The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-17
HIGH LICENSE LAWS.

INTERESTING TESTIMONY COMPILED
BY THE EDITOR OF THE PEOPLE.
Is HigI, License a Temperance Measure?-
Opinions of Liquor Dealers and Distil-
lers-The Chicago Grand Jury Make a
90 Startling ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Proof.
Peter E. Her, Distiller: II believe if it
were put to g vote of the liquor dealers
and saloon men (of Nebraska) whether it
should be for high license no license or
low license, that they would almost unani
mously vote for high license"
Chicago News (Rep.): The dives and
dens, the barrel houses and the thieves
resorts are as bad and as frequent in this
city today, after five years of high license,
as they ever were. Call high license what
it rs, an easy way to raise revenue from
vice, but let there be an end of indorsing
it as temperance or reform measure.
GOVERNOR FORAKER NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
The policy of taxation Governor Foraker is
Qicense) of the liquor one of the men who are
traffic is eternal and Identified to say what the
Republican party is ir Republican party means.
revocably committed to
Philadelphia Press Rep.): The liquor
people, as a rule, are men of sense, not
born fools, and they will not butt their
brains out against stone wall. They
know that high license stitch saves nine
Prohibition stitches.
Philadelphia Press Rep.): AS a rule,
the license court has followed the princi-
pie that one or two saloons in square
are necessary for the accommodation of
the public" The pregnant facts remain
that the licenses thus limited are i'm
mensely valuable to their possessora and
ought to be made to pay much larger
revenue to the city.
Chicago Grand Jury: "Our investigation
of the murder cases has impressed us to
the degree that we deem it our official
duty to call the attention of the court to
the following facts, in the hope that it
may have some little effect ON future
legislation regarding the liquor traffic:
We find that in every case of murder or
manslaughter Except one) the cause lead
Ing to the crime came direct from the
saloon. Furthermore, it came not from
the higher and better class of saloons, but
from those in the poorer and lower por-
tions of our city, and consequently from
the lower grade of saloons"
or the destruction of it's main features
there is no likelihood. 1t is possible that
some things that now seem to be faults in
the law will turn out to be errors of adj
ministration. Whatever be the fact,
when the fault or errors shall have been
corrected, it is a reasonable prediction
that it will prove in practice to be law
promotiye of good objects, working out
excellent results; and that it will have
for its warmest supporters q great ma
Jorlty of those engaged in the liquor
traffic. May 8, 1888.
st. Paul Daily Globe: The number of
saloons in Minnesota and the liquor bust
ness in connection with them is on a
steady increase. While diminishing the
number of saloons in the state at the time
the high license law first went into effect,
since then there has been reaction, and
the saloon business is more in numbers and
prospecting better than it was one year
ago.
Chicago Champion Liquor); It is q
mistaken, erroneous, nay ridiculous idea
that tho higher the license, tho lesser
the $50 caled) increased bad influence of q
saloon. There is just as much, nay more
ardent spirits consumed under high
license as moderate license. There are
moro and harder, doubtless moro revolving
cases of drunkenness OF any of the
gorgeous bars of our first class hotels than
in any twenty ordinary saloons.
M. Is. Hokuf, liquor dealer of Wilber
Neb.: High license brings the bust
ness to q legal standing Ny experience
IS that the law has not resulted in less
consumption, for when better class of
saloons is kept, under high license, the
business brings in better class of Gus
toners, and what little we might lose in
the outcast we gain in new trade"
Daily News Star; High license in Min
neapolis has probably cometo stay There
will no doubt be an effort made in the
next legislature to reduce the license fee
in the larger cities, but the country will
oppose it, and it can hardly succeed.
High license is the most effectual barrier
against prohibition.
Chicago Tribune (Rep.): The law has
now been in operation i'll every part of
Minnesota for some months, and the
saloon keepers think so well of it that not
one in ten of them has any fault to find.
Most of them are we'll satisfied because it
has, to some extent, improved their bust.
ness and its character.
Philadelphia Times (Dem.). The only
ettectual way TO halt positive Prohibition
IS for the friends of license to accept the
high license system in good faith.
Chicago Tribune (Rep.): The moder-
alton Of the advocates of high license
stands hptweon tho 1iC,,or MOI, 81 T,-1.