The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-02-26

SIX times as much as the barroOms o
of New Orleans. returning a total o
$4,000. AS New Orleans has ten time
the population Of Birmingham, it ough
to receive on this basis 5000 600 yea
from its liquor licenses.
Saloons in Fort Smith have four Ii
censes to pay: United States SIS, STATE
| $500, county $500, and city 5000, max
ing total. with fee of $18, SI443. Two
thirds of the amount paid to the county
must go to the public schools.
Houston has 135 liquor saloons the
number of beer saloons not being re-
ported. 1t is low license and suffers
accordingly in revenue and crimes, due
to cheap and low-grade whisky. The
Texas legislature has now before it an
act providing for high license. This has
the support Of majority of the people,
and even of the Wholesale Liquor Deal
ers, Association, which has declared that
unless there is some legislation of the
kind the state is apt to go over to pro-
hibition. The disorderly element and
the groggeries and dives have been able
to hold up this measure and may pre-
vent its passage at the present session
of the legislature although even this is
doubtful It is conceded by all that they
will be able to hold off high license an
other year.
Little Rock collects its liquor license
monthly, payable in advance. 1t charges
SIS month for the privilege, making
the license for year 5000. In addition
to this the state and county license is
$500. SO that the barroons in the Ar
kansas capital have to pay $17oo year
to do business.
Louisville charges only $I5o license
for retail liquor dealers, has 800 saloons
and received during 1904 the sum of
$134,477 from liquor licenses With less
than half as many saloons as New Or
leans, its revenue falls only S6623 be-
hind what this city receives.
Memphis has a somewhat complicated
license system. 1t encourages the cor
ner grocery with saloon attachment, in
whose interest and that of the low grade
groggeries and barrel houses the low
license system prevails in New Orleans
A straight saloon pays a license of
5000 year, but saloon with a gro
Gerry attached pays only $3.50 On the
other hand the state and county licenses
are high. S82.75 a quarter, OF $s3I a
year, whether the saloo nhas grocery
attached TO it or not. There is charged
in addition a privilege tax of $1I.5o a
year As consequence the state (Ten-
nessee) and county (Shelby) get four
times as much from liquor licenses in
Memphis as the city The Memphis
saloons pay in all $4,000 in licenses, Or
nearly twice as much as those of New
Orleans, although the population of the
town is only one third that of the Gers
cent City. 49, -
Montgomery charges two licenses for
retail liquor dealers. Those operating
in the business section of the city, that
is, within the fire limits, pay $500 year !;
those outside the fire limits and in the
suburbs $500. There are thirty-fve Of
the first and sixty of the latter class,
yielding a revenue of $4,000 year.
The license for retail liquor dealers
in Paducah is $15o, but all saloon men
must give a bond of $1,000 that they
will keep a quiet and orderly house,
not permitting gambling Or, riotous and
disorderly conduct therein, and not vio-
Iating the Sunday law or other city ordi-
nances In the event of any such vio-
lation the bond becomes forfeited.
The city license for retail liquor deal
ers in Pensacola is only $500; but as
the state and county licenses are $3.50 it
brings the cost OF conducting the liquor
business in Pensacola up to $3.50. There
are thirty-nine barroons in the town,
paying a total of $4,000 for the privi-
lege of carrying on their business.
In Raleigh the dispensary system in
troduced by Senator Tillman of South
Carolina and narrowed from the Goth
enberg system of Sweden prevails The
government controls the liquor business
and sells all liquor. The total sales
for Raleigh by the state dispensary
amounted to $I75,ooo, for 1904, on which
there were profits Of $4,000. This is
divided equally between the city and
county school funds, all the revenues
derived from liquor going to the support
of the eudcatinal system. As Raleigh
contains one-twentietl1 the population of
New Orleans, if the saloons here were
conducted on the same basis as the
North Carolina capital they would yield
SI,ooo,ooo to the support of the public
schools
Saloon dealers in Richmond pay $3.50
to the city and $3.50 to the state. or 5000
in ALL There are 25o saloons, paying
$o4,z5o to the city and $oo,o5o to the
state. These saloons pay as much as