The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-10-05


Il The Licenses.
Again the court has shot OF its IL
cense gun and fled to Dover and
Georgetown before 1t could see the
results OF Its shot. Now since the
smoke has cleared away wo find that
nine out of thirty applicants have been
refused license. Leaving out tho drug
stores that were licensed, about one
half applying for saloon and tavern
licenses were refused.
This is larger percentage than has
ever yet been turned down" The
most Of those refused at this court
had before been refused, some OF them
repeatedly, the court acting generally
on the rule that place once refused
should not be re-lincensed, subject of
course, to mitigating influences.
mo matter what the court does, how
bver It cannot please everybody, in
fact does not expect to please every
body, and there are the same COM
plants OF licensing unworthy places,
aud of refusing worthy places that we
are accustomed to hear at the heel Of
every court. No doubt some licenses
have been granted that should have
been withheld, and some withheld that
were more worthy than some granted,
but this seems unavoidable II the court
Is to be guided by the recommended
tions and evidence that come before
II. 1t Is undeniable that the strong
est kind of recommendations can be
got up for the most unworthy appll-
cants, fact which was fully demon.
strated last week. The court was al
most dumbfounded in one or two in
slancesby the avalanche of formidable
recommendation that poured in upon
It, asking 1t to license men who with
out any stretch Of veracity can be call.
cd confirmed lnebriates.
ii the court was to be governed by
such recommendations where would
1t be led to? Another question to be
asked Is this: What Is to be thought
of these recommendations They come
from many very worthy and good cIti-
zens whose veracity has never been
questioned. They are intended as a
guide to the court, but instead they
mislead the court, and this is why so
many unworthy places get license.
Another effect these promiscuous and
general recommendations have Is
that 1t depreciates the influence OF the
people before the court to such an ex-
tent that the Court in many cases ig-
nores them. 1t did this in more than
one instance last week. The court un.
der all circumstances should be made
acquainted with the real standing and
facts OF each case coming before it In
dlsinterested and truthful manner
and then it would have better show
for acting for the best interests OF the
community.
Though our remarks are Intended
TO be general, we hope we may be par
doned for depressing SO far as to dep.
recate the Influences that led to the
licensing of saloon new one by tho
'tsJ "a NAAR SbAiSA Va iAlLl luh Du'
Pont streets, while the Board of Edu,
cation has nearly completed a schoo
house for the education OF colored
children on another corner opposite
We know nothing about the influence
that was exerted to get saloon al
this corner which might have been
unobiectionable In any place olse, but
the idea OF planting saloon on an op
posite corner to a new school will not
create favorable impression upon O
moral and order loving community
It has always been a popular senti
ment that morality and education
wsnt hand, in hand but an attempt
seems to be made In Wilmington t
make the saloon and eduta alton 20
hand in hand. We do not believe the
will run smoothly together