The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-11-23
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several years United States Consul d
the old Capital Of Germany-Frank
fort-on the Main-has furnished Hon
Richard Smith with an abstract Of thl
Prussian Temperance system. which
has since been adopted throughout tbs
Empire. After preparing the abstrac'
IL was submitted to competent persons
In Germany for examination. and re
turned approved.
The man who desires TO embark In
the retail sale Of liquors In Germany
First-Must obtain . permit, aud In
order to get that must show . good
character. II the presumption ID that
the person applying would abuse the
privilege by permitting drunkeness,
| allowing gambling, or tOlerating secret
vice, permission Is refused. Also when
the intended place Of business II %
located aud arranged ~ not to comply
with police regulations permission Il
refused,
Second-Permission to commence Q
retail trsde In liquors or to open beer
and wine houses with which the enter.
tanning Of travellers Ii not connected.
shall only be granted when the proper
official authorities shall be convinced
OF the necessity aud usefulness Of such
an enterprise. This rule was adopted
in Prussia ia 1853, and has been con.
tinued by the empire.
Third-Permission 10 carry on .
hotel OF retail business In wine or
beer I'm . place Of IL. 100 inhabitants
shall only he granted when the local
police and communal authorities shall
give their opinion rs to its necessities.
Fourth-The place where the retail
business In located shall not he remote,
announcement. The main entrance
mess and not through rooms and
chambers, which are not appropriate.
Fifth-The business rhall not be To-
Gated In the immediate neighborhood
Of school, church or cemetery.
Sixth-A wide distinction Is made
between malt and distilled iiquOrs.
Seventh-In each Prussian village
which constitutes the exclusive juris-
dictiOn of q Burgomaster at least one
place for the sale Of spirituous liquors
may be allowed; but where two or
more Villages are united in the same
Inagisteriai 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 than
necessary, the number may be re-
duced.
Eighth-Brewers aud distillers can
not engage In u retail traffic In their
| own productions without license.
Ninth-Burgomasters. Village mag
istrates, guardians of the forest, turn
pike keepers, superintendent Of rail-
way stations, auctioneers and their
assistants, railway building employees,
mine supesintendents. prOprietors Of
factories, artisans and master work
men, clerks. and all other persons con-
nected with factories are forbidden to
engage in the traffic in alcoholic bever-
ages. and the traffic Is forbidden about
factories or any place within . mile Of
the same.
Tenth-Public dan cling announce
ments are not included IN the permits
granted to the keepers of coffee and
beer or wine houses, hotels or gin
houses. Such aInuseinents must be
specially licensed. The regulation Of
public dance amusements Is referred
to the local police, whose discretion In
villages Is limited to one permission Q
month. In the Rhine Provinces pub
lie amusements, as dancing, are linn
tied by law I'm number and duration.
Eleventh-rhe communes are per-
mitted, with the approval Of the State,
to tax luxury, Ostentation, and public
pleasures. In Lubbock, an addition to
license tax. special taxes are laid
which are not only restrictive, but
largely prohibitory. The keepers Of
such places vigorously resisted the
special tax in Court. but without sue
cess.
Twelfth-WhOever remains In y
schankstube wine or beer salOOn) or
place Of public resort beyond the pre-
scribed police hours may Ike fined five
thalers, and the landlord who per
mits such violation may be fined -
thalers or Imprisonment Ia days.
The police requirements demand that
such places shall 10 closed ON or be-
fore midnight.
observation-disclosures violates the
ordinance against the disturbance of
Sunday. or holidays, or solemn ami
versaries, may be fined ~ thalers, or
imprisoned II days.
Foufteenth-keepers Of drinking
places who continue 10 sell spirituous
liquors To - person whom the police
have designated To them as a drunk
ard, or who permits such persons To
remain in their public rooms, may be
fined from two to five thalers, and
any retail ven,ler of beer and wine
who continues To sell such beverages
to any one vino betrays traces of
drunkenness, may be- fined half IA
thaler to ID thalers. Repetition oi
the offense results in the withdrawal
aud cancellation Of the offenders ii.
cense.
acknowledgement Of houses where
drinks are sold, oI billiard saloons ar
confectionery shops are not allowed
to receive upon their premises sclIol
ars in the public schools and other ell
ucational institutions Of the place,
unless such scholars shall be accom-
panied by their parents or guardians.
Neither Is the sale Of food or drink to
such scholars at the places named per-
mitted, aud the fact that the person
this act did not know that
they were receiving or selling to schol.
ars In the schools may not be pleaded
in mitigation Of the Offense.
II must be remembered all the time
that these regulations are real living
laws, aud not dead statutes, - 10 most
Of the Temperance legislation In this
Every sentence and clause
In these laws is o6eyed, for punish
nent swiftly follows the least iUfrac.