Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-09
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The above article is copied from the Su,.
| day Leader of February 18th. We fully
concur with the opinion expressed therein
We sincerely hope that every voter who
has the interest of our city at heart will sec
that the words, g For High License-Y Yes. .
are scratched, and that only the words
For High License No." stand at the bot
tom of the ticket Let us all give help
ing hand to defeat this unjust and Injurious
proposition by an Overwhelming majority
Appeal for High License.
The following appeal in favor of high IL
cense has also been issued by the High
License Association, and was distributed
last night throughout the city:
TO CITIZENS VOTERS MEN.
The high license organization is in the
interest OF regulation, economy, order,
JUSTICE
or prejudiced -
We have too many saloons. High IL
cense will reduce them about one-fourth-
no less. 1t does not affect drug stores or
sales by the bottle by grocers or anyone
else.
There are $50 bars in Sacramento. or one
to every 100 people, including men, women
and children.
There is one bar to every 16 voters.
Under high license, with one-fourtb less
bars, you will have one to every 1873 of
population, or one TO every p voters Is not
that enough? Labor earnings have to sup
port all the saloons. You all know this.
Do not be deceived. High Incense means
not one cent less than SIP, 500 year rev
enue to the city, in place of the SIS, 900 now
pad by saloons and bars.
The difference, $97 500, you now have to
pay in high taxes. Put the $97, 500 on IL
quor and take it from taxes on your homes
and household goods
Reduce taxes and you appreciate prop
erty values, invite producers. capital and
industries to come in, and they will come.
Make liquor pay your water rates, and
let water be free next year, as it ought to
be, and take off licenses from groeers,
butchers, merchants and all the suppliers
OF the necessaries OF life, and thus lessen
the cost of necessaries for your families.
Don't be deluded by the cry of stores ito
let" 1t is trick of the liquor dealers to
scare you. Put a saloon in every vacant
house and how much business have you
added to the city, or how much have you
increased the assessment roll? Not $500
GU know this is true. The saloon pro-
duces nothing of property, and you know
it.
They tell you high license won't shut up
the dives and low places. 1t will. 1t has
in Chicago, Minneapolis = everywhere
where tried. 1t shuts up'the lowest places
and makes the others more respectable
But if it don't do it, will the city be any
worse off then than now?
Our city taxes are 81 10, or 50 20, as or
dered by Court. Now, if bars paid the
S97 800 they should, in addition to the SIS
600 they pay now, instead of being taxed to
raise $4,000 for city purposes, you would
be taxed to raise only S92, 200, or less than
one-half, and this would reduce your taxes
from 81 10 to about 81 on each 500.
Taxpayers which is the best for our
city, $50 bars of all kinds, paying $4,000,
with taxes up to 81 20, or 1SS saloons with
the dens and dives wiped QUIT, paying
1880, and taxes down to one cent?
Vote for high license and accomplish
this, and fill the vacant stores, andp knock
down the high-tax wall that excludes pros
perity.
Be sure the word No" is scratched off
of your ticket before you vote