Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-07-06

boring communities, Is sufficient to make
the whole county smile.
The violations Of the law by the liQuoI
men unquestionaby cause the expense Of
prosecutions, but is not the primary cause
the will OF the purchaser TO have the liquor
ana his opinion that he has an innate right
TO spend his money as he sees fit, and that
no person or body OF men have right to
Interfere by laws or otherwise In matters
affecting only his conscience and which do
not Affect the property or other rights OF
other peopler However this may be, uni
Versal experience shows that so long as PEG
pie want liquors and they can be easily and
legally manufactured, there will be vendors
| on hand TO sell them and pocket the profits,
law or no law. II is therefore a matter OF
public interest that this traffic shall be reg.
ulated in some practical manner, and, at
the same time, that the "load" oil the tax.
payers who have to sustain the government
under which such things exist should be
lightened, II possible, by liquor taxes or Ii
cense lees
Licensed saloon keepers would, as mat.
ter OF business protection, break up un
licensed places and help TO enforce the
law TO that extent, and thus simplify the
situation, 80 that the officers Of the law,
backed by healthy public sentiment,
would be enabled To enforce the other re-
strictions OF law against them, at least such
has been the result in Morristown, N. j.
and elsewhere, and can see no reason why
the same results could not be had here.
Is X, q. wilfnlly misrepresents or is la
mentally ignorant as TO the disposition of
high license lees. There is general law
relating TO all the counties OF the State
which provides Tor certain uniform State
license fees wherever liquor is sold, viz: for
each traders license, that is for store keepers
who sell by the bottle and not allowed to
sell by the drink, SIS. Hotels and oyster
houses, $50 each. We could not have a
law for the county allowing license fees
lower than the above figures, for those
amounts must go 10 the State Treasury
from every saloon OF store allowed TO do
business In the State, but IL Is purely u local
matter with which the State has no concern
IS to how much the county desires TO have
fixed ~ q license Ice over and above those
figures. So that any delegation from this
county 10 the Legislature can have local
bill passed providing for high license for
the county, In addition TO the State license
fees, the money " be disposed of as the
county commissioners see flt, just as
easily as they could get bill through to in
corporate county town. Such high license
lcce Wucu duucu w Tue Savings III tuC Coot1
of prosecutions for violations of the local
option law would leave taxpayers better OFF
by at least $4,000 annually, which would
be reduction OF from ten to fifteen cents
on the 800 In taxation, with no more
spendthrills, no more paupers, TO more
drunkards and fewer saloons, fewer law
breakers, fewer sneaks, fewer liars and per
jurers and other products OF the Anti Sa.
loon League hobby than we now have.
b. X g. shows disposition 70 bellttle
what have to say, because | was not born
here. | may say that my ioreiathers were
among the first settlers Of the Province OF
Maryland, where they lived during period
OF about one hundred years; that the sec
ond and third generation OF them In this
country were among the pioneers who
cleared away the prmeval forests and first
settled and cultivated what is now Mont
gomery county prior TO 1913, and that while
my immediate ancestors subs, quently moved
south, | am OF the same blood as many OF
the Oldest families 10 this county and State.
II AN not greatly mistaken neither Is. Il
q nor any one else who has appeared
upon his side Of this question is native OF
this county. And furthermore the prohibi.
ton law, itself, is an importation from
Maine and its chief defenders hail IRON that
section. Let b. X. q. and Others read care
fully the report oil the operations oil the pro-
hibtion law In Maine by some OF her lead
ing Ministers Of the Gospel and other prom
lnent citizens before they cuddle her OIL.
spring To their bosoms.
w. II. LAMAR.