The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-09
THE DAILY CAIRO BULLETIN SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE O. 1898

making the minimum price of all saloor
licenses $500, the effect might have been t.
exterminate some of the low dives that nov
exist in every community where liquor il
sold; and then again it might have resulted
in just the reverse; it might have resulted
in the Inauguration Of system of secre
whisky tipping, which would
be much more pernicious in
its influence upon public morals than any
kind of open traffic can ever be. But as
the bill passed the house yesterday, with
the amendment making the license for beer
alone only $3.50, (Which amendment was a
sop thrown by the machine Republicans to
the German voters of the state) there is not
particle of reason for the belief that
there will be reduction in the number OF
saloons keptb by rogues. 1t is fact, proba-
bly, self-evideut to every one OF ordinary I'M
derstandng, that rogue can keep as dis
reputable a place and sell only beer as can
be kept toy another rogue who sells whisky
alone or whisky and beer together. And,
to our Judgment, the effect under the bill
As il passed the house, will be that all rep
utable saloon keepers who wish to sell
alcoholic liquors will fork over the five
| hundred dollars, while the disreputable ones
will keep their doggerells open under the
$3.50 license and perhaps sell as much forty
rod Jers y tightening clandestinely, without
license, as the responsible saloon-keepers
sell of the pure article sitter paying for the
privilege to do so like upright citizens
This, in our opinion, will be the effect the
enforcement of the bill will have upon the
so-called slow dives"
As TO its effect upon the revenue ola city,
it is probable that this win be IS claimed
by the friends of the bill. The great msjori-
ty OF ssloon-keepers everywhere are reputs-
bic citizens, who would scorn 10 yiolate the
law by selling spirituous liquors without
having first taken out $500 license guar
anteeing them this privilege Many OF
these in this city, for instance, will pay
$500, who pay only $3.50 now. Some OF
them will probably find 1t improbable to
psy this smount and will 60 out Of busl-
ness, bu, enough will remain in the bush
ness sud psy the increased sum, TO make
the revenue derived by the city from this
source considerably higher.
A concise statement OF the effect Of the
law when strictly enforced, in community
like this, is probably this The city will
BE benefited in its treasury; the more we'll
TODD among the reputable ssloon-keeper:
WI. be benefited in this, the number Of their
competing neighbors, equally reputable
with themselves. will be reduced; the keep
e.s Oft low dives will Be benefited, in
tbs; they will take the same privileges IS
their reputable peighbors, bat for less than
oae-;hird the p-ics;-but the restriction
c9otAinei 10 the lsw will fall manly, il no,
exclusively, upon those poor fellows who
world 90 legitimate business, but wbc
Can n9t raise the large amount fixed oy LIN
AZ IS The priee Of the privilege Of 32ing
such business. S9ns Of these wi. CO
ten, themselves with selling beer siooe
which i, after Gil, tie beTersge mostly syl1
II saloons nowadays, srd thus the redue
non IL the number Of saloons will 10, b:
10 great after Ill, but the amount received
By the city treasurer will Be corespondiugly
greater.