St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-27
HINT Ifinh License Mems.

10 Ine EQltOr OF the GlODe.
It is easy to argue with apparent success
against the high license movement by stat
ing incorrectly the status of the question.
This is what Col Allen very markedly does
in his interview with the GLOBE reporter
The colonel, we are told, has no faith in high
license because ''where it is simply ques-
ton of paying a considerable sum of money,
the very worst and most disreputable places
pay the required sum and get an unrestrict-
ed license, he would have licenses issued
under such restrictions that it would not
follow that becau Sc a man could raise spe-
ciic sum Of money he could engage in the
business if he was unfit in other respects"
1t is scarcely possible to put the high license
movement in a more untrue light. The
colonel must know that not a single advo-
cate of high license proposes mere high
license as the sole requirement. The payment
of a large tax is but one Of the several
restrictions upon the traffic which it is the
intention to demand and to enforce, with
the view of compelling the liquor-trafiic to
hold itself within permissible limitations.
All the restrictions which Col. Allen men
tons we include in our programme together
with special high tax, which we deem neces-
sary to remedy evils that other restrictions
will not reach and to give to other restric-
tons practical effect. The high license
movements means the effectual regulation of
the liquor-traffic, and it means all the
measures needed to bring about such regu
lation. The liquor ordinances adopted or to
be adopted in Saltwater and Minneapolis
indicate plainly what the movement means,
and in those ordinances the Colonel will find
something more than "mere high license"
or an authorization to any man to engage in
the business under payment of certain sum
of money even 'if he is unfit in other re-
spects."
The special high tax, or ''the mere high
license" is necessary in addition to other
restrictions, to limit the number of saloons
The present exorbitant expansion is great
cause of public mischief, as it multiplies be-
You'd all reasonable demand the means of
supply and begets on this account some of
the most dreadful evils connected with the
traffic, and no more effective means can be
proposed than a special high tax to reduce
this expansion. Limitations based upon
considerations of moral character to be found
in those who propose to open saloons, and
TO be passed upon by a committee of alder
men viii not for obvious reasons suffice; the
public insist that there shall be a tangible,
visible line Of limitations, independent Of
the peculiar moral perceptions of committee
or body of men, whose interests usually are
served by the very expansion they are en-
gagged in restricting. No measure will as
well as this special high tax reach to the real
culprits and boss drunkard makers-the
wholesale distillers and brewers. Things
would be passibly well with US if there were
not in each city q certain num-
Der of wholesale lquol-men ever
on the alert to support an
opening for saloon, and ever ready to set
up man in the business. Some four whole
sale liquor dealers control or own to-day in
st. Paul nearly half our saloons, and these
four men are the ones who, in the interest of
the traffic. seek to fashion the politics of the
city, and to kick aside most uncermoniously
Col. Allen himself. The special high tax
and nothing else will bring these wholesale
dealers to their senses. This tax is needed
that other restrictions may be enforced.
| These restrictions are very good in them
selves, as Mr. Cole pointed out at Market
hall in the course of his anti-license address,
but in order that they be enforced, the fur
Their restriction of special high tax reducing
the number of saloons must be added. The
virtue of this high tax is perceptible in the
fear which its probable enforcement in
the near future inspired and to good resolu-
tons which this fear compels. Before the
question of raising the license was
mooted, there was no word about
other restriction; the traffic was free
TO all and under all conditions But now
we hear great deal about the various means
by which it can be restricted, and besides
raising the tax upon it. Low-license men,
who in heart favor free whisky and free beer
talk of those other restrictions in the hope OF
deluding us and leading us off on false
track away from the sole path to success
high license combined with other restrictive
measures Let us not be caught by their
sophistry. The moment we drop high-license
they will drop the restrictions.
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