Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-24
Temperance Notes.

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York. there are nearly two-thousand
liquor saloons in N 7. City that are
Illegally located. being too near church
es or schooI-houses. Liquor-seilers in
that city pronounce this decision the
severest blow to their interests received
for years.
Rev Mr.. Bib, of Mexico, Mo-, is
making fight against the legalization
of alcoholic beverages. The main
ground of his contention is that, If tax
es and licenses on liquor were done
away with, whiskey could be sold for
twenty-five cents a gallon, at which
rate lit would become so common that
no one would drink it"
A Law relative TO the transportation
of Intoxicating liquors into no-license
cities and towns, soliciting sales there
in, etc., vent into operation in Mass
achusett7 April 10, 1897 1t is ex-
pected to remedy many of the hereto
fore existing evils. A bill to prevent
sale of liquor in public parks and
pleasure grounds has also become
law in the same state.
Recent statistics show that there are
555 churches in New York City and
1900 saloons. That is to say, there is
one saloon for each 240 inhabitants
and one church for each $3.50 inhabi-
tants, and there were 4, 600. 900 barrels
of beer consumed in the city last year,
which was at the rate of two and a
half barrels for each man, woman md
child.
4 writer in the ''Nation" reviews
the Maine Law and the operation there
of in the state of Maine. $50 far as
the great mass of the population is
concerned, he thinks" there is no
doubt that the general absence of open
saloons. ard the consequent rounda-
bout and belittling methods that must
usually be resorted to in order to get
liquor have greatly lessened the con-
sumption of ali kinds of liquors and
have tended to put the drinking habit
on the defensive; and no one will de-
ny that the removal of saloon influence
from community is a very great
gain to good order, morals and health.
There is, he adds, good ground for
thinking that social drinking has also
declined.
Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, propos-
es to substitute Temperance or Home
Saloons" as counter attraction to the
LIQUOR saloons. Good food and non
alcoholic drinks are to be sold. tx
pert chemists have been at work to
find temperance drink which will be
a substitute for beer. Reading and
toilet rooms are to be part of the in
stitution. A better name than 'Sa-
loon" will doubtless soon be found.
The Indiana Supreme Court has sus-
tanned the Moore temperance law
which permits city council to exclude
saloons from residence portions of a
CITY. This decision of the court gives
general surprise. not to say general
alarm, to liquor interests, as its effect
is likely to be widespread. affecting
hundreds of retail liquor houses scat
tered throughout the state.
The Amended Scientific Temperance
Law of Illinois has been taken out of
the hands Of the committee, reported
favorably for passage and placed upon
the calendar with high hopes of its be-
coming law.
The curative treatment of habitual
drunkards is likely to be taken up in
Austria. 1t is proposed to establish
retreats, where inmates shall be re-
ceived for two years. They may enter
of their own accord. or be placed there
under compulsion. The period of re-
tention may be curtailed to one year
the patient being released on system
resembling that of ticket of leave. II
a patient is shown to be incurable, he
may be retained for life.
The liquor traffic lives on its drunk
ards; not on the finished, incapable,
pauper drunkards, but on the. politi-
clan, the lawyer, the judge. the clerk,
the merchant, the mechanic and the
laborer; those who are not confirmed
drunkards, but who go regularly TO
the bar for their drinks during their
preparation for the gutter and the
chain gang, the prison and the gallows.
SUP'r PRESS WORK w, c. T. L.
Illuminating and Infamous"