The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-01-27


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EDITOR ADVANCE: In your last is:
sue there IS an init nat 0,l. TINT our VIII
laee cl.arter: contains Inconsistent pro-.
visions relative to. TIL. lNlWer to license
the sale Of spirltMOMs liquors, and QUO
tations are made tl,trtfrunl il, prt4,f. ..3=E.
II seems tonne very clear from those
provisions that tile power Ia license the
sale Of snch liquors ''as berertsQe,'' is
withheld, anil the power to restrain by
license tilr sale or:1is|Nsing Of such liq..
tl0rs for ANY Other. purpose Is given to
the council. Such is the plait. language
IF the charter quoted, and that COM.
strnctiom wonll make all it's provisions
consistent. and. In III keeping with
sound pulley on the temperance q,,es:
ton. Please follow this article with
those quotations. EMORY: CLARK. I
Following are the provisions quoted
in lasts weeks ADVANCE to which At
torney Clark refers:
n" license for the selling Of wine,
heer, ar cider. or spiritnn',s, intoxic;l-
ting, alcoholic. vin"'ls, f-r,neltpd. malt
"r mixed Intoxicating liquors. liquids
or drinks ~ Il l"'verage shall lw granted
to any person within the corporate linn
its Of s:.i'lvillagr. And no person shall
vend. deal in. or for the purposes Of e.
vading the provisions Of law or this act,
give away or dispose Of on any prptext
whatever any Of tile aforesaid liquors,
liquids or drinks within such corporate
limits.
In section IS. it provides that the
common council shall have authority
by ordinances, rules, regulations or BY
laws
To restrain any person from vending,
giving or dealing in spirituous, intox-
icating, acoholic. malt or mixed. fer
mented or vinous liquors or drinks.
unless duly licensed by the common co,s,s-
ci.
Mr.. Clark has made suggestion
which helps us out Of the dilemma.
His view makes the charter consistent
and saves it from tie charge OF being
Il piece Of patch work. And now that
he has furnished us the key which um-
locks the mysteries Of the charter, the
more we think of it the clearer it seem
And we believe that the better class Of
our citiz-ns quot the temperance fa-
natics nor the saloon men. will see the
reaSo..,bleness of this view. S+c II
distinctly prohibits the granting Of Ii.
cense to sell ''os Beverage" But it
does not prohibit the granting Of IL
cel,se to sell for other and legitimate
purposes. In fact it distinctly provides
III section sixteen that the common
council shall have power IT, prevent
any one from selling liquor unless H.
censrti Ivy the council, and the provis-
ion is utterly useless and seuseless un.
less it means that the council shall
grant license to sell for lesit innate pur-
poses.
Now. what we desire to suggest to
the council is this: Take the bull square.
ly 10y the horns and 1T your next meet.
ing grant license to our druggists to sell
for medicinal, mechanical and s;cra-
mental purn,S' s. Our word for it.
this will d" more to stop the evrrlast-
ing turmoil, i'll feeling and heart-burll-
ings which exist III the community than
lnyt,in. that has been done for years
in our village. The little cliqus Of
church and temperance fanatics who
are prosecuting one set of sellers ANIL
shielding an"tl"r set. are running our
town. The .Il;4.Ie Of "WOrthington"
has brcnt,'. IL by-worl and we are u
laughing stock among our ntiglib"rS --
Men Of capital by the lrz"n have come
here, lacked the ground over with Il
view to invest Meut and gone Il way. say
ing: ''T;,is is II" place Tor invest ln-i,t.
Your town is in the hands OF illiberal
men and fanatics and they will hold it
hack aud drive business and enterprise
away" Moreover, there is probably
not !. family III Nol'les county that does
~" need liqucr in the house for emer-
.enci"s IL ID legitimate purposes. They
will lave it, and many 1T them say
I'VE Cannot get it 1T Worthingtrn.-
Even it !. druggist should Sell to lS. he
t'nts $" 1T his peril aud lays himself liza
bit. to ltrsecs1t io. from the fanatics of
that fa,Ea, cursed town. We must go
to Adrian, Sibley, I.uvcrne or Jackson.
We can trade there rs we'll AZ ut V"r-
thingtnn.' Aud they do 60 to other
towns by the score.
Will not the business men Of Wor.
Ellington. who stand between the tenn.
perAmce fanatics on the one hand and
the saloom men on the other, join hands
and recommend this course to our viii
lage council aud ple.lgo themselves to
stand by them in giving peace to tile
community?
THE LIQUOR CANES
We stated last week that Orson Girls
sey, the whisky detective, had been ta-
ken to Adrisn on 4 charge Of perjury
He appeared before Justice Carr, waived
examination aud was held in the sum
of $500 to answer at the coming March
term Of Court.
The first case sgainst Ben Langdon
came up OH Monday. A jury trial was
had and he was found guilty Of selling
beer and fined 5 S.
The second case came up on Tuesday
with Il similar result. only that he was !
fined $40. Appeals were taken in both
c.sos (,risspv vy,s fhp wit naaa II, hrth