The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-18

avery house IL . .spsak easy having Its
biggest trade on Sundays
s But, fifth Is il q step toward prohi-
bition2 Az has been shown above. IT
does not accomplish partial prohibition
by reducing the number Of drinking
places, in reducing the amount OF drunk
enness o crime, in combining the places
to business centers, or in making them
respectable. Then how can il be . step
toward prohibition? It must be by an
educative effect upon the voters. Il
must be by teaching them in the school
of experience that high license is q fail
ure as q temperance measure. IT this
lesson must be learned, it may as we'll be
begun. Let us see what some competent
people say on this subject.
The following from the Christian En-
quifer, of New York, is plain talk on
this question:
MANY friends of High License are
coming to the conclusion that the r
Utopia is q Sahara. They thought
that High License would SO weaken the
liquor traffic that the cause of temper
ance would obtain substantial advantage.
While not advocating license in any form
or under any circumstances, we have
been willing to see High License tried,
because 80 many good people believe in
it that we knew the best way would be to
let them try it and learn its futility by
their own experience.
Further IN it says:
well, gentlemen Of the High License
Utopia, what next? You have asked us
to wait until High License could be fully
tried, and you come back to US with the
broken fragments of your beautiful sys-
tenn in your hands, and with sad and rue
| fri rnnfononoa COW tn na sVt didn't
work."
The Brooklyn Citizen says:
1T is becoming apparent that the High
License system is q delusion as q means
Of stopping or checking the use of
liquor"
The Philadelphia Press, the most
prominent Republican and High License
organ of Pennsylvania, had an editorial
in its issue for January 6, in which it
said:
All accounts agree that High License
is q failue in Pittsburg."
Nebraska ought to give some valuable
testimony on this point, for she is the
original High License State, having had
q fee Of from $500 to ST. 0 for about ten
years.
Wilbur F. Bryant, a leading lawyer of
the State a in speaking of the Slocum
law: ut is a greater evil with us today
than the old low license law, or than free
whisky would be. Speaking as a crimi.
nal lawyer and official, I say that since
the passage of the Slocum law, SO pei
cent. of the criminal cases that have
come under my observation have beer
the result of strong drink. The Slocun
act has produced prostitution. The mel
who think that high license engenderI
/ morality fall into a mistake"
Rut lot no hove O widor v;aw IF tho n ooo
Nearly 800 ministers in all parts Of tn
!, State have been asked to tell what the,
t know of high license. A few reptile
must answer for all, for they are practic
J ally all of the same tenor:
j. A. High, Beemer, says: High Ii
: cence is a failure. Prohibit"
ii E.. Holland, Beaver Crossing-4T TIL
evil increases. l say prohibit"
]. A. Chaplin. Doniphan-High licens
{ does not regulate"
!, c. NJ. Shepherd, Dorchester-High Ii
cense fosters the saloon and crime.
o. Egglesten, Hooper-High license i
a failure in Nebraska.
E. II. Chaplin, Lincoln-High licens,
has been proved inadequate.
: 6. Does high license drive the saloon
list out of politics? Omaha, Neb., hal
$1,000 license fee and three saloon.
keepers in the Council. Chicago, Ill.
has $500 license fee and eleven liquol
men in the Council. Detroit, Mich, hal
$500 license and eleven saloonkeepins
Councilmen. The small city of Ottawa,
ILL.,, has $500 license fee and eight Coun.
cilmen, who are or lately have been
saloonkeepers. Even President Harriso,
has appointed more saloonkeepers to of.
fee than he has clergymen.
, But the seventh and finally: Do tn,
, wise and l~ong-headed liquor men favo
high license or oppose it? Let Their
speak for themselves.
q The Philadelphia Hotel and Saloon
9 keepers Journal-4The liquor dealer
> do not oppose high license"
Metz 6 Bro, Brewers and Maltstert
= . no injury to u business. =
!, ! We Mt first made a bitter fight against ii
o: enforcement, but since it is we'll enforce
. we would not do without it"
~ Nebraska Distilling Co.-"High licens
has not hurt our business; it does not de
crease the consumption of liquor an
beer"
= The Besley Waukegan Brewing Co
- of Chicago-"We can not see that hie
license lessons the consumption G
liquor, and it strengthens the legal stand
ing Of the business"
Henry H. Shufeldt & Co., distillerI
of Chicago-1We think the trade in an
State should favor high license and jus
restrictions, and that is the only solver
Of the question"
.PeterE. Her, President Willow Spring
Distillery, Omaha, Neb.-@In all m
g twenty years experience here previous t
high license and since, I believe high Ii
8 cense is one of the grandest laws for til
liquor traffic, and for men interested 6
= we'll as the people OF large there is"
Chicago Western Brewer --Withot
high license Illinois, Nebraska and Mil
nesota, and perhaps Missouri and Wis
consin, would be as likely to favor prt
hibition as Iowa. Now, there is no dan
ger of prohibition being adopted in an
of the States named, as long as a licenf
law is maintained and fairly enforced"
Our Country's Wonderful Progress.