New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-21
HIGH LICENSE IN ILLINOIS.


The law was passed in 1888, fixing uniform
license for liQuor-selLng ut $500 and for beer
selling at $50 The result in the city of Chicag 90
was to increase the revenue from 81 95.49O Al in
! $50 to 81, ,021 II in 1887, although there
were only 33 more saloons, the population having
greatly increased.
In Springfield the capital city the number of
saloons has been decreased from 1877 to Oh. and
the revenue increased from sl5,7OO to $4,000.
The total number of saloons in the State has
been reduced from 5000 to 5000, with cor
responding increase in the amount of revenue.
This increase Of revenue has served to reduce the
burden of taxation and to enable many places TO
pave bcautify, police and improve in all respects
their order and sanitary condition. Report of
Hon. w. ii. Harper to the Illinois Legislature.
HIGH LICENSE IN NEBRASKA.
The law was passed by a Republican Legis-
lature in ISL, fixing the license fee at $1,000 in
cities and $500 in towns. The Hon. Amasa Cobb,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ne
braska. says of the law: It's salient features
that it produces revenue tends TO confne the sale
of liquor to worthy dealers, abolishes degrading
resorts, prohibits drunkenness produces temper
ance and supernduccs total abstinence. 1t there
fore lessons crime and drunkenness and in my
Judgment promotes the general welfare" Judge
Pound writes " In my opinion, the high license
in this State has been decided success Mayor
Broatch, Of Omaha, writes that in 1850 the
amount OF license fees collected from i52 sa-
looms, or one saloon for every 200 inhabitants,
was s22, 953 81. That in 1876, under the
High License law the amount collected from l44
saloons. one saloon for every 429 inhabitants,
was 81 *. 900. This amount was paid into the
school fund, thereby lessening taxation.
THE TAX LAW IN MICHIGAN.
In May, 1875, law passed taxing the
liquor traffic as follows: For retail, $500; for
wholesale retail $500. and for the sale of
malt liquor only. $500. In 1874 there were
G,444 saloons in the State, one for every 207
inhabitants In 1882, six years after the law
went into OBJECT. there were but 3,46l, or
one for every $50 people, instead of
s,966 saloons, had their number increased
in proportion to the population And in 1886,
ten years after the law was passed, its effect
had been to put into the county treasures,
s9,166 21.-Detroit Free Press, March %, Iss7.
HIGH LICENSE IN MISSOURI.
The minimum license fee is $3.50 and the
maximum $1,000, the county courts having dis
erection within these limits. In Ii 1885, the amount
raid into the State Treasury by saloons was
S157,477. Into county treasures, Sl,3S21 16.
The rates vary greatly, as each county and town
can determine the amount. The town of Canton
derives an income of S4,OS2 from four saloons;
Fulton, S7,415 from four saloons, St. Louis
County, s2s, 236 from fifty-one, and St. Louis
City 1851, 900 from 1,6ls.-St Louis Repub-
lican.
The Controller Of the City of St. Louis reports
that the license fees collected in 1878 under the
old law were S149,0:5; and that in 1856, under
the High License law. they were s739,51l %.
Governor Marmadul:e, in his annual message
to the Legislature of 1884, states that prior to
the passage of the law there 1901 saloons,
yielding revenue of s547,32O 80. and that in
$50 there 2 $50 saloons, yielding revenue
of 1,842,20S.
HIGH LICENSE IN MINNESOTA.
The law went into effect on the LIST of july
ss7, fixing the minimum liquor license of 81, 900
in all other Places the local authorities having
power TO increase the amount The law has been
in operation for year and its effect has been
to reduce the number of saloons in the entire State
from 2 SOC to 1897, and TO increase the total
income from about $780, 600 TO S1,l0O 900, "A
balance of about $3.50, 600 in favor of High
License. This addition TO the income Of the
counties is expended in public works and i'm
provcmcnts, schools and the like, thus esscning
taxation by just so much. The law has rot only
decreased saloons and drunkenness and Increased
the revenues OF most Of the counties, but IL has
tended TO increase the purity of elections par
ticularly in the towns and villagcs.-St. Paul
Pioneer Press AuouSt