St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-02
PUT UP OR SHUT UP.
A Peculiarly Puzzling Predic-
ament Confronting Sa-
loonkeepers.
The Customary Month Of
Grace Not to Be Given
This Year.
City Fathers Who Favored It
in the Past Are Now
Opposed.
Interesting Sketch Of an Old
Minnesota Settler Re-
Gently Dead.

The joint committee on licenses did
not meet Saturday, as was published,
owing to the fact that the assembly and
board of aldermen were called together
for the purpose of apprOpriating money
TO the celebration of the completion of
the Great Northern railway. The board
committee OH license, however, consid-
cred, in an informal way, the resolution
in regard to granting the saloon men
an extension of time in the matter of
taking out their licenses until the LIST of
February.
Aid. Copeland and Zimmerman are
opposed to granting this privilege, al
though Mr.. Copeland heretofore voted
to grant it. The purport of this resolu-
ton was to the effect that no prosecu-
ton would have taken place until after
the 1st of February for the non-payment
of liquor licenses coming due in Janu-
airy. 1t is stated as a fact by those in
the trade that the year 1892 has been
the poorest and hardest of any in the
history of the saloon trade in this city.
1t is well known that out of the $50
persons who are paying $1,000 per year
TO the city of ST. Paul, at least 300 are
simply struggling for the payment OF
the revenue into the city, from the be-
ginning to the termination of the
year, it being impossible to lay
assistance from the brewers, who,
in many Instances, are advancing cash,
taking their money back in weekly pay
ments. There is no question that if the
council, or its committee on license, post
pOned the absolute demand or prOSecu-
ton for the payment of licenses to Feb.
l, it would have resulted in the city re-
ceiving at least s., 000 more, OH the low
est estimate. than it would by enforcing
the strict compliance with the license
law. Quite number will discontinue
business until spring, and then reopen
by paying one years license from date.
1t seems that Aid. Copeland and his col
leagues on the committee ought to have
seen at a glance that the business policy,
outside OF any consideration for any
body, would suggest that this extension,
which has been granted every year in
the history of the city, should have
been continued. There was $252, 600 due
the city Of st. Paul yesterday for the
licenses in January, and if the whole of
this was promptly paid on Saturday. the
city would receive for the use OF this
money until Feb. l, the sum of $40. 1t
seems that the license committees could
afford to have given some consideration
to the class who pay more into the rev.
enue of the city than any other. TO
Alderman Copeland belongs the credit
of having defeated this time-hon0red
custom. This is reform with a ven
geance.
The Joint committeewill Indebtedness
day at 7:30 p. H., and will probably
take this matter up Notwithstanding
Messrs. Copeland and Zimmerman's OPP
position, but it is thought it will be too
late then to do anything in the premises.
Paper manufacturers or excelsior"
manufacturers will do we'll to attend
the auction sale of a section Of Bass