Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-18

four banks occupying adjoining buildings
appeared before the License Commls-
sioners and objected to the opening of
saloons in their neighborhood, since the
presence of such establishments would
tend to depreciate the value. OF real
estate. The Directors of these banks are
among the leading men Of the city, and
with but two or three exceptions their
names appeared on the petition for the
re-submission of the Amendment. That
petition set forth the claim that pro-
hibition operated to deprecate real estate
values. 1t is now seen that these gentle
men are eating their words, for they ask
the license commissioners to put their
property under prohibition rather than
under license
The return to the license system has
throughout the State. The criminal
docket of the September term of the
Court of Common Pleas for Providence
is the largest in the history of the court.
Apart from few continued cases, this
docket embraces crimes and misdemean-
ors committed from June to September,
just about the time covered since the re-
peal of prohibition.
| In Providence, under the $500 high Ii
cense law there have been more than 600
applications for licenses. Under the old
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400 applications.
A Few More Particulars About tho High
License Saloons of Chicago.
CHICAGO, Ill.-The agitation against
the law-defying high license saloons of
Chicago continues. The terrible in
crease of drunkenness and crime in this
city since the $500 rate was established
and the growing insolence of the saloon
1,0r, l,o al L., ~ <1ok
the cry against the traffic is louder than
ever before. The chief point of attack is
the wide-open Sunday saloon. No wild
Western mining camp could present worse
| Sunday conditions than exist under the
| boosted high license measure Of Chicago.
The newspapers are paying much at
tention to the question. The Daily Neacs
makes the agitation against the lawless
Sunday traffic one of the chief features
of its columns, and each Monday devotes
its entire first page to vivid accounts Of
the evils of the liquor traffic in high Ii
cense Chicago, and to Arguments, appeals
men preach with great earnestness against
the evil.
The political influence of the liquor
dealers is stronger and more offensive
now than it was at any former time.
Five saloon-keepers have been nominal
ed for Aldermen in the ten new wards.
The liquor men support and glory in
the high license law. They think that
their large contributions to the revenues
of the city give them the right to defy
every restrictive law of God and man.
They black guard the people who are en-
| gagged in the crusade against Sunday
saloons. DR.. G. Frank Lydston of the
Personal Rights League said in q recent
speech:
IF they are going to close the saloons
we insist that the churches shall also be
closed, and that they shall not be allowed
to continue business at the old stand"
The Daily Meas, in an editorial in it's
issue for Sept. 2, said:
One looks in vain in the ranks of the
Personal Rights League for a representa-
tive expression of even an insignificant
minority OF our population. The futile
protest of few persons more or less di-
rectly interested in the success of the
liquor business is not indicative of the
pulse of the people at large. The Morn
ing Meas believes the saloon and the sa-
loon influence unmitigated evils. For
tunately for the stability of our institu-
tions, the kind of logic affected by the
league is mainly confined to communistic
bodies that are apparently incapable Of
distinguishing between true liberty of the
Individual and riotous license"
A Judges Arrangement of the $3.50
| Saloons of Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The license fee in
this city is $3.50 per year for each saloon.
But it does not exert any good influence.
The saloons are numerous, overbearing,
and law defying, and absolutely control
the politics Of the city. At the opening
of the September term of the Criminal
Court Judge White delivered charge to
the Grand Jury, in which he laid particu-
lar stress upon the terrible evils flowing
from the high license saloons, and the
fact, taught by much experience, that
they successfully resist all efforts to curb
them. The Kansas City Times, in it's re-
port of the Judges charge, says:
He spoke severely upon the violation
of the law by the iquor-dealers. He
desired the jury especially to examine
into such violations and return indict-
ments against all who have sold liquor
without a license bringing in a separate
Indictment for each ot1ense. The Judge
spoke with caustic bitterness of the AFRO
gance of the saloon keepers and the man
ner in which they assumed that they were
entitled to greater consideration in the
community than other business men.
He asked the hearty cooperation of the
Grand jury, and promised for himself
to maintain the agitation until saloon
men Were taught to know their place and
keep it,"
The alliance Record tells of a good
prohibition experiment. in Tyrone