they will arouse an indig-
nant feeling among the people that will
place them in worse condition in the
eyes Of the law than they have ever yet
been Those of them who can pay the
tax and give the bonds will be wise if
they do 1t and cease to grumbe.
From the Centerville Republican.
The new liquor law works we'll. Sew.
era saloons in Detroit have been closed,
aud now we hear that both hotels 10
Lyons have closed their bars, and will
hereafter be conducted as temperance
hotels. If the new law is held to be
valid by the supreme court, it will doubt.
less prove the death kuell of at least
one fourth of the saloons that now -four.
ish IN the state.
Frcm the Eaton Rapids Journal.
The new law taxing saloons has been
pretty generlly cussed and very thor
oughly discussed within the two past
weeks, aud while it does not please
the saloon men, for the fact that it
touches somewhat heavily on their pock
els, !; Is Just far from meeting with ap.
pruva, at the hands of the ultra prohi-
bitloaist, "A, nothing short of total ex;er-
nua,ion would But there is another
class, and it is safe to say it embraces
two tuirds of the people, who, to say
tie least, are desrous of giving the law
a good square trial. As rule the mass
es look at the law in the light that some
thing other than the old worn out pro.
hibitory law was necessary to in meas
ure mitigate the increasing evils of inten-
perance, and that the legislature has
given to the state the best law possible
under the circumstances.
Firm tic Ypsilant Commercial.
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