The record-union., 1899-09-11
for revolt has been removed from the
Partisan mob.
LICENSE AND PROHIBITION.

Ne~NeAe~ CT 1lAC Last llOGCQ, 1t 10 IL w
said that as long as there is liquor
question these others for it's treatment
will be living issues. The Prohibition
lists have been getting decidedly the
worst of it in late years and especially
in the last two or three Now comes
Appleton Morgan, in the Popular Sci
ence Monthly" and argues that high
license has decidedly proved its worth
and superiority over prohibition as
remedial agency for the ills of strong
drink as represented by temptations to
drink
In the State of New York, says Mr..
Morgan, the high license regulation
has in two years reduced the selling
places for liquor 5,4S4, and increased
the revenue to the State SO, ,094 ,646 01,
while the number of arrests have de-
creased 22,6S9. In the city of New
York the reduction in places was 1,2O4,
and the increase in revenue So, 549.
S51.90. He adds that similar results
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of high license everywhere in the Unit
ed States For instance, in Chicago
the result Of exceedingly high license
was reduction of saloons in one year
200, and increase in revenue $1,250,-
600, and decrease in arrests 1,217.
From the standpoint of the prohibi-
tinYic+ L; or
more than this, that law puts the
screws upon the liquor traffic for pur-
poses of revenue, and without one
whit diminishing the consumption OF
intoxicants, or the evils and woes con-
sequent upon the consumption. The
only real remedy, therefore, the prohi-
bitionist argues, is absolute cutting
loose from any liberation of liquor
whatever, from every sort of compro :
mise with it. 1t follows that nothing
short of inhibition of the traffic will
accomplish that end. BY prohibiting
the sale of spirituous drinks, say the
prohibitionists, we put it without the
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substance, to squander their earnings
and make themselves and families pub
lie charges.
But the response to this made by
the advocates of high license is that
the prohibitionist calculates without
taking human nature into account;
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prohibition will not, cannot and never
has prevented them securing all they
want. But as a large part Of the
drinking is due to the frequent invi-
tation of the drinking place, reduction
of the number Of places, their strict
regulation and official supervision
lessons the temptation, and there is
less drinking and consequently dimin-
ished human misery and waste. Also,
as the liquor traffic is chargeable with
SO large a part of criminal cost to the
society, it is wise and just to put a
larger burden Of taxation upon it. Be
| sides, it is argued, with a limited num-
Der Of places and lessened competition
the dealer will naturally be disposed
to furnish better qualities Of liquor, and
hence less damage will be done.
Representing that side of the ques
ton, Mr.. Morgan cites proofs that pro-
hibition does not accomplish so much
of good as does high license and that
it really fails Of it's purpose where it
has taken the form Of law. He cites
Maine as an example of a strict pro-
hibition State, where it is not at all
difficult to procure liquor in any desired
quantity, and where drunkenness has
not been stamped out
Says an ex-Mayor of Portland: 81
went into Office perfectly free; think
| enforced the law impartially with all
the yigor / could control I
looked it all over to see what I had
accomplished; found that had driven
out Of the business one set of men, and
another had come in worse than the
first. I found that the young men
We're establishing clubrooms Not only
did they become drinking places, but
they brought in gambling and other
vice. While I was driving liquor out
| Of the ordinary shops was driving it
into houses and kitchens, where even
children dealt in it am
sorry to say it, but the law makes per-
jury alarmingly common; it opens up
an avenue for bribes. The
local authorities could not be trusted to
enforce the law. The price of liquors
has been lessened, and the quality is
worse. To those who Stunned
the open bars the apothecary shops
supplied liquor by the bottle as often
as desired. Then arose pocket
| peddlers, young men who loiter about
the street supplying customers from
the bottle with a drink known as splits
"a concoction of the cheapest alcohol
| mixed with dash of rum and coloring
matter, which produces a dangerous
form of intoxication. y At the
| city agency the question Medicine 2
and the answer Yes, was quite suffi-
| cient, and throngs of people We're con-
stantly waiting with TASKS to be filed. I"
Senator c. M. Shortridge has pur-
chased the San Jose Herald" and on
the Sth instant made announcement of
his assumption of control Under his
proprietorship the Herald will now be
a Republican paper. 1t has already
been enlarged and frightened. Tt viii.
be conducted as an evening paper and
the new helmsman announces that its
policy will be impartial, fearless and