Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-23
THE CALIFORNIA WAY.
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THE CALIFORNIA WAY.
According to the California Municl-
ralities, a publication devoted to the
Interests of the cities of California
there is a strong tendency on the part
of the municipalities of that state tt
minimize the influence of saloons IL
their respective communities by plac-
| ing a limitation upon the number OF
licenses that may be issued for the pur-
pose of dispensing intoxicating liquors
at retail This tendency appar-
entity does not partake OF temperance
reform movement against liquor drink
ling or toward prohibition. but appears
Ito be strictly directed against saloons
Tine difficulties in the way of any abo-
llition of the drink habit ere confessedly
too great. but the abatement of the
number of saloons is at once practical
and feasible.
California just now is endeavoring tc
increase its population by attractions tc
sober and Industrious immigrants. III
| this connection the California paper
rotes that in past years the eastern
settlers have been attracted TO the
| southern part of the state. and whats
| ever may be the relating cause 'ano
| effect. il is in the southern part of the
state that the no saloon" policy most
generally prevails, and i is also a fact
| that the no saloon towns are at the
present time showing tie most rapid
gains in population. TIE tendency to
shut out the saloons seems to be accen-
| tuated by the desire of the different
migrants to make the best showing for
| law and order. something usually dis
connected with an excessive number OF
open saloons.
| In Los Angeles a saloon limitation
policy has been prominent for con-
siderable time and the value of liquor
licenses has vastly creased with the
| practical monopoly effected by such q
policy. Fewer saloons means more
business for the limited rumber of IL
censed drinking places. The terror OF
the revocation OF the tight TO sell be-
comes correspondingly greater. More
rigid rules may be enforced and the
limitation pushed to the entire abolition
of the lower class of grogshops.
| Saloon limitation. While ii makes
greater business for The monopoists
who NAV be granted licenses TO sell. as
1 sists in the Limitation of the amount OF
liquor Consumed. The business is cen
traliZed and the temptation to drink Is
not held out at every turn and stree'
corner bv an open bar. The working
man who needs every dime OF has
weeks wage does not find dozer
foundations to spend part or all OF !,
Ibefore he reaches home. II, instead OF
100 saloons there are but ten IN town
OF 10000. drinking place is harder &c
| find and the temptation to Indulge Is
| CORES DOnGlnSlS ieSSei.-i. ~ -
whisky monopolists who are paying fol
their privilege will guard their revenue
by the suppression of unlicensed re-
sorts and afford the spectacle of liquor
sellers prosecuting infractions of liquor
regulations.
The California way seems both sensi-
ble and reformatory. 1t IS a step toware
cleaner government of the liquor traf-
fio and worthy of attention by the mu'
In;cipalities of other states. 1t Is prac-
tically a monopoly of liquor sales
controlled by cities AMI approaches the
dispensary system. The citizen who
Insists en- his personal liberty to drink
lEouor over a bar Is deprived of none OF
his alleged persona. rights; he has on
lIy to seek to be able To find while the
lother citizen to whom the saloon Is ar
eye-sore will find Il possible to avoic
lit. Above all Il Will remove the con-
slant temptation to drink offered by 8
raultitude of drinking places and by
rendering vice less common have ar
excellent effect on public morals. Why
irot try the California way?