Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-01

WITH inp1nity syss sfnss H. pa0as o
IT, - ase kkoly 10 ~ noe3oo 70 qufl
In many q H. 0ual1oe towns peoooeo
tsons have beon begun. In RAE0oas -
vDek n - sAIooa ksepess vses anast
"a, and, AFTER thsy hAd promised 70 olosl
their bass and nos 10 Esopsn thsm. theJ
vese released upon paying ths merely
nominal 6ns Of 800 eacA. Thsy havl
already begun % move across the Ms
sour.
Iovs's politicians were worried By
| prohibition At the late election. Hel
amended Coossitution prohibits the sall
Of "hard" liquor - . beverage, but
allsvs the sale for mechanical, nedi-
cinal, culinary and saefanental pur-
poses; dealers putting themselves under
close and severe restrictions and heavy
bonds 70 kcep an open record Of all sales,
and 70 whom sold and for what purpose.
A clause in the Constitution, however,
exempes ale. beer, and native wines, and
under the Ruise of selling thees lighter
beverages the amendment vas pfacti-
caliy nullifed, even before the Supreme
Court declared it defective and inopera-
tive. The next legislature viii be d.
vided, and it il deemed improbable that
the subject will be again submitted to
the people. The city Of Des MoiDes de-
mands $1,000 year from its saloon keep
ers, payable quarterly, and, since the
license fec has been raised to this
amount, the number Of bars has been
redaced to sixty. These pay $4,000 a
year into the treasury.
In Arkansas a majority Of the electors
may Danish liquor from within radins
of three miles Of any church or SCHOOL
house, and on this question women may
vote; and it goes without saying that
there are many towns wherein liquors
are not openly sold. In all the towns
the license fee is high, and in only a
few can man keep a bar If he is IN
able to pay $1,000 for license papers.
The State demands $500 for the privi-
leQe, and most of the counties demand
from $500 to 500. The towns may
make their terms rs high as the voters
please. In Little Reck the liquor desl-
ers have resolved upon retaliatory mea-
sures and began to boycott all who favor
Local option was carried through the
Legislature of Texas, and in most of
the towns local option means high Ii
censes. Two-thirds of the counties in
Georgia have prohibited the sale of
liquor; some counties in Mississippi
have done likewise, and in some parts
of South Carolina prohibition candi-
dates have been elected to the next
Legislature.
Michigan has a tax law calling fol
200 for the wholesale and retail trade
in malt liquors, and $500 for wholesaling
spirituous liquors. The tax upon max
ing malt liquors in quantities less than
1900 barrels is $65 year and SIS upon
every additional 1000 barrels. The tax
upon making spirituous liquors is $500
Agar, and the dealer must give bonds
in from 5000 to $1,000 that be will not
sell to a minor, nor to either a drunkard
or an Indian, and that he will pay all
damages that may se adjudeed against
him on account of tho traffic. Drug
gists must give bonds and keep an open
record of all sales of liquors. The law
has deere ased the number of bars BY
one half.
In Nebraska the petitioner for q license
must have on his petition the names Of
thirty residents of the precinct or town
IN which no desires to soil liquors, and
1t must be certified by them that he 10 q
respectable resident of the State. His
petition is published for two weeks in
the newspaper of largest circulation in
his county, and, il any objection il made,
his application may be rejected. He
must give bonds in $500. Selling 70
minors Is punishable with fine of f25,
and the bars raust be closed on Sundays
and election days. The dealers must
support all paupors, widows or OrphanA
aud pay the expenses of all prosecu-
tons, civil and crip>inal, that may be
justly attributed TO the traffic. Drunk
enness 10 misdemeanof. BaYs must be
IN fun vew from the street. and putting
mp any obstruction, such ~ blinds or
screens, IL punishable with 6ne, impris-
oument, or revocation OF license. Either
treating or accepting treat il puuisha-
ble with fine or imprisonment. 1t need
hardly be added that4Ais clause Of the
Law 10 dead letter.
In Portland. Oregon. about $50 saloon
keepers have paid, under protest, three
quarters Of tho $500 demanded BY tho
CITY for license 10 retail liquors for ono
year, and have gone up to the Supreme
Court With lest case.
Tue Saloon and Liquor Dealers Asso-
ciatioh Of Wisconsin have voted that
they will, With all their strength, oppose
any candidate Tor public Office who will
not pledge himself against temperance
legislation.
Ohio rscsntly rolled up 7O. 600 majority
aGainst prohibition, and in thirty of the
thirty eight States the majority 10
against prohibition.
Vermont recently stiffened her long
standing Law against selling liquor ex-
cept for mechanical and medicinal pur-
poses. and the penalties were made more
severe; bat public sentiment in thA
Green Mountain State is passive, az il
10 in the other New England States, e.
peciallv in Maine, where, despite the
prohibitory Law, intoxicating liquors
How copiously. Public bars were closed
in Maine Immediately after the passage
Of tho prohibitory Law of twenty years
ago; but for some time past tho Law has
been standing joke in Bangor. and in
almost all the cities and large villages
any one who wants q drink oan easily
get it, but nos always of the best quail
ity. Portland dealers paid $l4,275 in
fines at the September term of the Su-
perior Court.
A recent decision in Boston-namelv,
that liquor may not be legally sold to
be drank on the premises, except in .
restaur,fnt--has raised a new breeze in
Massachusetts. This overrules even the
license papers for which money has been
paid.
At the late election the Town Of Or
ange, Conn, voted that no liquor should
be sold, ami soon aftefvard New Ha-
ven brewer sent large number Of blank
orders into the place, and licensed ex-
pressman hogan to deliver bottled beer
every morning. The town authorities
have gone 20 the courts to ascertain
whether this is not an illegal nulli6ca-
ton of the vote of the town.
Bufal0's Police Commissioners have
Just been constrained to Q ,mmand the
police 10 enforce the New York Law clos
ING all bars on Sundays and election
amys, and on other days between and
o'clock am. But everybody kRows
that in all the large cities in the Empire
State those who understand side door
mysteries need not ~ any time b thirsty.
II must, however, be admitted by even
the most Jealous and impatient Of Pro
hibitionists that the continual hammer