The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-10-02
Temperance,
High License.

caster county has pcoduced, who as By
ron puts it shave learned to think a"d
sternly speak the truth, published last
March in OoforG Press ;su exhaustive
reply to the plausible evasion acgu-
ments in favor of going back to the Ii
cense system to cure intemperance,
which apparently many Of our temper.
ance friends arc inclined to do.
Mr.. Turner has coDpiled some stat
istics on this subject, which overturn
the vague, and general assertions made
by the champions of the rum trade
aud echoed by the 'timid children of
the prohibition ranks. The following
extracts comprise g part of those stats.
tics.
I'm Nebraska, where the license fee is
81 100000, Hon. II. w Hardy, ex.may-
or Lincoln, the originator of the idea
there, and all it's friends, temperance
men such as John b. Finch, unite in
declaring it an awful failure. 1t fails
to answer the expectationsofits friends
in every particular in which results are
claimed for it.
4. In many cases the number Of
drinking houses is only slightly dimiR-
ished, or not at all. In Nebraska rthe
nambcr dropped from 1910 to LILA
the first year under 100000 Ii
cense. Next year it rose to l, l73, aud
is still increasing. Retail houses de-
cpeased slightly, while WHOLESALER houses
increased. That is, more liqucr was
sold for home and club consumption
In Des Moins, Iowa, the records OF
the clerk give these figures In 1871,
with the license fee at $4,000, there
were II saloons In 1872, with licence
at $500 00 there were rs saloons. In
1880, with license at $3.50 90, there
were 40. And in 1882, with license at
81 100000, there were 80 saloons.
Where high license does not result in
a reduced number of bar-rooms, this
benefit is more than Offset by the add
ton of new and worse features by those
that remain. ''Many saloons have a
house of prostitution as AN annex, while
most Of them run a gambling hell"
The stock ofliquor is piled with cheap
drugs to swell its dimensions. Any
thing and everythign is resorted to
that will help bring back that license
fee tie the till an increase the profit.
Men do not go into this business on
phi ,lanthropic principles, or because
they are '"well disposed to the good Of
society" They are bound to make it
pay,
2. Unlicensed houses are not closed
1t is said that the man who pays $500
90 liceaSe is not likely tie tolerate an
unlicensed eroegery near by. Well,
it might be thought that man who
pays $50 90 license would not be like
ly to tolerate an unlicensed GROCERY
near by to steal his trade. But they
do not tolerate them, and they will, for
reasons satisfactory to themselves. Dr.
Herrick Johnson states the reasons
snccInctly thus:
a, The house or the liquor dealer
will not divide against itself Dog
will not eat dog" Whiskey will not
fight whiskey. Far wiser to "set a
thief to catch a thief, than saloon
keeper to catch asaloon keeper"
b The higher liquor dealers need
these low SALOONS to take their refuse.
The wash and rubbish of the so call
ed respectable places must go some
where. The dives are glad to receive
it. Your geutleman'y Lancaster boy
m y begin his drinking career at Cop
lands, but some years later he will be