Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-12
A COMMON SENSE WAY TO GET
TOGAL OPTION.

LOCAL OPTION.
The House Local Option Bill which W
have already published, and which omitted
cities of 5000 and over, Jared ill in the
Senate Committee which after toying Win
it apparently half in earnest and BALI IN
Jest, reported it to the Senate with Tue
| recommendation that it do not pass. 30
we may now consider the question up TO %
considered de nouo. We think all Demo-
Gratis having no more than the interest OF
| the general voter in the matter, are agreed
| that this legislature will bs unwlse II
| fails to pass Local Option Bill. Iht
sors in our opinion is the one the Local
| Option Alliance asks for and which H.
cludes cities. Such bill SD amended Ills
to make it possible of enforcement sbou
| be passed. For instance, Llil cicsl"
down the dlstll-ries simply 'mp"sr'h
ut this time, md why? Theinvestment III
this Stats ia The manufacture OF spirit
uous. vinous I'D malt liquOrs-Whlskey'
| brandy. bee and wine-is not far IRON
| 81 900, 900. these plants are suppressed
over the State. the Common wealth Will
, have to Pug t-r owners for them. Ihl
Is the latest dee sion i'll the US. Courts
Neither the T. easury' Of Virginia no
| the tax payers who gill it. can stand
| this draft. SO, however paradoxlcal IL
/, may appear We see no practical way for a
Local Option Bill to arrange it at pres ent
but to let che manufacture go free and
prohibit che sale of the product. Again st
this hard fact the moral argument is OF no
avail. Indeed tho ate IL pt " ,uld paraisz,
| the enforcement of local option itself; for
government whose money has been tax
en- out of its treasury to pay the losses In
plants, will have none to spend for enforce
| ment of the law, or ind eed for anything
else. The time to elapae between votes
on local option should also be fixed at a
| reasonable space. The cities ought to be
| included in the bill; for their exclusion
| makes it but sham. We propose to give
the Local Option Democrats everything
that they could get If they had the man
agement of the carrying out of the plans
upon itself the payment of million dol
lars for plants, they could no moc, run the
government 4ian those Demucn AIS who
oppose Local Option could. The Dill!
should also provide that where commu-
| nifty abolishes The sale of liquor and with
it the tag from it, it should pay from
| It's treasury TO the s ate the amount lost.
This will be, found necessary to maintain
Ghe gOveInMent. Some ardent adVOc ates
will say thu. if liquor was abolished tie
GRIMM i exp uses 8 tved would equal the
loss of license. This would ioe excellent
If it we're true, but it is no5. The whole
criminal charges Of the State last year
were $226,O00 while the i've me from
liquor license Was $318,O00. N Or can any
QUE familiar with The c.lminal expendi-
lures of the State doubt that a
very large proportion Of them. would
still exist even if there was not a drop OF
ilqupr used III the State. IN
To get local option bill some lie gislator
of conservative and practical views should
time bull which will not only satisfy
out also one that Can be enforced a tier II
is passed. While we have decided C. ,nyfc.
tiOns against local option as a rel needy,
still We desire those Democrats who want
TO vute On it TO have chance, and to have
he law 10 such shape that it will not
prove rope of sand when it is sough t to
De enforced. the best remedy for the pre-
valence uf drunkness is to adopt the Hi gh
License, which will keep the treasury flu H..
preserve the Sabbath luviolate. Heep liquor
away from minors, and thrDu ghuuJ the
5; ats keep the business every slnere in tue
hands of men who are interest," ed 10 the
enforce ment of the laws. High Licen Sc
has obtained in Illinois, is neing advtr-
Gated in Minnesota, aud is inG4ng friend
IN Kansas. Tue religious bodtes of n e ~
YORK are advocating it as a,gai ns1 I'D y
other mode, and it is destined 10 be Jh e
general, re as unable. aud effecGaoe mod e
Of lessening drunkeesess and dfVnkards q
this country.