St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-28

BltilDgame, Lee, Stephen,
Dyar, Pratt, Turrell,
Edmond, Reese, Valentine,
Fiddes, Saettre, Webster,
Flynn, Simpson, Wigley,
Hendrickson, Sheehan, r.Speaker-25
Messrs. Durant and Warner first voted no,
but when they found the bin had passed
changed to aye, and after the result had been
announced Mr.. Durant gave notice that .
would move to reconsider at the proper time.
In explanation of his vote Mr.. Hendrickson
said be had intended to vote for the bill, but
after the explanations he should be obliged
to vote no.
The bill increasing the salary of the attor-
ney general from 81, 500 to 80, 500 was OPP
posed by Mr.. Myers, and most earnestly
supported by Mr. Colester, in which he was
followed by Messrs. Brown, Evans, Murphy
and Turrell. After which the bill was passed.
with but eight negative votes, viz: Messrs.
Lee, Michner, Mcguire, Mcmillan, Myers,
Nachbar and Reinhard.
HIGH LICENSE.
The third bill on general orders of the house
last evening was the pure, unauthorized,
clean-cut high license bill introduced by Mr.
Turrell, fixing the license at not less than
$500 The bill having been read Mr.. Dyar,
q 4iiGuL VI liiC iiGaSGiC, OLCAGu az 1lllCtO-
ment Incorporating the local option feature
Of the existing law, and also authority to
municipalities to prescribe the limits within
liquor shall be sold in such towns,
and moved its adoption He said the adop-
ton of the amendment would remove one
objection many friends of high license had
to the bill as introduced, aud also made it
conform in that respect to the bill the senate
hs1 r,acsa6 d7,riror tho aftarDoon
Mr.. Daniels, in speaking in favor of the
amendment, went quite largely into the
general merits of the bill, which he hoped
would be passed without other amendments,
and especially appealed to friends Of the bill
to prevent an amendment making the
license less than $500. The bill was intended
to be a high license bill pure and simple.
There was, he said, an almost
universal Gem md for such legislation. He
could not see how any man with the inter
ests Of society at heart could oppose the BILL
1t might be said that high license would not
stop drinking whisky. True, but it would
PUT A STOP TO RUM HOLES
at every four corners for the Generalization
and destruction of the youth of the land, and
the general Impeachment of the people.
It would drive out and close numberless sa-
looms in both city and country. Every father
and mother in the land was directly inter
ested in the accomplishment of such result.
The measure, in his opinion, was by far the
most important which had been be-
fore the present legislation much more
50 than either the grain inspection or railroad
bill, which had occupied 50 much of the
thought and time of members. He was
aware there was au organized and powerful
opposition to ia power that had been felt
in every representative district in the state,
and he feared that there were some members
so pledged to that influence that they
would vote against the bill
while in their hearts favoring
it. This influence was successful in defeat
ing high license at the session of two years
ago and it was making herculean efforts TO
accomplish the same at this. The influence
Of the organization might be appreciated
when the fact was understood that here in
ST. Paul there were nearly GOO saloons to
only some forty churches. From such
a condition Of society he felt like crying out
in tue language Of the Episcopal prayer book,
'Good Lord deliver US" and to that end he
appealed to all friends OF temperance, of
morality, Of happy and prosperous homes, to
stand by the bill and help
MAKE IT A LAW.
The amendment was then adopted.
Mr.. Licuau, speaking to the bill, said there
was no doubt there was great diversity of
opinion as 10 the proper manner of manag-
ing the liquor traffic. But there was no
question as to the fact that Minnesota now
had most excellent laws for that purpose.
They gave the people option 10 say
whether liquor should be sold or not,
10 Tx the 5license at such sum as
they should deem most advisable, prohibited
selling to minors or habitual drunkards
The law was all right, the trouble was that il
was enforced. And the Prohibitionists did
not want it enforced. Their aim was TO
keep up the agitation until they had secured
actual prohibition. The passage Of this bill
would not satisfy them, but two years hence
would again find them besieging the legisla-
ture for
A STILL HIGHER LICENSE,
and finally absolute prohibition would be de-
manded. The fact that experience had
demonstrated that prohibition did not pro-
hibit would make no difference. With them
the governing idea was rule or ruin man
must 20 To heaven their way or be damned
They were the elect sent into the
world 10 impress their personalities
on the world aud all who diff
fered from them must be cast out in utter
darkness. Bat he would remind these men
that human nature was the same to-day it
had always been. Man loved liberty-libertv
of action and couscieuce-and any ATTEMPT
to uniustly curtail the enjoyment OF such
liberty led 10 rebellion. He honestly be-
lieved the best temperance measure
would be 70 make beer and wine free. Mr..
Lienau then referred to the cost Of the liauor
traffic. and said temperance advocates on
this point always
IGNORED THE FARMER
who raised the grain and the grapes
so largely consumed in the business,
and The thousands upon thousands Of
men engaged in it whose business il was
proposed 70 destroy without ompensa tion.
This was not justice, but robbery, aud the
misery It would create was beyond computa-
ton. The bill was also unjust in that it dis
eliminated against the poor man, the
keepers OF small, quiet places, many
81 whom were iucapacitsted for man
ual labor, and in favor Of the
rich. 10 In fact drove the traffic into a few
gildes saloons, into which the masses would
be caihercd. and hy the very contact thus
brought about intemperate drinking would Re
encouraged. Man from the earliest
times had been accustomed to stimu-
lauts and would have them. Oppo-
sition or restrictions calculated 10 de-
prive them Of the qualification Of their de-
sires liz this direction
ONLY wHETTED THE APPETITE
and siren -;heuei the determination 70 salts
IS It. That a decrease Of saloons did not
lead 20 decrease in drinking was
forcibly experienced in Minneapolis
and s.. Paul. In Minneapolis, under
the operation Of the high license law,
the police records showed that there were