Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-10-31

committed 10 due TO inteInperance,
aud statistics given show that the
revenue obtained from licenses per
hitting the sale o! intoxicating liquor
is insufficient to defray even the ex-
penses of the lower courts, while
great many OF these criminals are
held in Jail awaiting their trials 10
superior courts, from which courts
new trials are granted, and cases APP
pealed until the costs amount to
enormous sums, and consequently the
honest Merchant, Farmer and Work
ing man is taxed on the property they
own an additional amount necessary
to defray this enormous expense OF
prosecuting these criminals made by
the liquor business, and as long as
this business is fostered by the law
and permitted by the people crime.
drunkenness and debauchery will in.
crease and with them the taxes OF
the people.
A bulletin recently issued by the
Census Department gives the receipts
and expenditures OF 100 principal or
representative cities of the United
> I
States. Tie figures with regard to
the revenue from liquor licenses for
one year are as follows:
Revenue received sl1,7s2, 1907.
while the expenditures under the head
Of police amounted TO $17,8l7,435
and that of charitable objects, 81, &c.
90l estimating that rs per cent OF
these two items is due to drink (Which
! is a low estimA te) we find that in these
100 cities the liquor traffic cost one
aud one half times as much as il paid
In revenue while the ratio which the
liquor revenue bears Legitimate taxa
ton is surprisingly small being sur
prisingly small being only about 80
\ per cent In Philadelphia the criml-
J, nal record for 1891 makes the follow.
j. Ing interesting showing, number OF
= saloons, l,l72 paying a license OF
! $500 each amounting to s5S6,000,
: while the expense of the police de
partment amounted to 81 sol .S34.57,
+ leaving balance OF 81 ,2l5, S3457 II
J. police expenses TO be paid by the
J. taxation OF the people to say nothing
: OF the expense of following the mal.y
i criminals through the court to convi,
n ton. In Missouri the State Auditor 8
/, report shows that the state pays thr' q
/ dollars for every one it collects from
e the liquor traffic. This is what call
! oppressive taxation, and the question
! is how long will people submit to this
: abuse OF King Alcohol in order that
he may not only depress them finan.
cially, but ruin homes, destroy soci.
ETY., and spread crime and misery
through our land. Some may say,
why 10y licensing the saloon We do mol
foster and encourage it, but only seek
TO subdue and control it. All yes,
hut are we not giving it the protec.
ioi OF the law. and are not licenses
projections IN other matters? | ven.
ture that no one will contend that
the teachers license system is in re.
straint of education or the business
of school teaching, that the doctors
license is in restraint of the practice
OF medicine or surgery, nor that the
marriage license is in re.
slraint of marriage. These respective
license systems were each OF them
carefully established and carefully
guarded because the states desired
aud sought to promote and encourage
these enterprises for their develop
ment and the public good, and is not
the licensing of the saloon on th,
same principal except that IN the case
az tho salnnn uva ,tra li,.anSsp,Y an at,s
which believe we have no right Z,
do Evil of every form should b,
crushed and DESTROYED, not licensed
aud b; r5ored, and believe that tn,
time is not far distant when this liquor
license system will be declared uncon
stitutional, for the Supreme Court
OF the United States has held that M