Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-11-19
GERMAN LIQUOR LAWS.
Stringent Laws Enforced The Sale
On Sunday-The Punishment
Inflicted Denied
LiuuOr.


The following, showing the Ger
man laws with regard to the sale of
beer and liquors, Is from a speech
lately delivered by Governor Foster,
of OHIO:
have been at some pains to find
out what the German laws in refer
ence to this traffic are. I wrote to
the Hon. Arthur Lee, who was four
or five years consul at Frankfort on
the Main, and asked him if he could
tell me. He told me in a general
way. But he wrote to friend In
Germany, SO as to get all the particu
lars, and then he wrote to me, and I
hold in my hand an epitome of the
German laws on the subject, which
will read:
i. Must obtain permit, and in
order TO get that must show good
character. If the presumption is
that the person applying would
abuse the privilege by permitting
drunkenness, allowing gambling, or
telerating secret vice, permission is
refused. Also, when the intended
place of business is so located and
arranged as not to comply with pos
Ice regulations. permission is re-
fused.
90. Permission to commence re-
tail trade in liquors, or to open beer
and wine houses with which the en-
PERTAINING of travellers is not cons
nected, shall only be granted when
the proper official authorities shall
be convinced of the necessity and
usefulness of such an enterprise.
This rule was adopted in Prussia in
1885, and has been continued by the
Empire.
SO. Permission to carry on hotel
or retail business in wine or beer
in place of $4,000 inhabitants shall
only be granted when the local po-
lice and communal authorities shall
give their opinions as to its neces-
sites.
81. The place where the retail
business is located shall not be re-
mote, so that police supervision shall
not be inconvenient. The main en-
trance shall lead directly to the place
of business, and not through rooms
and chambers, which are not appro-
pirate. No sneaking around cor
ners or cigar stands, or from the
street, SO that the police can enter
without any trouble.
50. The business shall not be 10
Gated in the immediate neighborhood
OF school, church, or cemetery.
-'6. A wide distinction is made
between malt and distilled liquors.
81. In each Prussian village which
constitutes the exclusive jurisdiction
of Burgomaster at least one place
for the sale of spirituous liquors
may be allowed but where two OF
more villages are united in the same
magisterial jurisdiction they shall be
treated as one village in this respect
When the drinking places in any
particular town are, in the judgment
Of the police, more numerous thar
necessary, the number may be re
duced.
IS. Brewers and distillers cannot
engage in retail traffic in their owl
productions without license.
50. Burgomasters, village magis-
trates, guardians of the forest, turn
pike-keepers, superintendent o
railways stations, auctioneers ant
their assistants, railway building EN-
ployes, mine superintendent, pro
prietors of factories, artisans ane
master workmen, clerks, and all 9th
er persons connected with factories
are forbidden to engage in the trafi'
In alcoholic beverages, and the traff'
is forbidden about factories or an,
place within mile Of the same
10. Public dancing announce,