St. Paul daily globe., 1885-03-17
HIGH LICENSE AND PATROL LIMITS
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To the Editor of the Globe:
Under the above title the Sunday Tribune
OF March 15 attempts to bolster up the present
city administration and retain the Republi-
can party in control of the municipal GOV
ernment OF Minneapolis, and if one single
item of the article alluded to is true, the
writer hereof fails to see it, Further than
this the article is not in the interest of true
temperance, prohibition or morality. The
change in the city government with large
number, was an experiment, and had the
true policy of the leaders in that move, viz /:
the establishment of "1ead line' and the
raising Of the license to $500, been truly de-
tined and set forth, the ''grand old
party' would have been retired to
the bleak and barren hills and
mountains of the state of Maine. The edi-
torial alluded to claims that we have only 274
saloons in the city, against SIT one year ago!
Had this wiseacre said that we have 2T4
licensed saloons at present, besides large
number unlicensed, he would have come
nearer to the truth. If the sale of whisky
and beer is right and proper in one portion
OF the city, it requires but grain of COM
mon sense to know that it is right and proper
throughout its borders, and the property
holders and real estate men will go
to the polls and emphatically proclaim
the fact. If it is right and proper for
men who are worth thousands of dollars
which they have made through the sale Of
liquors and beer to continue to do so, it
certainly is just as right and proper for the
honest German. Swede or Norwegian, whose
sales are small and consequently less harm
ful, to do so, and common decency, right
and justice say that it is wrong and contrary
to all principles of American liberty to fix the
license at price that excludes the poor and
weak, to add to the Golfers of the rich and
strong. The people
HAVE LEARNED A LESSON,
and it has been taught them at bitter cost,
against which the intrigue and lies that pre-
vailed last year will be pow
criess at the next election. The attempt to
make the dear people believe that the laws
are better enforced, or that the masses have
gained in morality, decency and good order
through the administration of the last term
will cause SMILE
The old timers remember an epoch in the
history OF Minneapolis, similar in many
respects to the present and known as the
Bracket, or as some termed it, the wet
blanket reign, and the more recent immi-
grants from Europe and from our own coun-
try have learned anew lesson in common
sense; and when the polls close on election
night, the Democratic rooster will flap his
wings and proclaim to the world that the peo-
pie of Minneapolis are not all fools, and that
intrigue and deception cannot prevail.
The writer hereof, in his business of
the selling and exchange Of real estate, gets
over the city pretty thoroughly and keeps an
eye open to not only the things that be but
to cause and effect, and hesitates not to say
that the big-hearted, generous and metropol-
itan doc Ames" lives and will continue to
live in the hearts of the people; and thous-
ands there be who were raised in large East
ern cities and know full well that he com pre-
hends and understands the difference be-
tween city of 125, 900 inhabitants and that
of a country village of 5000 or 10, 900 people.
There are countless thousands in this city
to-day who would if they could most gladly
put ''Doc Ames'' back to the mayorship of a
people who failed to know when they were
well off, and it viii be long, cold day when
the city of Minneapolis will prosper as it did
| under the so-called 'wide-open policy'' OF
''Doc Ames." REAL ESTATE.